In the following days, Pierre and a dozen subordinates who had rushed over from France and North Africa continued negotiations with the U.S. military.
What were they negotiating?
Naturally, it was about weapons and equipment.
It must be said, the Americans were pretty generous.
At least to a certain extent, with intervention from higher-ups, the U.S. military provided enough weapons and equipment for an entire army. Although Pierre looked down a bit on the M1 rifles and M1 carbines provided by the U.S. Army, who would refuse weapons when offered? We're talking about fifty or sixty thousand pieces of light and heavy weaponry.
However, the Americans could also be stingy. When it came to artillery, they cut corners. They claimed it was according to U.S. Army organization, but they directly canceled the 155mm howitzers. The M2 105mm howitzers became divisional artillery, and as for regimental artillery, it was the M1A1 75mm mountain guns.
