McAndrew, James, MG

Fallen

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Service Details

Last Rank
Major General

Last Service Branch
Infantry

Last Primary MOS
1542-Infantry Unit Commander

Last MOS Group
Infantry (Officer)

Primary Unit
1919-1922, 00GC, Command and General Staff College (CGSC) Course

Service Years
1888 - 1922

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Personal Details

Home State

Pennsylvania

Year of Birth
1862

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Casualty Info

Home Town Hawley	Last Address Not Specified

Casualty Date Apr 30, 1922
Cause Non Hostile- Died of Illness, Other Injury	Reason Unknown, Not Reported
Location District Of Columbia	Conflict World War I
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, Virginia	Wall/Plot Coordinates Site 2519

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Mexican Service Campaign (1911-1919)/Pancho Villa Expedition (1916-1917)
From Month/Year March / 1916	To Month/Year February / 1917
Description The Pancho Villa Expedition—now known officially in the United States as the Mexican Expedition but originally referred to as the "Punitive Expedition, U.S. Army"—was a military operation conducted by the United States Army against the paramilitary forces of Mexican revolutionary Francisco "Pancho" Villa from March 14, 1916, to February 7, 1917, during the Mexican Revolution 1910–1920. The expedition was launched in retaliation for Villa's attack on the town of Columbus, New Mexico, and was the most remembered event of the Border War. The declared objective of the expedition by the Wilson administration was the capture of Villa. Despite successfully locating and defeating the main body of Villa's command, responsible for the raid on Columbus, U.S. forces were unable to prevent Villa's escape and so the main objective of the U.S. incursion was not achieved. The active search for Villa ended after a month in the field when troops sent by Venustiano Carranza, the head of the Constitutionalist faction of the revolution and now the head of the Mexican government, resisted the U.S. incursion. The Constitutionalist forces used arms at the town of Parral to resist passage of a U.S. Army column. The U.S. mission was changed to prevent further attacks on it by Mexican troops and to plan for war in the eventuality it broke out. When war was averted diplomatically, the expedition remained in Mexico until February 1917 to encourage Carranza's government to pursue Villa and prevent further raids across the border.