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.
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.
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…
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…
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 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 Bureau for Returning Soldiers and Sailors was established by the United States Employment Service with branches in every state to help returning servicemen find jobs. The first document has the name of Captain Patterson, 26th Airborn, Provo. The…
This newspaper features 4 pages of life in 1918 including an article entitled "The Unexpected Hiding Place of a German "Sniper" ';
followed by photographs of Mr. Adolph Lewisohn's Town House, No. 881, Fifth Avenue, New York; and then an ad for…
