During World War I, fighter planes called Sopwith Camels downed 1,294 enemy aircraft, more than any other Allied fighter in ...
When America entered WWI in 1917, American men between the ages of 15 and 45 were required to register for the draft. This included not only U.S. citizens, but also resident aliens who had filed a ...
When World War I ended in 1918, the United States entered a relatively long period of peacetime — this period lasted until 1939. However, the U.S. didn't enter full active combat operations in World ...
In this Sept. 23, 2018, file photo, re-enactors in World War I military uniforms carry an American flag in the Meuse-Argonne cemetery in northeastern France. (Thibault Camus/AP) ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Crossing a glass walkway that spans a field of 9,000 poppies, visitors to the official U.S. memorial to World War I are transported to a time when tanks and air warfare were new and ...
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into WWI – April 6, 1917 – the Smithsonian National Postal Museum opened an exhibit on Thursday displaying Gen. Pershing’s famous letter as well ...
WASHINGTON — Under a canopy of poplar and oak trees, a team of geophysicists surveyed the forest floor for century-old wartime relics. They positioned an electromagnetic scanner atop the carpet of ...
The US government may have sexually “teased” soldiers in the First World War in an attempt to get them to fight harder, argues a paper published by Cambridge historian Eric Wycoff Rogers. Yep, it ...
"You must stay where you are for as long as you can." Good Deed Entertainment has released a brand new official US trailer for the WWI drama titled Journey's End, from director Saul Dibb, which first ...