Sending a message via pigeon during World War Due to their homing ability speed and altitude they were often used carry military messages from the field to headquarters
317th Engineers baseball team at Camp Sherman This regimental unit was part of 92nd Division made up of all African American soldiers and sailed for in The 317th Engineers took part in Meuse- and campaigns July 31 5490×4317
2nd Lt — A Sergeant of a Royal Engineers signals section puts a message into cylinder attached to collar of a messenger dog 28 August See more photos: tco G2hxOeebpb tco aSx67X3SBT
-1942 was a Second Lieutenant of Philippine Scouts posthumously awarded of Honor Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond call of duty in act See more photos here: tco ZTpkc0m967 tco nQAw9H7IJn
Sargent Alvin who while forces were under machine gun fire managed to take out machine gun nest and capture 132 German troops alive When he returned general quipped So Mr i hear you captured whole German army to which replied No sir just 132
The American Red Cross furnishes individual music for the wounded soldiers that are unable to join the larger groups that are reached by the usual forms of recreation Sep × colorized by me
The womens football team from taken in Women would play representing munitions factories in which they worked before practice was banned in 1921 764×600
Senate Sergeant at Arms turns forward Ohio Clock for first while Senators William Calder NY William Saulsbury Jr DE and Joseph T Robinson AR look on See more images: tco wL4FwYodU5 tco EpW4mYRNGy
Czech Legionnaires guarding a train in Siberia on a -C day By the autumn of World War I was over and the legionnaires distant beloved Czechoslovakia had been declared an independent nation x
The American uniform of AEF was patterned after British uniform of period Wool with metal fastenings metal helmet reproduction leather boots More pictures: tco zKHEEwDO6u tco MppAXwhosi
photo from With masks over their faces members of American Red Cross remove a victim of Spanish Flu from a house at and Page Avenues in St Louis 50-100 million people worldwide died during More pics: tco 2kjHP8YvkG tco gE77zt60lp
photo from With masks over their faces members of American Red Cross remove a victim of Spanish Flu from a house at and Page Avenues in St Louis 50-100 million people worldwide died d See more images: tco 2kjHP8YvkG tco LyYcXrAcsr
French troopers under with their machine guns amongst ruins of a church near Marne driving back Germans More photos here: tco yYbULg38Z7 tco 9naW6yA51d
On an ancient waterwheel in West Virginia in , the four Vagabonds pose for a cameraman Left to right are Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, John Burroughs and Thomas A Edison ×
Helen Keller American author political activist and lecturer first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree meets Chaplin during the filming of Sunnyside
WW1 The highly effective Pfalz DXII German fighter plane built by passed its type test and was approved to enter into service with The DXII began reaching Jagdstaffeln prim See more images: tco Zd50M1RIaw tco ZhdHE98JRR
A true American hero – Elizabeth McWilliams ca She sailed from NY as a Red Cross nurses aid and died just as the ship reached London She worked hard all the first day scrubbing out the influenza-infected baggage room to provide a temporary hospital
Isles of Scilly showing NCOs wearing a mixture of RAF RNAS and RFC uniform – as was often the case while the – as well as one officer wearing RAF uniform Two of the women are wearing WRAF uniform and the other appears to be a civilian ×
Nurse Agnes and American Red Cross volunteer Italy Photograph in Photograph Collection John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Boston See more pictures: tco h8x4zdm26i tco hOrKE35YAB
American soldiers members of s 117th Trench Mortar Battery operating a trench mortar This gun and crew kept up a continuous fire throughout raid of March 4 in Muer et Modselle France More pics: tco 4oGnQUP5ZX tco oAmjyL3SnY
The last known photograph of Manfred von Richthofen AKA: The Red Baron taken in late April In this pic Richthofen is hugging his beloved dog Mortiz only a couple of hours before Richthofen would be fatally shot down
in uniform of Scottish in which he served as a lieutenant in World War One He was awarded Military Cross in September He went on to become a successful screen and stage actor More photos here: tco KhQuCalYp3 tco ZGxdn66U2s