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YWCA Dances Relieve Stress For Signal Corps Girls – 1918
Touch of Gayety At Roanne Takes Thoughts From War’s Horrors. When the great army of Signal Corps girls was bring recruited In New York and throughout the country, one of the warnings given to applicants [...]
Cultural Fusions Behind Europe’s Most Iconic Battles in World War I
The First World War massively changed the way we approach and manage conflicts, particularly from one tribe securing and expanding their own territories to forming alliances with other like-minded civilizations to protect and maintain the ideologies and [...]
Florence Standish – Early 20th Century Asheville, VA nurse
The History of the Asheville Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) is a complex and fascinating one spanning over a century of care. Research continues to uncover connections, placing the people of this historic hospital site [...]
Why Were These WWI Soldiers Executed By Their Own Country?
All soldiers in World War I had one thing in common: possible execution by their own country for alleged cowardice. How did this actually affect armies? In his First World War memoir Good-Bye to All That, the [...]
Sgt. Alvin York: From Blacksmith to Legendary WWI Marksman
Sgt. Alvin York was a United States Army soldier and one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War I. Born in rural Tennessee, Sgt. York had little formal education but was an excellent [...]
The Battle Of Argonne Forest: The Deadliest American Battle In WWI
Masses of inexperienced soldiers — most of whom had barely tasted adulthood (per The Washington Post) — were sent to the Western Front during World War I (via International Encyclopedia of the First World War). Known [...]
“A journey of research & learning that continues to this day”
Like many students of World War I, I took an interest upon learning that a family descendant fought in the Great War. It all began some 50 years ago when as a 12 year old, [...]
Sharing the stories and records of the Great War with others “creates a bond of admiration”
Thirty-one years after the Great War ended, a 67-year-old physician sat down and wrote a letter to his father recalling “one of the most trying days my young life had to that time experienced.” As [...]
World War I Bunker Buster: M1916 37mm Infantry Gun
The First World War saw the introduction of many new and exceedingly deadly weapon systems. The eternal suffering of the infantryman continued, made worse by the development of the machine gun. When placed in a [...]
