The U.S. 1st Infantry Division in Photos

America's 1st Infantry Division has served with distinction in war for more than a century

German Failure at Chemin des Dames: How They Lost in 1918

A German feint over the Chemin des Dames in May 1918 gained more ground than expected before devolving into a logistical nightmare

Book Review: Churchill’s Admiral in Two World Wars

Jim Crossley highlights the Royal Navy career of Admiral Roger Keyes, who served Britain through both World Wars

‘War Remains’: WWI Museum’s Latest Virtual Reality Experience Takes Viewers into the Trenches

"Audiences will undergo the annihilation of innocence caused by the First World War and bear witness to the emergence of modern warfare"

Engineering Victory

Given their expertise with explosives, tunnelers like Coulson Norman Mitchell were repurposed and sent forward to decommission German demolition charges

The Nightingale’s Lament: Poetry of Rebellion

A poet's tribute to Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for Britain in World War I

Doughboy’s Smuggled Letter Home Recounts Dangerous Ocean Crossing

In late 1917, an American soldier risked government censors’ wrath to smuggle home a letter about dodging German submarines while aboard a troopship headed for war

Revolt in the Ranks: The Court-Martial of Lieutenant Colonel Lewis E. Goodier Sr.

In 1915 a group of disgruntled airmen in the U.S. Signal Corps declared war on their superiors. The consequences were far reaching

Nightmare on the Western Front

In 1918 E. Allen Pastelnick recounted some of his most harrowing experiences in World War I in a letter to his former history professor

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.

‘Dead men are heavier than broken hearts’: Author Raymond Chandler and the Great War

“Once you have had to lead a platoon into direct machine-gun fire,” Raymond Chandler would later write, “nothing is ever the same again.”

National WWI Museum and Memorial Now Has Great War GIFs for Every Occasion

Feeling happy? Mad? Sad? The museum’s got a GIF for that

The Bodies of More Than 270 German WWI Soldiers Found in French Tunnel

In 1917 two French artillery shells sealed off the tunnel's exits, dooming the men inside

‘The York Patrol’ Book Review

James Carl Nelson delivers an interesting yet imperfect account of the WWI American hero and the trials that befell him over the years

How One of the Smartest U.S. Presidents Crashed and Burned

The Great Depression made a laughing stock of  'Great Engineer' Herbert Hoover's faith in efficiency 

‘Never Forget’ Rose Created for Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Centennial

“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"