“Bullets, Bandages and Beans:” A Talk on United States Army Logistics in France in World War I

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

History

4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Historian Peter Belmonte joins the podcast to discuss his latest collaboration with Alexander Barnes on lesser known aspects of the United States’ participation in the First World War. The story of how the AEF was supplied with “bullets, bandages, and beans” is just as fascinating as the tales we’ve often heard from the front.

Book link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63389152-bullets-bandages-and-beans

Johnson Hagood’s “The Services of Supply: A Memoir of the Great War” Link: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Services_of_Supply/4LoBAAAAMAAJ?hl=en

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The Hey, folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast.
0:55.0	Joining me today is Peter Belmontie, a historian who collaborated with Alexander Barnes on their fourth and latest work, bullets, bandages, and beans, United States Army Logistics in France, and World War I.
1:12.6	Alexander is unfortunately unable to join us this afternoon, so sorry, sorry we missed you, man.
1:21.6	Alexander Barnes, however, was born in Niagara Falls, New York, and grew up in an Air Force family. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1974, and then joined the Army National Guard in 1977, retiring as a Virginia Army National Guard chief warrant officer in 2004.
1:39.7	He retired from the U.S. Army at Fort Lee in July 2015 after 30 years of service as an army civilian,
1:46.2	including deployments in Desert Storm, Bosnia, and Kuwait.
1:51.7	He has a master's degree in anthropology and has authored or co-authored nine U.S. military history books.
1:59.8	He is currently serving as the command historian for the Virginia National Guard.
2:05.6	And then we have. Pete Belmonte is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and veteran of Operation Desert Storm.
2:14.6	He holds a master's degree in history from California State University, Stanislaus,
2:20.7	and has written several books, articles, and reviews.
2:24.0	He's written four books with Al Barnes, bullets, bandages and beans,
2:29.1	United States Army Logistics in France and World War I,
2:32.4	United States Army Depot brigades in World War
2:35.2	Playball, doughboys in baseball during the Great War, and forgotten soldiers of World War I,
2:42.3	America's immigrant doughboys. He is currently documenting the history of Italian immigrants in the
2:48.5	U.S. military in the 19th century.
2:53.0	So, bullets, bandages, and beans is a book that years ago would likely not have peaked
2:59.7	my interest. And that is because I was just an amateur history enthusiast with an eye
3:06.2	only towards the combat side of conflicts.
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