We tend to forget that there had to be cooks etc to feed the soldiers - did your relatives have any stories about the food ? ! :) In the spring of...
Willy Rosenstein was a World War I ace and a pre-war aviation pioneer. He was born in Stuttgart on January 28, 1892. Because he had a keen interest...
Wilhelm was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, whose policies helped to bring about World War One. Wilhelm was born on 27...
He was commander in chief of the Allied armies in World War I. Ferdinand Foch was born on Oct. 2, 1851, at Tarbes. His early schooling revealed...
Heres a brave man we don't know too much about !! Winston Churchill Millington was born in Barbados in 1893. In 1897 he moved to Trinidad with his...
I found this .... that I thought was interesting ... !! :) http://stmarys.ca/~wmills/course317/2ww1.html Annie :)
I found this but haven't been able to find out anything else this soldier ... does anybody else know ?? 21 May 1917 Leo Pinckney, an African...
General of the Armies of the United States One of America's most famous Army officers, Pershing was born in Missouri on September 13, 1860. He...
In August of 1917 Eugene Jacques Bullard, an American volunteer in the French army, became the first black military pilot in history and the only...
Canadian Major William G. Barker was born on November 3, 1894 in Dauphin, Manitoba. As a boy he wasn't interested in school work and spent most of...
Frank Luke, nicknamed The Arizona Balloon Buster, was born in Phoenix, Ariz. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in Sep. 1917, learned to fly, and arrived...
A little more than a decade after the Wright brothers' historic flight at Kittyhawk, the demands of war transformed the airplane into a weapon of...
C.O. 94th Pursuit Squadron ..... top American Ace of WWI, 26 victories Eddie Rickenbacker, was a successful race car driver, fighter pilot, airline...
The dimensions of World War I were, regarding the length of time and the number of engaged troops so large that it became obvious that the Golden and...
Mongolia was owned and operated by the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company and had a capacity of 1,818 passengers. She was built in 1903 by the New York...
Jane Arminda Delano Born at Townsend, New York, on March 12, 1862, she graduated from the Bellevue Hospital of Nursing, New York City, in 1886....
When the call to battle sounded in April 1917, the Navy air arm could muster at its one air station only 48 officers and 239 enlisted men with some...
In 1901 and 1908 the establishment of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps opened the door for women in the military but ever so slightly. It wasn't until...
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