In a Strange LandAmericas involvement in WWI marked its first major entry into European politics. The final cost of that involvement required the U. S. to supply a force to occupy part of the German Rhineland after the war. The force provided was first known as Third Army and then later as the American Forces in Germany (AFG). It consisted of the best divisions in the American Army. With a starting strength of a quarter million doughboys, the Americans marched to the