Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Rundunar Sojojin Ruwa ta Amurka ta aika da rukunin jirgin ruwa zuwa Scapa Flow don shiga tare da Babban Jirgin Ruwa na Burtaniya, masu hallaka zuwa Queenstown, Ireland, da jiragen ruwa don taimakawa wajen kare jiragen ruwa. An kuma tura wasu rundunonin sojan ruwan Amurka zuwa Faransa. Birtaniya da Faransanci sun so sojojin Amurka da aka yi amfani da su don karfafa sojojin su a kan gwagwarmaya kuma ba su ɓata jirgi ba a kan kawo kayayyaki. Janar John J. Pershing, kwamandan rundunar sojan Amurka (AEF), ya ki ya raba rukunin Amurka don amfani da su azaman kayan cikawa. A matsayin banda, ya ba da izinin yin amfani da regiments na Afrika-Amurka a cikin ƙungiyoyin Faransa. Harlem Hellfighters sun yi yaƙi a matsayin wani ɓangare na sashen Faransa na 16, kuma sun sami ƙungiyar Croix de Guerre don ayyukansu a Château-Thierry, Belleau Wood
, da kuma Sechault. Ka'idar AEF ta bukaci yin amfani da hare-haren gaba, wanda daular Birtaniya da kwamandojin Faransa suka yi watsi da shi saboda yawan asarar rayuka da ya haifar.