• 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."

    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.

    Raf CasertandVirginia 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.

    April 4, 2017
  • American flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973) sits in his Nieuport 28 fighter plane and smiles at the camera, 1910s. Dubbed America's 'Ace of Aces,' Rickenbacker had 26 victories in battle and was part of the first all-American air unit to see combat duty in World War I, the 94th Aero Pursuit Squadron. In this shot, great detail of the plane's armament can be seen. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    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.

    David LongenbachandThe 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.

    April 4, 2017
  • Memorabilia honoring the centennial of WWI are on display during an open house at the Michigan Military Heritage Museum in Grass Lake, Mich., on Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. (Emily Mesner/Jackson Citizen Patriot via AP)
    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.

    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.

    March 29, 2017
  • Embarked for France. 1917. Western Newspaper Union. (War Dept.) Exact Date Shot Unknown NARA FILE #: 165-WW-289C-7 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 462
    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.

    March 29, 2017
  • The French Air Force's Patrouille de France, led by an A400 Airbus support plane, performs a flyover Saturday, March 25, 2017, seen from Jersey City, N.J. The eight Alpha Jet formation is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States entry into World War I and to reaffirm the historic ties between France and the United States. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
    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.

    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.

    Tony Lombardo
    March 13, 2017
  • Negro troops in France. Picture shows a part of the 15th Regt. Inf. N.Y.N.G. organized by Col. Haywood, which has been under fire. Ca. 1918. IFS. (War Dept.) Exact Date Shot Unknown NARA FILE #: 165-WW-127-4 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 476
    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

    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

    Leon Panetta
    November 15, 2016