
Billy Mitchell’s Aerial Blitzkrieg
A century ago, the U.S. Army Air Service embarked on its first major air campaign, presaging the combined-arms assaults to follow.
A century ago, the U.S. Army Air Service embarked on its first major air campaign, presaging the combined-arms assaults to follow.
“Once you have had to lead a platoon into direct machine-gun fire,” Raymond Chandler would later write, “nothing is ever the same again.”
Feeling happy? Mad? Sad? The museum’s got a GIF for that
On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, used an M1910 to shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand
In 1917 two French artillery shells sealed off the tunnel's exits, dooming the men inside
James Carl Nelson delivers an interesting yet imperfect account of the WWI American hero and the trials that befell him over the years
The Great Depression made a laughing stock of 'Great Engineer' Herbert Hoover's faith in efficiency
“Having a rose named Never Forget will be a reminder and help to perpetuate the message that we must never forget; that we are united with and honor all those served and sacrificed on behalf of America in times of war and armed conflict"
Alexander Rose touches on the WWI zeppelin raids and how manned flight became a big business in the early 20th century
Floyd Gibbons made history when his dispatch got past the wartime censor
Arthur Guy Empey parlayed his brief service in World War I into a best-selling book and a career in Hollywood. Then he lost everything.
In the lead-up to Christmas 1914 soldiers on either side of the Western Front no man’s land set aside fear and their weapons to exchange surreal holiday greetings.
A World War I plaque indicates that Euan Lucie-Smith was the first multiracial officer commissioned in the British Army
Douglas Mastriano recounts the key officers who helped Black Jack Pershing lead the U.S. Army to victory in WWI
Tim Cook assesses the performance and staying power of the Canadian Corps during World War I