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…
A Copenhagen dispatch announced Oct. 17 that Germany's federal council had accepted a proposed amendment to the constitution making it imperative that the consent of the federal council and reichstag be given before a declaration of war to be made…
David Farragut (1801-70) was an accomplished U.S. naval officer, who received great acclaim for his service to the Union during the American Civil War (1861-65). Farragut commanded the Union blockade of Southern ports, helped capture the the…
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…
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…
This 3 page paper from World War I shows photographs of actress Marie Doro, dancer Mademoiselle Dorsa, author Jane Cowl, President Woodrow Wilson, and photographs of British soldiers and scenes in World War I.
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…
