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"Just Give Me a Reason"
Single by Pink featuring Nate Ruess
from the album The Truth About Love
B-side
"Are We All We Are"
Released
February 26, 2013
Format
CD
digital download
Recorded
2012
Genre
Pop
Length
4:02
Label
RCA
Songwriter(s)
Pink
Jeff Bhasker
Nate Ruess
Producer(s)
Jeff Bhasker
Pink singles chronology
"Try"
(2012) "Just Give Me a Reason"
(2013) "True Love"
(2013)
"Try"
(2012) "Just Give Me a Reason"
(2013) "True Love"
(2013)
Nate Ruess singles chronology
"Only Love"
(2012) Only Love2012 "Just Give Me a Reason"
(2013) Just Give Me a Reason2013 "Headlights"
(2014) Headlights2014
Music video
"Just Give Me a Reason" on YouTube
"Just Give Me a Reason" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Pink, featuring fun.'s lead singer Nate Ruess. The song was chosen as the third single from Pink's sixth studio album, The Truth About Love (2012). Jeff Bhasker assisted the artists in writing the song and is also the producer. "Just Give Me a Reason" is a pop ballad about the desire to hold on to a relationship even when it appears to be breaking down.[1]
The song received critical acclaim, with many critics deeming the song as the best track within the album. Prior to its release, the song charted in many regions due to strong digital sales, which was the reason for its release. The song attained worldwide success, topping the charts in twenty-one countries including the United States, Austria, Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Iceland, Ireland, Lebanon, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden, as well as peaking within the top five in more than ten countries as United Kingdom, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Israel, Norway, Switzerland and Spain. In the US, it became Pink's fourth number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. It also became her third number-one on the Billboard Digital Songs chart after "So What" (2008) and "Raise Your Glass" (2010).[2] "Just Give Me a Reason" has sold more than 4 million digital downloads in the United States.[3]
"Just Give Me a Reason" has won the Billboard Mid-Year Award for Favorite Hot 100 No. Single.[4] "Just Give Me a Reason" garnered two Grammy Award nominations for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Song of the Year at the 2014 Grammy Awards, where Pink and Nate Ruess performed the song after a trapeze-accompanied rendition of "Try."
The music video for "Just Give Me a Reason" featured Nate Ruess as well as Pink's husband, motocross racer Carey Hart, in a romantic setting which resembles an artificial marsh. The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Collaboration in 2013.
Contents
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1 Background
2 Composition
3 Critical reception
4 Chart performance
5 Music video
5.1 Background and release
5.2 Synopsis
5.3 Lyric video
6 Credits and personnel
7 Track listing
8 Charts
8.1 Weekly charts
8.2 Year-end charts
9 Certifications
10 Release history
11 See also
12 References
Background[edit]
American singer-songwriter Nate Ruess co-wrote and provided vocals on "Just Give Me a Reason".
"Just Give Me a Reason" features Nate Ruess from the American band Fun. Originally, it was just a song writing session but Pink realized that she needed someone else to sing the song with her because she thought that it was more of a conversation than a one perspective song. She asked Ruess to do it with her and got him to do the song as a duet.[5]
Pink said "I was like, 'no, this is a story, this is a conversation this song' - it needs the other perspective whether it's a guy and a girl, or two girls or two guys. 'I came in and tried to convince him that this was how the conversation was going to go and it was interesting you know, he was like 'I'll just do the demo cos I don't know about duets' and I totally tricked him into doing it, and I am so glad I was able to. 'I think now he's very happy that he did it, I think it's a beautiful song and I'm really, really proud of it.[6]
Nate Ruess told MTV News: "Writing the song was a whole different learning experience and was really fueled by the fact that Alecia [Pink's real name is Alecia Moore] is so strong and independent and so very much herself. At the end of the day it's so hard to argue against her because what she does is always so great.[6]
The song is about the desire to hold on to a relationship even when it appears to be breaking down.[1]
Composition[edit]
"Just Give Me a Reason" (2013)
A 24-second sample of Pink's "Just Give Me a Reason", featuring Nate Ruess.
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"Just Give Me a Reason" is a pop ballad[7] written by both artists and produced by Jeff Bhasker, who was also the lead producer for Some Nights, the second album from Ruess' band, fun. "Just Give Me a Reason" starts off with a simple melody played on the piano, as Pink starts to sing the first verse and chorus, the latter of which introduces drum machines and bass. The second verse is then sung by Ruess, and the rest of the song is sung as a duet. The song ends with a piano solo, similar to the intro. It has a duration of four minutes and two seconds.[8]
According to the sheet music published on Musicnotes.com, "Just Give Me a Reason" is written in the key of G major with a moderate tempo of 95 beats per minute. Pink and Ruess' vocals span two octaves in the song, from G3 to G5. The verses of the song follow the chord progression G I C Em I C I G, the chorus is G I D7/F# I Em I Bm D7, while the prechorus, the intro, and the outro follow the progression of Em A/C# I D I repeated three times before C G/B I Am, and with a variation into the second chorus.[9]
Critical reception[edit]
The song received acclaim from contemporary critics. Jody Rosen from Rolling Stone referred positively to "Just Give Me a Reason" as the best track within the album, "in which Pink dials back the drama, letting the melody and sentiments do their work".[10] Sharing the same opinion, Amy Sciaretto from PopCrush said she liked the "soft" side of Pink and that she and Nate Ruess "fit like a jigsaw puzzle, a lovely yin and yang."[11] Bill Lamb from About.com said: "The genius behind 'Just Give Me a Reason' is that it is a powerful, well written song that is allowed to shine by a simple, spare Jeff Bhasker production and straightforward vocals from Pink and Nate Ruess of the group Fun. The song lays out the emotions behind a wish for reconciliation in a relationship but doesn't provide easy answers. The simple piano based production ensures that every word is clear and the emotional tone of the voices is heard."[12]
Lewis Corner from Digital Spy said: "As her latest single 'Just Give Me a Reason' demonstrates, Pink isn't afraid to band with pop's current flavour - and in this case it's Fun.'s Nate Ruess. "I let you see the parts of me/ That weren't all that pretty/ And with every touch you fixed them," Pink reveals over a folksy piano line, before she bursts into a heart-warbling chorus. The final result may echo fun.'s own anthemic hits, but Pink never fails to make a song her own, even when sharing the spotlight."[7] MusicOMH said that "Pink's other side – the impassioned songwriter – is showcased on Try, which demonstrates that she has a voice that not enough people give her credit for. Similar territory is trodden in Just Give Me a Reason, a duet with fun.'s lead singer Nate Ruess (which sounds more like a fun. song than a Pink song, funnily enough), but it’s these moments that show Pink at her most formulaic."[13]
Common Sense Media (CSM) said, "Pink, singer from band fun. team up in sweet love tune."[14] Billboard also gave a positive review of the song saying this duet with the band's lead singer Nate Ruess (produced by "We Are Young" helmer Jeff Bhasker) would fit right at home on "Some Nights": "Although it's a little jarring to hear Pink's raw, live vocals paired with Ruess' Auto-Tune, it's ultimately a less-schmaltzy version of those male/female duets found at the end credits of every 80s movie."[15] HitFix said One of the highlights is her duet with fun.'s Nate Ruess, who co-wrote "Just Give Me a Reason".[16]
Chart performance[edit]
In the United States, "Just Give Me a Reason" topped the iTunes chart on March 19, 2013 and remained atop the list for more than 10 consecutive days, becoming Pink's third Digital Songs number one hit. In early April, it fell to the runner-up position to Bruno Mars's "When I Was Your Man" only to return to the top two days later and stayed there for the entire month of April 2013. Its success in the digital market was reflected on its Hot 100 position, making it Pink's fourteenth Top 10 hit in the USA during the charting week ending March 30, 2013, then pushing it further to the top to #5 and then to #3, and finally to the top of the chart. The song stayed 15 weeks on the top 10.[17][18] The Truth About Love is therefore Pink's first set to achieve more than two Top 10 hits since Missundaztood. On the issue dated April 27, 2013, it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Pink's fourth chart topper and Nate Ruess' second overall, after "We Are Young" with his band Fun. It also was Pink's longest time spent as a lead artist at number one, as it ruled for three consecutive weeks. The song is the seventh best-selling song of 2013 with 4,321,000 download copies sold in the United States for the year.[3]
As of January 2014 the song has sold a total of 4,405,000 downloads in the US.[3] With "Just Give Me a Reason" soaring to number one on the Adult Top 40 chart, it became Pink's eighth number one song there and her tenth top ten overall. Pink currently ties the record for most number ones on that chart, with Katy Perry and Maroon 5 with each having eight. "Just Give Me a Reason" also reached number one on both the US Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs, Adult contemporary chart and Digital Songs.
In Mexico the song has debuted at the number one, it has been certified 3xPlatinum, denoting sales of almost 180,000 copies in the country.
The song attained worldwide success, topping the charts in twenty countries including the United States, Austria, Czech Republic, Iceland, Ireland, Lebanon, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden, Australia, Canada as well as peaking within the top five in more than ten countries as United Kingdom, Belgium (Flandes)(Volonia), Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Israel, Norway, Switzerland and Spain. On the week of October 6, 2012, "Just Give Me a Reason" debuted at number 106 in the US and at number 75 in Canada. That was the same week that the second single of the album ("Try") debuted at number 56. "Just Give Me a Reason" has also debuted at 65 in Switzerland and 168 in France.[19]
In the United Kingdom "Just Give Me a Reason" stayed in the Top 10 for 11 weeks. It has been certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, with sales of almost 800,000 copies making it the eighth best-selling song of 2013.[20]
In Australia, the song debuted at number six on the week of February 17, 2013, before peaking at one the following week. This makes The Truth About Love Pink's first album to score two number-one singles in the country, the first single being "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)".[21] This is also Nate Ruess's first number-one song but third overall since his band Fun had two songs that went number one. In the Netherlands, the song went to number one on 23 February 2013, marking it Pink's very first Dutch number one song in her 13-year career. In France, the song went to number seven in March 2013, making "Just Give Me a Reason" Pink's third top-ten song in the country and has sold a total of 119.000 downloads. In Canada, the song went to number one on 13 April 2013, making Pink's second number-one single in the country after "So What". It has spent seven consecutive weeks at number-one on the Canadian Hot 100, becoming her longest reigning number-one single. It was the third best-selling song of 2013 in Canada with 499,000 copies sold.[22]
According to the IFPI, by the end of the year, the single had sold 9.9 million copies. The song was the 4th best-selling song of 2013[23]
Music video[edit]
Background and release[edit]
The video was directed by Diane Martel and photographed by Jeff Cronenweth.[24] It was filmed in November 2012. Pictures from the video were posted on Twitter. In the pictures, Pink is lying in bed with her husband Carey Hart. Pink was extremely disappointed by the leak, so the photos were deleted immediately after.[25] The official video was released on February 5, 2013.[26] A behind the scenes video was later added to Pink's VEVO channel, where Pink confirms that the video was shot in a Los Angeles swimming pool.
The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Collaboration in 2013. The video is nominated for Video of the Year on the People's Choice Awards 2014.
Synopsis[edit]
The video shows Pink lying on a mattress in the middle of an artificial marsh, with fog surrounding the set and a star-studded background. The video is highly symbolic and its storyline is indirect, with references supporting the song's theme, including a teddy bear, a TV floating on the surface of water, the water itself and a wall made of wood in the background. The scenes include Pink's solo mattress scene, another with Nate Ruess shows the two singers singing the song in a white, blank set, and a third scene showing Pink and her husband Carey Hart embracing and diving.
Lyric video[edit]
An official lyric video was published on Pink's official VEVO account in September 2012. It features stars that sparkle in the background. The lyrics shown are sung by both Pink and Ruess.[8]
Credits and personnel[edit]
Pink – songwriter, vocals
Nate Ruess – songwriter, vocals
Jeff Bhasker – songwriter, producer, keyboards, synthesizer and music programmer
Anders Mouridsen – guitars
John X. Volaitis – recording at Earthstar Creation Center, Venice, California
Tony Maserati – mixer
Justin Hergett – assistant mixer
James Krausse – assistant mixer
Credits adapted from The Truth About Love album liner notes.
Track listing[edit]
Digital download[27]
"Just Give Me a Reason" – 4:02
German CD single[28][29]
"Just Give Me a Reason" – 4:02
"Are We All We Are" (Live from Los Angeles) – 3:32
Year
Ceremony
Award
Result
2014
56th Grammy Awards Song of the Year Nominated
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance Nominated
MTV Video Music Awards Best Collaboration Won
Best Female Video Nominated
Best Editing Nominated
Teen Choice Awards Choice Love song Nominated
People's Choice Awards Favorite Song Nominated
Favorite Music Video Nominated
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (2013)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[30] 1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[31] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[32] 2
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[33] 3
Brazil Hot Pop Songs[34] 1
Brazil Hot Pop Songs[34] 1
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[35] 1
Czech Republic (Rádio Top 100)[36] 1
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100)[37] 44
Denmark (Tracklisten)[38] 3
Europe (Euro Digital Songs)[39] 1
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[40] 4
France (SNEP)[41] 4
Germany (Official German Charts)[42] 1
Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)[43] 12
Iceland (RÚV)[44] 7
Ireland (IRMA)[45] 1
Israel (Media Forest)[46] 2
Italy (FIMI)[47] 1
Lebanon (The Official Lebanese Top 20)[48] 1
Luxembourg Digital Songs (Billboard)[49] 1
Mexico Ingles Airplay (Billboard)[50] 1
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[51] 1
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[52] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[53] 2
Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100) [54] 1
Portugal Digital Songs (Billboard)[55] 1
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[56] 1
Slovakia (Rádio Top 100)[57] 1
Slovenia (SloTop50)[58] 4
South Africa (EMA)[59] 10
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[60] 5
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[61] 1
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[62] 2
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[63] 2
US Billboard Hot 100[64] 1
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[65] 1
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[66] 1
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[67] 1
US Rhythmic (Billboard)[68] 39
Year-end charts[edit]
(2013)
Position
Australia (ARIA)[69]
6
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[70]
6
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[71]
15
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[72]
18
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[73]
3
Denmark (Tracklisten)[74]
7
France (SNEP)[75]
16
Germany (Media Control AG)[76]
12
Irish Singles Chart[77]
5
Israel (Media Forest)[78]
13
Ireland (IRMA)[79]
5
Italy (FIMI)[80]
5
Moldova (Media Forest)[81]
5
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[82]
7
Netherlands (Mega Single Top 100)[83]
4
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[84]
4
Philippines (Over-All Top 20)[85]
1
Slovenia (SloTop50)[86]
9
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[87]
19
South Korea (Gaon International Chart)[88]
183
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[89]
13
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[90]
8
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[91]
8
US Billboard Hot 100[92]
7
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard) [93]
2
US Adult Pop Songs (Billboard)[94]
2
US Radio Songs (Billboard)[95]
5
US Hot Ringtones[96]
8
US Pop Songs (Billboard)[97]
11
IFPI[23]
4
(2014)
Position
Slovenia (SloTop50)[98]
47
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[99]
6× Platinum 420,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[100]
Platinum 30,000*
Belgium (BEA)[101]
Platinum 30,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[102]
6× Platinum 499,000[22]
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[103]
Platinum 30,000^
France (SNEP)[104]
Gold 75,000*
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[105]
Gold 33.024[105]
Germany (BVMI)[106]
3× Gold 450,000^
Italy (FIMI)[107]
3× Platinum 90,000*
Mexico (AMPROFON)[108]
3xPlatinum+Gold 210,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[109]
3× Platinum 45,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[110]
Gold 20,000^
Sweden (GLF)[111]
3× Platinum 120,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[112]
2× Platinum 60,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[113]
Platinum 830,000[114]
United States (RIAA)[115]
2× Platinum 4,405,000[3]
Venezuela (APFV)[116]
2× Platinum 20,000^
Streaming
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[117]
3× Platinum 5,400,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[118]
Gold 4,000,000^
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
Release history[edit]
Country
Date
Format
United States February 26, 2013 Mainstream radio[119]
Hot AC radio[120]
Italy March 15, 2013 Contemporary hit radio[121]
Germany April 12, 2013 CD single[28]
United States April 15, 2013 Adult Contemporary radio[122]
See also[edit]
List of best-selling singles
List of best-selling singles in the United States
List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 2013
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2013 (Canada)
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2013 (U.S.)
List of number-one singles of 2013 (Australia)
List of number-one hits of 2009 (Austria)
List of number-one hits of 2013 (Germany)
List of number-one hits of 2013 (Sweden)
List of number-one hits of 2013 (Switzerland)
List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 2013 (U.S.)
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Josh Stewart
Stewart at the 2012 New York Comic Con, October 14
Born
Joshua Regnall Stewart
(1977-02-06) February 6, 1977 (age 41)
Diana, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1999–present
Spouse(s)
Deanna Brigidi (2000–2014)
Children
2
Joshua Regnall Stewart (born February 6, 1977) is an American actor best known for his role as Holt McLaren in the FX TV series Dirt and as Detective William LaMontagne, Jr., in Criminal Minds. He was also cast as Brendan Finney in the final season of the NBC TV series Third Watch and as Barsad in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.[1]
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Acting career
2.1 Early career
2.2 Starring television roles
2.3 Feature films
2.4 Directorial debut
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
5 References
6 External links
Early life[edit]
Stewart was born in Diana, West Virginia,[2] the son of Margie and Charles Regnall Stewart. His father was a high school physical education teacher as well as a former pastor of the First Baptist Church in Webster Springs and Holly River Baptist Church, and is now pastor at the Redeeming Grace Baptist Church in Webster Springs. His mother is a sixth grade teacher at Webster Springs Elementary.[3] Stewart first attended West Virginia Wesleyan College, then transferred to West Virginia University, where he studied business.[4] After graduating from WVU, he moved to New York to pursue acting.[5]
Acting career[edit]
Early career[edit]
Stewart got his start doing local theater at the Landmark Theatre in Sutton, West Virginia, and eventually moved to New York City to study at the T. Schreiber studios.[2] He was a company member of the 13th Street Repertory Theatre. He continued his theater in Los Angeles, performing in Light Bulb and Beacon alongside Robert Forster and Brooke Shields.[2]
Stewart appeared as an extra in The WB series Dawson's Creek episode "To Green, With Love". In 2003 he filmed a pilot for a Western for ABC entitled Then Came Jones.[6] In the pilot he played the character of Bill Jenkins.
Stewart later appeared as Sean Cleary the CSI episode "Bad to the Bone", which aired on April 1, 2004. That same year, he also appeared in a commercial for Levi's 501 Original jeans.[7] Stewart currently has a recurring role in Criminal Minds as Detective William LaMontagne, Jr., SSA Jennifer "JJ" Jareau's boyfriend and later, husband.
Starring television roles[edit]
Stewart got his break when he was cast as Brendan Finney in the final season of the NBC series Third Watch.[8] As Finney, he played the son of IAB captain Cathal "CT" Finney.
After Third Watch was cancelled, Stewart started filming a movie entitled Lenexa, 1 Mile (released on DVD as Full Count), alongside William Baldwin, Michael Beach, Jennifer Hall, Timothy Ryan Hensel, Chris Klein, Austin Nichols, Jason Ritter, Michael Rooker, and Paul Wesley.[9] This was also the directing debut of Jason Wiles.[10] After filming wrapped, Stewart began filming a new television series starring Courteney Cox Arquette entitled Dirt, for the FX Network, where he played the character of Holt McLaren.[2] On June 8, 2008, Cox Arquette announced that Dirt had been cancelled.[11] During the 2010-2011 season, he appeared as Joshua in ABC's No Ordinary Family.
In 2017, Stewart starred as Solotov on the second season of the USA Network thriller drama Shooter.[12]
On February 26, 2018, it was announced that Stewart will join as a series regular in the second season of Netflix's The Punisher.[13]
Feature films[edit]
Stewart made his mainstream feature film debut in 2008's Curious Case of Benjamin Button playing the character of Benjamin's crewmate, Pleasant Curtis. Also that year, he appeared in The Haunting of Molly Hartley in the role of Mary Hartley's teacher, Mr. Draper. In 2009, he had his first feature film starring role, in the horror movie The Collector, playing the part of Arkin, a man attempting to rob a house to make enough money to pay off his wife's debts to loan sharks. In 2010, he starred, alongside Jamie-Lynn Sigler in the movie Beneath the Dark, (originally titled Wake)[14] inspired by the novel The Shining.[15] He appeared in Christopher Nolan's final film in his Batman Saga, The Dark Knight Rises as Bane's right-hand man, Barsad.[16][17][18] He appeared as the main protagonist in the 2012 webisodes, The Walking Dead: Cold Storage, which are based on the popular television show The Walking Dead. In 2013, Josh finished filming his directorial debut, The Hunted, in which he also stars. Stewart reunited in 2014 with Director Christopher Nolan as the voice of CASE in the sci-fi epic Interstellar. The same year Stewart was cast in the Disney film The Finest Hours.[18]
Directorial debut[edit]
Josh recently completed filming his directorial and writing debut, The Hunted. He co-produced the film along with The Collector producers Brett Forbes and Patrick Rizzotti. The 'found footage' film revolves around Jake (Stewart) and Stevie (Ronnie Gene Blevins) who want their own TV show. In an attempt to grab the media's attention, both Jake and Stevie head to the dense, secluded woods in West Virginia, armed with only their bows and a camera, to find the biggest guy they can. However, as the sun sets over the mountains, they soon realise they are not alone in the woods and something supernatural is hunting them instead. The film screened at TIFF[19] and eOne Films have since picked up the North American distribution rights.[citation needed]
Personal life[edit]
Stewart has two children with Deanna Brigidi: daughter Ryan Justine (born 2008) and son River Jacob (born 2010).
On February 27, 2012, Stewart went into cardiac arrest after contracting salmonella. His wife performed CPR for several minutes. Stewart now has an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in his chest.[20][21]
Filmography[edit]
Film
Year
Film
Role
Notes
2006 Lenexa, 1 Mile T.J. Ketting
2007 The Death and Life of Bobby Z Monk
Jekyll Tommy
2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Pleasant Curtis
The Haunting of Molly Hartley Mr. Draper
2009 The Collector Arkin
Law Abiding Citizen Rupert Ames
2010 Beneath the Dark Paul
2012 The Dark Knight Rises Barsad
The Collection Arkin
2013 Event 15 Sergeant Oldsman
The Hunted Jake
2014 Transcendence Paul
Interstellar CASE (voice)
2016 Discarnate Casey Blackburn
The Finest Hours Tchuda Southerland
Cold Moon Nathan Redfield
The Neighbor John
2018 Insidious: The Last Key Gerald Rainier
Television
Year
Film
Role
Notes
2000 Dawson's Creek Extra Episode: "To Green, With Love"
2003 Then Came Jones Bill Jenkins Pilot, not picked up
CSI Sean Cleary Episode: "Bad to the Bone
2004–05 Third Watch Officer Brendan Finney Main role (season 6), 20 episodes
2007–08 Dirt Holt McLaren Main role, 20 episodes
2007–present Criminal Minds Det. William LaMontagne Jr. Recurring role, 11 episodes
2008 Raising the Bar Dan Denton Episode: "Hang Time"
ER Daniel Episode: "Under Pressure"
2009 CSI: Miami Colin Astor Episode: "Smoke Gets in Your CSI's"
Southland Vid Holmes Episode: "Unknown Trouble"
The Mentalist Harlan McAdoo Episode: "The Scarlett Letter"
2010 Ghost Whisperer Robert Wharton Episode: "Living Nightmare"
2010–11 No Ordinary Family Joshua Recurring role, 14 episodes
2012 Grimm Bill Episode: "The Bottle Imp"
The Walking Dead: Cold Storage Chase Web series, 4 episodes
2016 Lewis and Clark Reuben Field Pre-production, television miniseries
2017–present Shooter Solotov Recurring role
TBA The Punisher John Pilgrim Main role; (Season 2)
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American Expeditionary Forces
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American Expeditionary Forces
Officers of the AEF and the Baker Mission, c. 1918.
Active
1917–1920
Disbanded
August 31, 1920
Country
United States
Branch
United States Army
Size
c. 2,000,000 men
General Headquarters
Chaumont, France
Engagements
Western Front
Battle of Cambrai
Spring Offensive
Battle of Cantigny
Battle of Belleau Wood
Second Battle of the Marne
Battle of Château-Thierry
Hundred Days Offensive
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Italian Front
Battle of Vittorio Veneto
Commanders
Commander in Chief
Gen. John J. Pershing
The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) was the expeditionary force of the United States Army during World War I. It was established on July 5, 1917, in France under the command of General John J. Pershing. During the United States campaigns in World War I it fought alongside the French Army, British Army, and Canadian Army on the Western Front, against the German Empire. A minority of the AEF troops also fought alongside the Italian Army in that same year, against the Austro-Hungarian Army. The AEF helped the French Army on the Western Front during the Aisne Offensive (at the Battle of Château-Thierry (1918) and Battle of Belleau Wood) in the summer of 1918, and the AEF fought its major actions in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in the latter part of 1918.
Contents
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1 History
1.1 1918
1.2 Casualties
1.3 African Americans
2 See also
3 Notes
4 Further reading
5 External links
History[edit]
Main article: Military history of the United States
With America's first convoy. The troop ships are the Henderson, Antilles, Momus, and Lenape.
General John J. Pershing
President Woodrow Wilson initially planned to give command of the AEF to Gen. Frederick Funston, but after Funston's sudden death, Wilson appointed Major General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing in May 1917, and Pershing remained in command for the entire war. Pershing insisted that American soldiers be well-trained before going to Europe. As a result, few troops arrived before January 1918. In addition, Pershing insisted that the American force would not be used merely to fill gaps in the French and British armies, and he resisted European efforts to have U.S. troops deployed as individual replacements in decimated Allied units. This approach was not always well received by the western Allied leaders who distrusted the potential of an army lacking experience in large-scale warfare.[1] In addition, the British Empire tried to bargain with its spare shipping to make the United States put its soldiers into British ranks.
Column of American troops passing Buckingham Palace, London, 1917.
By June 1917, only 14,000 American soldiers had arrived in France, and the AEF had only a minor participation at the front through late October 1917, but by May 1918 over one million American troops were stationed in France, though only half of them made it to the front lines.[2] Since the transport ships needed to bring American troops to Europe were scarce at the beginning, the U.S. Army pressed into service passenger liners, seized German ships, and borrowed Allied ships to transport American soldiers from ports in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia. The mobilization effort taxed the American military to the limit and required new organizational strategies and command structures to transport great numbers of troops and supplies quickly and efficiently. The French harbors of Bordeaux, La Pallice, Saint Nazaire, and Brest became the entry points into the French railway system that brought the American troops and their supplies to the Western Front. American engineers in France also built 82 new ship berths, nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of additional standard-gauge tracks, and over 100,000 miles (160,000 km) of telephone and telegraph lines.[1]
The first American troops, who were often called "Doughboys", landed in Europe in June 1917. However the AEF did not participate at the front until late October 1917, when the 1st Division fired the first American shell of the war toward German lines, although they participated only on a small scale. A group of regular soldiers and the first American division to arrive in France, entered the trenches near Nancy, France, in Lorraine.[1]
The AEF used French and British equipment. Particularly appreciated were the French canon de 75 modèle 1897, the canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider, and the canon de 155mm GPF. American aviation units received the SPAD XIII and Nieuport 28 fighters, and the U.S. Army tank corps used French Renault FT light tanks. Pershing established facilities in France to train new arrivals with their new weapons.[3] By the end of 1917, four divisions were deployed in a large training area near Verdun: the 1st Division, a regular army formation; the 26th Division, a National Guard division; the 2nd Division, a combination of regular troops and U.S. Marines; and the 42nd "Rainbow" Division, a National Guard division made up of soldiers from nearly every state in the United States. The fifth division, the 41st Division, was converted into a depot division near Tours.
1918[edit]
Allies gain overwhelming superiority in front-line rifle strength as American soldiers arrive in the summer[4]
At the beginning, during the Spring of 1918, the four battle-ready U.S. divisions were deployed under French and British command to gain combat experience by defending relatively quiet sectors of their lines. After the first offensive action and American-led AEF victory on 28 May 1918 at the Battle of Cantigny,[5] by the U.S. 1st Division, and a similar local action by the 2nd Division at Belleau Wood beginning 6 June, both while assigned under French Corps command, Pershing worked towards the deployment of an independent US field Army. The rest followed at an accelerating pace during the spring and summer of 1918. By June Americans were arriving in-theater at the rate of 10,000 a day; most of which entered training by British, Canadian and Australian battle-experienced officers and senior non-commissioned ranks. The training took a minimum of six weeks due to the inexperience of the servicemen.
The first offensive action by AEF units serving under non-American command was 1,000 men (four companies from the 33d Division AEF), with the Australian Corps during the Battle of Hamel on 4 July 1918. (Corporal Thomas A. Pope was awarded the Medal of Honor for this battle.) This battle took place under the overall command of the Australian Corps commander, Lt. Gen. Sir John Monash. The Allied force in this battle combined artillery, armor, infantry, and air support (Combined arms), which served as a blueprint for all subsequent Allied attacks, using "tanks".[6]
Champagne-Marne offensive, 1918.
U.S. Army and Marine Corps troops played a key role in helping stop the German thrust towards Paris, during the Second Battle of the Marne in June 1918 (at the Battle of Château-Thierry (1918) and the Battle of Belleau Wood Wood). The first major and distinctly American offensive was the reduction of the Saint Mihiel salient during September 1918. During the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, Pershing commanded the U.S. First Army, composed of seven divisions and more than 500,000 men, in the largest offensive operation ever undertaken by United States armed forces. This successful offensive was followed by the Meuse-Argonne offensive, lasting from September 26 to November 11, 1918, during which Pershing commanded more than one million American and French combatants. In these two military operations, Allied forces recovered more than 200 sq mi (488 km2) of French territory from the German army. By the time the World War I Armistice had suspended all combat on November 11, 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces had evolved into a modern, combat-tested army.[1]
Late in the war, American units ultimately fought in two other theaters at the request of the European powers. Pershing sent troops of the 332d Infantry Regiment to Italy, and President Wilson agreed to send some troops, the 27th and 339th Infantry Regiments, to Russia.[7] These latter two were known as the American Expeditionary Force Siberia,[8] and the American Expeditionary Force North Russia.[9]
Casualties[edit]
Army field hospital in France, 1918.
The AEF sustained about 320,000 casualties: 53,402 battle deaths, 63,114 noncombat deaths and 204,000 wounded.[10]
The influenza pandemic during the fall of 1918 took the lives of more than 25,000 men from the AEF, while another 360,000 became gravely ill. Some other diseases were relatively well controlled through compulsory vaccination. Typhoid fever was also practically eliminated. Relatively few men suffered actual injury from poison gas, although much larger numbers mistakenly thought that they had been exposed.[7]
Using questionnaires filled out by doughboys as they left the Army, Gutièrrez reports that they were not cynical or disillusioned. They fought "for honor, manhood, comrades, and adventure, but especially for duty."[11]
African Americans[edit]
Officers of the 366th Infantry, c. 1919.
African Americans were drafted on the same basis as whites and made up 13 percent of the draftees. By the end of the war, over 350,000 African-Americans had served in AEF units on the Western Front.[12] However, they were assigned to segregated units commanded by white officers. One fifth of the black soldiers sent to France saw combat, compared to two-thirds of the whites. They were three percent of AEF combat forces ,and under two percent of battlefield fatalities.[13] "The mass of the colored drafted men cannot be used for combatant troops", said a General Staff report in 1918, and it recommended that "these colored drafted men be organized in reserve labor battalions." They handled unskilled labor tasks as stevedores in the Atlantic ports and common laborers at the camps and in the Services of the Rear in France.[14] The French, whose front-line troops were resisting combat duties to the point of mutiny, requested and received control of several regiments of black combat troops.[15] Kennedy reports "Units of the black 92nd Division particularly suffered from poor preparation and the breakdown in command control. As the only black combat division, the 92nd Division entered the line with unique liabilities. It had been deliberately dispersed throughout several camps during its stateside training; some of its artillery units were summoned to France before they had completed their courses of instruction, and were never fully-equipped until after the Armistice; nearly all its senior white officers scorned the men under their command and repeatedly asked to be transferred. The black enlisted men were frequently diverted from their already attenuated training opportunities in France in the summer of 1918 and put to work as stevedores and common laborers."[16]
The 369th, 370th, 371st, and 372d Infantry Regiments (nominally the 93d Division, but never consolidated as such) served with distinction under French command with French colonial units in front-line combat. The French did not harbor the same levels of disdain based on skin color and for many Americans of an African-American descent it was a liberating and refreshing experience.[citation needed] These African-American soldiers wore American uniforms, some dating from the time of the Union Army, with French helmets and were armed with French Model 1907/15 8mm Lebel Berthier rifle#World War I, and the Fusil Mle 1907/15|Berthier rifles]] manufactured by Remington Arms rather than the M1903 Springfield or M1917 Enfield rifles issued to most American soldiers.[17] One of the most distinguished units was the 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters. The 369th was on the front lines for six months, longer than any other African-American regiment in the war. One hundred seventy-one members of the 369th were awarded the Legion of Merit.[18] One member of the 369th, Sergeant Henry Johnson, was awarded the French Croix de guerre,[19] and posthumously the Medal of Honor.[20]
See also[edit]
United States Army portal
World War I portal
American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front (World War I) order of battle
Services of Supply, American Expeditionary Forces
Formations of the United States Army during World War I
Timeline of World War I
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d Coffman, The War to End All Wars (1998)
Jump up ^ Pershing, My Experiences in the World War (1931)
Jump up ^ Wilson, Treat 'Em Rough: The Birth of American Armor, 1917–1920 (1989)
Jump up ^ Leonard P. Ayers, online The war with Germany: a statistical summary (1919) p 105
Jump up ^ Matthew Davenport, "First Over There", 2015, Thomas Dunne Books
Jump up ^ Roland Perry, Monash – The Outsider Who Won a War, 2007, Random House, Sydney, pp.349–352
^ Jump up to: a b Venzon, ed. The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1995)
Jump up ^ Robert L. Willett, Russian Sideshow, pp. 166–167, 170
Jump up ^ E.M. Halliday, When Hell Froze Over (New York City, NY, ibooks, inc., 2000), p. 44
Jump up ^ Congressional Research Service, American War and Military Operations Casualties:Lists and Statistics
Jump up ^ Edward A. :Gutièrrez, Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience (2014)
Jump up ^ African-Americans Continue Tradition of Distinguished Service; U.S. Army; Gerry J. Gilmore; February 2, 2007
Jump up ^ Jennifer D. Keene, "Americans as Warriors: 'Doughboys' in Battle during the First World War", OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 17, No. 1, World War I (Oct., 2002), p. 17.
Jump up ^ Kennedy (1982) 162.
Jump up ^ Barbeau and Henri (1974); [1].
Jump up ^ Kennedy (1982) p. 199.
Jump up ^ Canfield, Bruce N. American Rifleman (April 2009) p. 40
Jump up ^ http://www.explorepahistory.com/~expa/cms/pbfiles/Project1/Scheme40/ExplorePAHistory-a0b1b6-a_514.pdf
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Further reading[edit]
Ayres, Leonard P, The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary Government Printing Office, 1919 full text online
Barbeau, Arthur E. and Florette Henri, The Unknown Soldiers: Black American Troops in World War I (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1974),
Beaver, Daniel R. Newton D. Baker and the American War Effort, 1917–1919 (1966)
Chambers, John W., II. To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America (1987)
Coffman, Edward M (1998). The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I The Standard History. ISBN
Cooke, James J., The Rainbow Division in the Great War, 1917–1919 Praeger Publishers, (1994)
Dalessandro, Robert J. & Dalessandro, Rebecca S. American Lions: The 332nd Infantry Regiment in World War I (Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2009)
Dalessandro, Robert J., & Knapp, Michael G., "Organization and Insignia of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917–1923" (Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2008) The best single volume on AEF unit organization.
Dalessandro, Robert J. & Gerald Torrence, "Willing Patriots: Men of Color in the First World War" (Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2009)
Davenport, Matthew J. "First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny America's First Battle of World War I" (New York, Thomas Dunne: 2015)
Faulkner, Richard S. Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I (U Press of Kansas, 2017). xiv, 758 pp
Freidel, Frank. Over There (1964), well illustrated
Grotelueschen; Mark E. Doctrine under Trial: American Artillery Employment in World War I (2001) ISBN 0-313-31171-4 (full text version at Google Books)
Hallas, James H. Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I (2000)
Heller Charles E. Chemical Warfare in World War I. The American Experience, 1917–1918. Fort Leavenworth, Kan.: Combat Studies Institute, 1984.
Holley, I. B. Ideas and Weapons: Exploitation of the Aerial Weapon by the United States During World War I(1983)
Howarth, Stephen. To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775–1991 (1991)
Hurley, Alfred F. Billy Mitchell, Crusader for Air Power (1975)
James, D. Clayton. The Years of MacArthur, I, 1880–1941. (1970)
Johnson; Herbert A. Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I University of North Carolina Press, (2001)
Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1982)
Koistinen, Paul. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919 (2004)
Lengel, Edward G. (2008). To Conquer Hell. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-7931-9.
Lengel, Edward G., ed. A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). xii, 537 pp.
Millett, Allan Reed. Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps (1991)
Pershing, John J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War (1931)
Smythe, Donald. Pershing: General of the Armies (1986)
Van Ells, Mark D. America and World War I: A Traveler's Guide. (Interlink, 2014)
Trask, David F. The United States in the Supreme War Council: American War Aims and Inter-Allied Strategy, 1917–1918 (1961)
Venzon, Anne ed. The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1995)
Wilson Dale E. Treat 'Em Rough: The Birth of American Armor, 1917–1920 Presidio Press, 1989.
Woodward, David R. The American Army and the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2014). 484 pp. online review
Yockelson, Mitchell A. (2008-05-30). Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918. Foreword by John S. D. Eisenhower. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3919-7.
Yockelson, Mitchell. Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat at the German Army in World War I (New York: NAL, Caliber, 2016) ISBN 978-0-451-46695-2
Zeiger; Susan. In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917–1919 (1999)
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Records of the American Expeditionary Forces (World War I) at the National Archives and Records Administration
United States Army Center of Military History
Army Historical Series: American Military History
Chapter 17: "World War I: The First Three Years"
Chapter 18: "World War I: The U.S. Army Overseas"
CMH Subject Publications
CMH Pub 24-1: "Learning Lessons in the American Expeditionary Forces"
U.S. Army Chemical Corps Historical Studies
"Gas Warfare in World War I: Study Number 9: The 1st Division at Ansauville"; January – April 1918
American Battle Monuments Commission Publications
"82d Division: Summary of Operations in the World War"
"92d Division: Summary of Operations in the World War"
"93d Division: Summary of Operations in the World War"
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Awards and Decorations: World War I Statistics
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AEF General Headquarters Papers
American Expeditionary Force website – recaps war in 10 pages
Works by United States Army. American Expeditionary Forces at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about American Expeditionary Forces at Internet Archive
Works by American Expeditionary Forces at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
WWI Service Questionnaires at Gettysburg College
World War I : Soldiers Remembered, Washington State Library and Washington State Archives
The American Expeditionary Force in World War I
Edith M. Faulstich A.E.F Collections & Writings
Hoover Institution Archives: Collection Name: Faulstich, Edith M. died 1972, collector
Edith M. Faulstich collection, 1918–1975: AEF Letters, Diaries, Photos
Letters to the A.E.F in Siberia
"A Find! Mail To the American Expeditionary Forces"

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