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The US Navy built 12 concrete ships for World War I
During World War I, steel for building ships was in short supply. While American President Woodrow Wilson was determined to keep the U.S. out of the war, he didn’t want America’s Merchant Marine to be [...]
America’s WWI Commission on Training Camp Activities
Founding the Commission The idea for the Commission for Training Camp Activities (CTCA) emerged before the United States went to war. In August of 1916, with the prospect of American involvement in World War I [...]
#VeteranOfTheDay: Navy Veteran Lenah S. Higbee
Originally from Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada, Lenah S. Higbee came to the U.S. to study nursing. She completed training at the New York Postgraduate Hospital in 1889 and began working as a surgical nurse for [...]
American Failure: WWI Combat Aircraft Production
The United States did not produce any aircraft of its own design for use at the front during World War I. American industry did make two contributions to the airwar. Building the British designed DH-4, [...]
25 Mind-Blowing Facts About World War I That Shaped The World
When most people hear the term “world war” their mind automatically goes to World War II, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust among other things. However, not many are aware of the immense global effect World [...]
The Last Man to Die in World War I
World War I ended precisely on the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month of 1918. At the moment the bells struck and the guns went silent, a body fell in a French village. Henry [...]
The US Waiting to Enter WWI
July 1914 was the start of the first war that swept across Europe and reached across the ocean. April 1917 the United States entered te war. Nearly three years had passed before the war pulled [...]
Philadelphia’s Little Italy Responds to Its Motherland’s Declaration of War in 1915
By May 1915, anticipation and apprehension had visibly increased within the Italian colony of Philadelphia. As the Chamber of Deputies in Rome deliberated the decision that would bring their nation to war, Philadelphia’s Italians gathered [...]
Did you know? The first American woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize is from Illinois, and served in World War I?
Jane Addams was a loud and outspoken opponent to World War I. “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common [...]
