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The Christmas Party at Camp Upton 1918
Telephone Operators Quartered in U. S. Army Barracks Transform Their Home at Upton Into a Santa Claus Paradise CAMP UPTON!" called the conductor. The train came to a standstill, wheezing and coughing as its burden [...]
In World War I, France started to build a fake Paris to confuse German bombers
Just after noon on August 30, 1914, about a month into World War I, a biplane marked with the German iron cross under its wings flew 6,000 feet above France’s capital city. Soon, to the [...]
The Great War Atrocity That Changed War Crimes Prosecutions Forever
I first encountered the story of His Majesty’s Hospital Ship (HMHS) Llandovery Castle while doing online research about the First World War. I came across a reference to the Leipzig War Crimes Trials—the forgotten attempt [...]
Eugene Bullard, pioneering African-American aviator who flew for France in World War I
The first African-American combat pilot flew not for his country, but for France. Born in the segregated south of the United States at the turn of the 20th century, Eugene Bullard moved to Paris and [...]
The Forgotten African-American Regiments of World War I
Over 380,000 African-American troops served in World War One according to the US National Archives. Here, Chris Fray looks at the role the Black Americans played in the war in the context of the time. [...]
Tanks, Scout Planes, and Combined Arms: How the Allies Finally Broke the WWI Trench Stalemate
Plus, what the lessons learned in WWI mean for the current trench stalemate in Ukraine. Mud, blood, and barbed wire. To an Allied soldier in the trenches of the Western Front in 1917, that seemed [...]
World War I Code Talkers
In WWI, Native Americans began to use their languages for secret U.S. military codes. Today, their legacy continues as they serve with honor, dedication and distinction. In WWI, Native Americans began to use their languages [...]
In Their Own Words – Arthur Niedermiller: One Sailor in WWI
Learn about Arthur Christian Niedermiller of Detroit, Michigan. Born in 1889 of German-American descent, learn how he overcame obstacles as the United States entered #TheGreatWar in April 1917. Looking up Woodward Avenue in downtown [...]
Borrowed Soldiers: Americans Under British Command in 1918 (Video)
In this highly informative 48-minute documentary from the Western Front Association, Mitchell Yockelson, senior archivist at the U.S. National Archives and an instructor at the Naval Academy, presents the story of the AEF's II Corps, [...]
