After the withdraw of the U.S, Army from Europe and related deployments such as Siberia, there were very few American Army expeditionary deployments overseas. A rare deployment was a small force of about 1,000 men stantioned as part of the China Station in Tientsin, China. They were first deployed just after World War I (1923). Tienstsin was a stratehic port in norther China. This was the port from which an Allied expeditionary force relieved the foreign embassies in Pieking during the Boxer Rebellion (1900). The deployment was we believe to protect shore facilities of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet. They were also to impede Japanese seizure of Chinese ports. A similar force was briefly briefly deployed from the Philippines Islands, at the time a U.S. Commonwealth, to Shanghai when the Japanese attacked the city (1932). The U.S. Army Tientsin was finally withdrawm (1938 after the Japanese invaded China proper and launched the Second Sino-Japanese War. In addition to these U.S. Army deployments, the U.S. Marine Corps was also used for epeitionary deployments, primarily in the Caribbean. These deploymnts ceased with the Roosevely Administration's Good Neighbor Policy (1933). The largest U.S. Army deployment was in the Philippines Iskands, but this was of course obstesibly American territory. Another Army force was deployed to guard the Panama Cana, which was also at the time U.S. territory. The primary importance of these deployments was the operational experience gained by the officers nd men of the small peace-time Armu. These were the men that would constitute the profesional core of the massive U.S. Army that would fight Wirld War II against Axis forces. [Stewart, pp. 56-57.]

Sources

Stewart, Richard W. General Editor. American Military History Vol. II The United States Army in a Global Era, 1917-2003 (Center of Military History, United States Army: Washington, D.C.. 2005). Washington, D.C., 2005.

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