Allied Forces resolve argument over whether to deploy US troops on the Western Front

On this day in US history, a conference of Allied military leaders argued over whether or not to deploy US troops on the Western Front in World War I on May 2, 1918. It took two days of arguments, but leaders who were already entrenched in World War I decided on a compromise that would send 650,000 US troops to Europe by the end of May. But once the war ended in November, over 2 million American soldiers would serve on Western European battlefields, and about 50,000 servicepeople would lose their lives in the war.