Pershing, John

The Redstone was designed to deliver its nuclear or high explosive payload a distance of more than 150 miles. Its successor, the Pershing, is much smaller, lighter, and more mobile The Lance system enables the fielding of a nuclear capability with improved field readiness and greater versatility over the Sergeant, Honest John and Little John systems... 

J.J. Pershing, Final Report of General John Pershing, US Government Printing Office Washington DC (1920), p. 77. 

In his final report to Congress in the aftermath of the First World War, General John J. Pershing stated Whether or not gas will be employed in future wars is a matter of conjecture, but the effect is so deadly to the unprepared that we can never afford to neglect the question. 8 The First... 

The likelihood of such a weapon causing panic among military personnel decreases, however, when the leaders and troops become better educated regarding these agents. As General John J. Pershing wrote after World War I Whether or not... 

Pershing JJ. Final report of General John J. Pershing. Annual Report. Vol 1, Part 1 1919. Quoted by Brown FJ. Chemical Warfare. A Study in Restraints. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press 1968 623. 

When General John J. Pershing faced the task of organizing the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France in the summer of 1917, he decided to place responsibility for all phases of gas warfare in a single military service, and he recommended that the War Department at home do likewise. On 3 September 1917, the AEF established a centralized Gas Service under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Amos A. Fries. 25,26 The new organization had many hurdles to overcome. The troops had virtually no chemical warfare equipment of U.S. design and relied on the British and French to supply equipment from gas masks to munitions. 

General John J. Pershing summed up his opinion of the new chemical warfare shortly after the conclusion of World War I ... 

United Nations Library, Geneva League of Nations Archive Library of Congress, Washington DC Pershing, Gen. John J., papers Leahy, Admiral William D., papers... 

We would like to thank Nancy Biest, Minhtien Tran, Barb Reich, Mike Prinsen, Jay Pershing, Steve Sims, John Greenplate and Margann Miller-Wideman for biological support, and Hideji Fujiwara and Tom Solsten for performing the HRMS analyses. 

Pershing, J.J., 1920. Final Report of General John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief American Expeditionary Forces. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 

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