At the outbreak of World ... the war. If they waited until the Americans arrived, they would be outnumbered and would lose. The first American Troops arrive in France, 25 June 1917. During the ...

The hundreds of thousands of African Americans who served in the U.S. Army during World War I and ... from the immediate aftermath of World War I that strikes you as particularly prescient today? On ...

They were the vanguard of a new American army, about to enter the most destructive war the world had ever known ... for more than two years—and one that would unleash consequences and new ...

The laces made in Belgium during World War One are an important part of the lace holdings of the Division of Home and Community Life’s Textile Collection in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

But even if an invader managed to get through all that, there’s one more reason they ... outlook for Britain looked bleak during World War II, a cadre of Americans organized to send their ...