[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by judsonhamlin

There were no U.S. troops in Europe before WW1 and, in fact, our army was fairly small - third world nation sized - until 1917. If the equipment predates 1918 (and I'm no expert on that) then they would be hand-me-downs or just old. The attitude towards our occupying forces actually wasn't too bad. To the Germans, we were better than the French, and fraternization wasn't unusual.

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jeff