America's Great War 1917-1918

PBS America

12:00 AM to 1:10 AM

Monday 10 November

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The presence of American soldiers - nicknamed the 'Sammies', that is sent by Uncle Sam) - on French soil during the Great War is virtually unknown. Yet, two million arrived in France between 1917 and 1918 to fight on the bloody battlefields alongside French and English troops