World War I

A new sculpture takes its place at the national World War I Memorial in D.C.

3:04pm September 13, 2024

Sabin Howard's sculpture, A Soldier's Journey, features 38 human figures meant to tell the story of a single “doughboy," a nickname used for American World War I soldiers.

Explorers say they’ve found a British warship sunk by a German U-boat in WWI

5:00am August 20, 2024

by Joe Hernandez

Some 524 people, including the ship’s captain, perished when the HMS Hawke went down in the North Sea off the eastern coast of Scotland in 1914.

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Four American soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher in Vaux, France, on July 22, 1918. As many as 280,000 World War I combatants were left with facial injuries.

With no textbooks or antibiotics, this WWI surgeon pioneered facial reconstruction

1:40pm July 20, 2022

by Dave Davies

Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story Dr. Harold Gillies, a military surgeon who spent WWI reconstructing the faces of soldiers and sailors who'd suffered horrific facial injuries.

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Armenian refugees on the deck of a French cruiser that rescued them in 1915 during the massacre of the Armenian populations in the Ottoman Empire.

Biden Could Call The Massacres Of Armenians Genocide. Here's What That Means

1:43pm April 23, 2021

U.S. lawmakers expect President Biden to recognize the World War I-era mass killing and deportation of Armenians as genocide — even if it makes Turkey angry.

Politics & Government

Supreme Court To Decide Fate Of World War I Memorial Cross On Public Land

5:17am February 27, 2019

by Nina Totenberg

The American Humanist Association is challenging the existence of a 40-foot cross on government-owned land, but the Trump administration hopes a newly conservative majority will agree to let it stand.

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The USS San Diego — seen here on Jan. 28, 1915, while serving as flagship of the Pacific Fleet — was sunk 100 years ago off the coast of Long Island, N.Y.

Mystery Blast Sank The USS San Diego in 1918. New Report Reveals What Happened

4:37pm December 11, 2018

by Ian Stewart

A team of researchers had been trying to determine whether the armored cruiser was lost to sabotage, an accident or an attack.

The U.S. military needed skilled operators to handle the telephones in World War I. Known as the Hello Girls, 223 U.S. women served in France. Some worked near the front lines with Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, the top U.S. commander. Here, the women w

100 Years On, The 'Hello Girls' Are Recognized For World War I Heroics

4:27pm November 09, 2018

by Greg Myre

More than 200 American women played a crucial role in the war as telephone operators. But when the shooting stopped, they weren't considered veterans and their story was largely forgotten. Until now.

President Trump was impressed with a Bastille Day parade when he visited France in 2017, inspiring him to request a military review for Washington, D.C. The date for that parade is now uncertain.

National

No Veterans Day Military Parade This Year; DOD Looking At Dates In 2019

10:50pm August 16, 2018

by Barbara Campbell

The procession through Washington, D.C., requested by President Trump and set for November, has been delayed. Reports estimated its cost at $92 million, although the defense secretary scoffs at that.

U.S. troops wearing new sheep-lined coats march in downtown Vladivostok in November 1918.

World News

In Russia, Scant Traces And Negative Memories Of A Century-Old U.S. Intervention

5:00am May 28, 2018

by Lucian Kim

As Americans accuse the Kremlin of interfering in their elections, and Russians fiercely deny it, there's no debating that the U.S. once intervened militarily in Russia — with few, if any, results.

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A girl visits The Poppy Memorial, a wall of 645,000 poppy flowers to honor the service members who have died since World War I. The USAA made the memorial that stands on the National Mall.

A Wall of Poppies Honors Fallen Soldiers On The National Mall

3:08pm May 26, 2018

In Washington, D.C., a dramatic memorial of bright red flowers pays tribute to men and women who died in uniform.