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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

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

World War I and the Air Force: Pioneers saw the future at the dawn of military flight

A former Air Force chief of staff outlines the American role in the early days of air combat.

By: March 29, 2017

World War I and the Army: How 'The Great War' shaped the force for a century

A retired Army general looks back at the watershed logistical achievements that put U.S. forces in Europe in 1917.

By: March 29, 2017

French fighter jets stage flyover over New York harbor for WWI anniversary

French Air Force fighter jets have staged a colorful flyover across New York Harbor.

By: The Associated Press March 25, 2017

10 must-haves for the World War I infantryman – and one piece of junk

Doughboys faced a brutal war zone. This gear helped them to survive.

By: Tony Lombardo March 13, 2017

African-American heroes are a part of a vanishing World War I legacy

Carol Moseley Braun on how a century-old conflict helped launch a civil rights movement

By: Carol Moseley Braun February 15, 2017

Leon Panetta: Why a World War I memorial makes sense, a century later

100 years on, the Great War offers lessons we must appreciate

By: Leon Panetta November 15, 2016

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