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World War I and the Navy: The U-boat threat leads to game-changing innovations

The head of Naval History and Heritage Command on the fleet's role in "The Great War."

By: April 5, 2017

100 years ago, war declaration started The American Century

Carpenter Guy Ford liked to watch fish play in the currents around his ship as it sailed for Europe to offload untested troops for a war as horrendous as it was defining for the century to come.

By: Raf Casert and Virginia Mayo, The Associated Press April 5, 2017

Centennial of US entrance into WWI lures visitors to museum

Crossing a glass walkway that spans a field of 9,000 poppies, visitors to the official U.S. memorial to World War I are transported to a time when tanks and air warfare were new and the hopeful flowers sprang up on the barren, trench-dotted battlefields where hundreds of thousands of soldiers died.

By: April 4, 2017

As the US entered World War I, American soldiers depended on foreign weapons technology

On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war against Germany and entered World War I. Since August 1914, the war between the Central and Entente Powers had devolved into a bloody stalemate, particularly on the Western Front. That was where the U.S. would enter the engagement.

By: David Longenbach and The Conversation Via Ap April 4, 2017

World War I and the Marine Corps: Bravery at Belleau Wood set the tone for today's force

A former top enlisted adviser to the chairman of the JCS on how the Marine Corps came of age in Europe in 1918.

By: April 4, 2017

World War I and the Marine Corps: Bravery at Belleau Wood set the tone for today's force

A former top enlisted adviser to the chairman of the JCS on how the Marine Corps came of age in Europe in 1918.

By: April 4, 2017

New Michigan military museum shares stories of war heroes

The Michigan Military Heritage Museum in Grass Lake opened in November and tells the stories of Michigan veterans from the Revolutionary War up to the present.

By: The Associated Press April 1, 2017