PERSHING LEADS VICTORY PARADE DOWN 5TH AVE
New York City (JFK+50) On March 25, 1919, General John J. Pershing* led a victory parade of 25,000 soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force's First Division along Fifth Avenue from 101st Street to Washington Square here in the Big Apple.
The New York Times reported that the General...
"was kept at almost continual salute by the tributes...from both sides of the avenue."
*John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (1860-1947) was born in Laclede, MO 2 months before Lincoln's election as POTUS & died 1 month after my birth. He was educated at Truman State University & the US Army War College. JJP was commander in chief of the AEF in WWI.
SOURCE
"The World War I Victory Parade Up New York City's Fifth Avenue Was Held," by Andrew Glass, September 10, 2012, The Naples Museum Of Military History, www.naplesmuseummilitaryhistory.org/
General John J. Pershing
Chief of Staff
US Army Portrait
