Belleau Wood - a bloody encounter of WW1 - occupies a special ... but the three-day battle nonetheless demonstrated that the American troops could fight and acted as a psychological boost for ...

You can read a story from the National Museum of American History about a member of the storied 92nd Division "Buffalo Soldiers" who survived the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the ultimate battle of the ...

The battle that ensued is known historically as the Battle of the Bulge. The courage and fortitude of the American Soldier was tested against great adversity. Nevertheless, the quality of his ...

Togo in Africa saw the first battle between Allied and German forces in World War One. They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster?

American military leaders ... high in the mountains of North Korea. The two-week battle that followed, fought in brutally cold temperatures, is one of the most celebrated in Marine Corps annals.

Underneath, a handwritten note reads: "'Lone Tree' was a flowering Cherry shelled to a stump in the Battle of Loos in September 1915. It was the principle feature of 'Lone Tree Ridge' - attacked ...

Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens ... As biographer Kenneth Ray Young noted, after a victorious battle in February, "newspaper headlines in the United States proclaimed ...

The World War I Centennial Commission Education Department has published extensive lessons and resources to help you you to teach/learn about the contributions of American women in the war.

In the closing hours of the bloodiest single day in American history, which saw more than 22,000 soldiers killed, wounded or ...

The detonation of the Hawthorn Ridge, near the village of Beaumont Hamel in France, signalled the start of the Battle of the Somme – which saw the 36th Ulster Division and the 16th Irish ...

The Birdman of Cooper Island has nerves of steel. For five decades Seattle-based George Divoky, 78, has completed an annual solo pilgrimage to a hostile island off the coast of Alaska to study his ...

After a search that began five years ago, on the centenary of the battle, we are very proud to be able to shed further light on what was a defining point in WWI, and therefore a landmark moment in ...