World War I earned the grim title of “the War to end all wars” for a reason: the world had never before witnessed a conflict ...

During World War I, four of baseball’s most accomplished, most celebrated Hall of Famers volunteered in The Great War, ...

Gas attacks were a deadly and virulent horror of war that the Germans introduced to the battlefields in the war’s early stages. At first, soldiers were given simple gas masks to carry as ...

One of the strangest presents we've ever been given was a World War I gas mask, in its original cylindrical canister, presented to us in 1990 for our 10th (tin) wedding anniversary. I wondered ...

In 1914 a chemist called Fritz Haber offered his knowledge to the German Army. He soon began experimenting with chlorine gas to be used in trench warfare. L.A.'s mayor declared a homelessness ...

U-111 is the last known enemy submarine wreck from WWI in waters off the eastern seaboard—and never should have been found. A stereo card image of surrendered German submarines moored at the ...

On June 2, 1918, during Germany’s spring offensive offensive on the Western Front, a French unit pulling back to more defensible ground encountered a newly arrived company of Marines marching ...

It took six assaults in the face of devastating German artillery ... Petty himself was knocked down by shrapnel and his gas mask destroyed. Ignoring his wounds and tearing off the useless mask ...

Summary and Key Points: On April 24, 1918, during WWI, the first ... a thousand German artillery pieces unleashed a holocaust of high explosive shells and mustard gas around the French town ...

That was your training, you see, to just keep going, making for the German trenches.” It was a bloodbath ... Even if they were wearing a gas mask, mustard gas was still a hazard: it seeped through ...