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The Battle of Saint - Mihiels was a major ___MASK58___ battle fought from 12  15 September 1918 , involving the American Expeditionary Force ( AEF ) and 110 , 000 French troops under the command of General John J . Pershing of the United States against German positions . The U . S . Army Air Service ( which later became the U . S . Air Force ) played a significant role in this action . The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was an armistice during the First ___MASK69___ between the Allies and Germany  also known as the Armistice of Compiègne after the location in which it was signed  and the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front . It went into effect at 11 a . m . Paris time on 11 November 1918 (" the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month "), and marked a victory for the Allies and a complete defeat for Germany , although not formally a surrender . The Germans were responding to the policies proposed by U . S . President Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Points of January 1918 . The actual terms , largely written by French Marshal and Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies Ferdinand Foch , included the cessation of hostilities , the withdrawal of German troops to behind their own borders , the preservation of infrastructure , the exchange of prisoners , a promise of reparations , the disposition of German warships and submarines , and conditions for prolonging or terminating the armistice . Although the armistice ended the actual fighting , it took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty , the Treaty of Versailles . ___MASK58___ ( WWI or WW1 ), also known as the First World War , or the Great War , was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918 . More than 70 million military personnel , including 60 million Europeans , were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history . Over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result of the war ( including the victims of a number of genocides ), a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents ' technological and industrial sophistication , and the tactical stalemate caused by gruelling trench warfare . It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history , and paved the way for major political changes , including revolutions in many of the nations involved . General of the Armies John Joseph " Black Jack " Pershing ( September 13 , 1860  July 15 , 1948 ) was a senior United States Army officer , most famous as the commander of the American Expeditionary Force ( AEF ) on the Western Front in ___MASK58___ , 1917  18 . He rejected British and French demands that American forces be integrated with their armies , and insisted that the AEF would operate as a single unit under his command , although some American divisions fought under British command , and he also allowed all - black units to be integrated with the French army . The Meuse - Argonne Offensive , also known as the Maas - Argonne Offensive and the Battle of the Argonne Forest , was a major part of the final Allied offensive of ___MASK58___ that stretched along the entire Western Front . It was fought from September 26 , 1918 , until the Armistice of 11 November 1918 , a total of 47 days . The Meuse - Argonne Offensive was the largest in United States military history , involving 1 . 2 million American soldiers , and was one of a series of Allied attacks known as the Hundred Days Offensive , which brought the war to an end . The battle cost 28 , 000 German lives and 26 , 277 American lives , making it the largest and bloodiest operation of ___MASK58___ for the American Expeditionary Force ( AEF ), which was commanded by General John J . Pershing . American losses were exacerbated by the inexperience of many of the troops and tactics used during the early phases of the operation . Hart Goodloe ( January 31 , 1875 - March 21 , 1954 ) was a surgeon in the First ___MASK69___ who served at Saint - Mihiel and the Meuse - Argonne Offensive . Hart Goodloe was born in Danville , Kentucky in 1875 . He is a graduate of University of Louisville ' s School of Medicine and a member of Phi Chi Medical Fraternity ' s Alpha Alpha - Gamma Chapter serving as Grand Presiding Senior ( President ) of the Grand Chapter from 1900 - 1901 . On August 13 , 1917 he enlisted in the U . S . Army at age 42 . He was commissioned to the rank of major and was a surgeon in the army . By 1918 he was sent over to France and saw action at the Battle of Saint - Mihiel and Meuse - Argonne Offensive . He was discharged from service on March 18 , 1919 , and resided in St . Louis , Missouri . His war documents were destroyed in a fire at the St . Louis archives . He died at Veterans Hospital , Biloxi , Mississippi , on March 21 , 1954 at age 79 . In 2007 a novel titled `` Goodloe - Blood Stains the Fury of the Coming Storm '' by Patrick Bauer was published based on the life of Hart Goodloe . ISBN 978 - 1 - 4257 - 8225 - 2 ( hardcover ) ISBN 978 - 1 - 4257 - 8216 - 0 ( softcover ) available November 2007 . The ___MASK38___ was the final period of the First ___MASK69___ , during which the Allies launched a series of offensives against the Central Powers on the Western Front from 8 August to 11 November 1918 , beginning with the Battle of Amiens . The offensive essentially pushed the Germans out of France , forcing them to retreat beyond the Hindenburg Line , and was followed by an armistice . The term " ___MASK38___ " does not refer to a specific battle or unified strategy , but rather the rapid series of Allied victories starting with the Battle of Amiens .