Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during the ...

A mess cook's sick call visit at Camp Funston became the first recorded military case of an outbreak that killed more U.S. soldiers than the Germans did in WWI.

In the chaos of World War I, soldiers needed rifles they could count on when every shot mattered. These weren’t lightweight sporting guns — they were built for mud, rain, and brutal trench conditions.

World War I was the laboratory that transformed airplanes from vehicles of limited capability into reliable weapons of war. The “World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation” exhibition highlights both ...

Any enduring romanticism for war was obliterated by the industrialized brutality of World War I, from which legions of soldiers returned disfigured by facial injuries. Anna Coleman Ladd working on a ...

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The First World War transformed global warfare, spreading fighting across continents, seas, and the air between 1914 and 1918. Governments mobilised i.

The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...