American soldiers are shown going through the personal effects of German prisoners for weapons and papers before confining them in prison pens. These prisoners are a few captured by the Americans on the first day of the St. Mihiel attack which began…
Three photographs show the American army in France during World War I.
The first shows American artillerymen with a 155 millimeter gun; the second shows American wounded being lifted from a hospital train; the third shows Yankee doughboys headed to…
American machine gunners are letting go a strip of "typewriter" bullets from a gun emplacement in the frontline trenches somewhere in France . In Yankee trench slang a machine gun is called a "typewriter" because of the likeness of the rhythm and…
During the Baffle of the Somme in July 1916, an intense artillery barrage lasting seven days was laid down, and then the infantry advance was made on 1st July. The small Township of Montauban was captured by the British on the first day, but it had…
Here are various scenes from World War I including the British Army traveling from Jerusalem to Nazareth. There is also an advertisement for cocoanut oil shampoo.
This is the World War I U.S. Army discharge certificate for Eddie A. Howard at Camp Dodge, Iowa signed on June 19, 1919. It was donated in his memory by Karen Ballard Avey in September 2015.
This World War I atlas shows maps and photographs of the areas involved in the war and the soldiers who fought there. This atlas was a gift from Barbara Agan in February 2006.
