While millions of Americans can name Western Front battles like Belleau Wood or the Meuse-Argonne, almost no one remembers ...

Over the last century, modern gems like 1917 and ageless classics like Lawrence of Arabia have presented the brutality and ...

In 1918, WWI pilots risked death every flight without parachutes. This video traces parachute development from da Vinci to ...

Here are five historically accurate metal songs about World War I, chosen by Noise, the visionary behind WWI-themed melodic black/death metal band Kanonenfieber. The band's name translates from German ...

As part of the memorial’s newly renovated lower level, the Memorial Bergman Family Gallery features 4,000 sq ft of storage, including a 190-ft coastline of window cases displaying artifacts that were ...

During World War I, fighter planes called Sopwith Camels downed 1,294 enemy aircraft, more than any other Allied fighter in WWI. For those familiar with the Peanuts comics, it's the name of the ...

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in the first months of World War I, which changed the way war was waged. The war was supposed to be over by Christmas of 1914, but by December the ...

Advances in military technology—including more lethal artillery and rapid-fire machine guns— contributed to the heavy toll. Maps, too, played a role. Recent cartographic innovations allowed artillery ...

A time capsule from 1924 was unveiled at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. The 100-year-old box was laid at the cornerstone of the Liberty Memorial Tower two years before ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 28, 2011) -- America's last known World War I veteran, Cpl. Frank Buckles, died Sunday at the age of 110. Buckles died of natural causes at his home in Charles Town ...

The National WWI Museum and Memorial has undergone some big changes over the last three years. The latest is a one-of-a-kind, immersive exhibit to its already loaded walls. Encounters, the new exhibit ...