This picture from the 1921 edition of the Cavalry School annual "The Rasp" illustrates how between the two world wars the cavalry came to prefer a thoroughbred type horse.
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I read somewhere that in WWI the French complained that the U.S. Army used only artillery horses and not the long-legged cavalry horses the French were accustomed to. Does this reflect that change?
Couvi wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:00 am
I read somewhere that in WWI the French complained that the U.S. Army used only artillery horses and not the long-legged cavalry horses the French were accustomed to. Does this reflect that change?
Seems like an odd complaint, given that the AEF was only using horses (for all intents and purposes) for drawing their artillery. The majority of cavalry was either planted on the US southern border, or converted to artillery before shipping out to France.
Couvi wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:00 am
I read somewhere that in WWI the French complained that the U.S. Army used only artillery horses and not the long-legged cavalry horses the French were accustomed to. Does this reflect that change?
Seems like an odd complaint, given that the AEF was only using horses (for all intents and purposes) for drawing their artillery. The majority of cavalry was either planted on the US southern border, or converted to artillery before shipping out to France.
Indeed the only full cavalry units in the AEF that wasn't organic cavalry drew its horses from a French veterinary hospital.