Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yayin da Sojojin suka faɗaɗa yayin tattarawar lokacin yaƙi, Cronkhite an nada shi don ya jagoranci rukunin 80th, ƙungiyar da aka kirkira tare da waɗanda aka ɗauke su daga Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, da New Jersey. Ya shirya da kuma horar da sashen a Camp Lee, Virginia, kuma ya jagoranci shi zuwa Faransa a matsayin wani ɓangare na Ƙungiyar Ƙungiyar Amurka. Ya kasance a cikin umurnin a lokacin da ake gudanar da ayyukan yaki na 1918, ciki har da yakin farko na Somme.
, Yaƙin Saint-Mihiel da Meuse-Argonne Offensive.