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Mess formation, detention barracks, Naval Training Station, San Francisco, California, circa 1918. Fort Point is a masonry seacoast fortification loca...

Second Draft. The first number drawn was 246, and was picked from the urn by Secretary of War Baker. June, 1918. In 1917 the administration of Woodrow...

During World War I, Hazel Carter of Douglas, Arizona stowed away on a ship to France to stay with her soldier husband, Corporal John Carter. When her...

Wall scaling at Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, circa 1918. Spartanburg was chosen by the army for a World War I training camp. The camp was named in...

Foreign Legion, 4th Liberty Loan Drive, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2, 1918. A Liberty Bond was a war bond that was sold in the United States to s...

Second Battalion of the IX Coast Artillery Corps demonstrating the hollow square formation used in the event of a street riot, March, 1918. Machine gu...

Lieutenant John Applebee of the American Red Cross talking with soldiers at Camp Hospital Number 43. One of these men says his wife is not getting her...

Embarked for France. The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe in World War I. During the United Stat...

On board an American destroyer. A five inch gun and its crew. United States Navy operations during World War I began on April 6, 1917, after the forma...

Re-educating wounded. Blind French soldiers learning to make baskets. The disabled veteran was not seen in popular culture as a partial or limited per...

French Refugee Children. While waiting for train, children were fed with bread and milk from American Red Cross soldiers canteen, circa 1917-19. A ref...

Has eleven sons in service. Ike Sims of Atlanta, Georgia, 87 years old, has eleven sons in the service, circa 1917-19. A service flag or service banne...

An old French couple visiting their former house in the devastated region, vacated by the Germans, find a mass of stone and debris, representing what...

School children holding one of the large heads of cabbage raised in the War garden of Public School 88, Borough of Queens, New York City. The garden c...

"He did his duty. No finer military organization than the Marine Corps exists in the world. George Dewey. Admiral of the Navy. Will You? Join for acti...

"Let Your Fruit Trees Save Sugar". The United States did not have food rationing in WWI. Through slogans such as "Food Will Win the War", "Meatless Mo...

"Die Wacht am Rhein (The Watch on the Rhine)" "Die Wacht am Rhein" is a German patriotic anthem. Patriotism is generally cultural attachment to one's...

"Save Seed For Victory. Start Right - NOW- In the Field Good Seed Wins. From unknown seed Defeat. From Home grown, Field Selected Well Preserved Seed...

The United States did not have food rationing in WWI. Through slogans such as "Food Will Win the War", "Meatless Mondays", and "Wheatless Wednesdays",...

"Eat More Cottage Cheese...You'll Need Less Meat...A Postal Card Will Bring Recipes...Cottage Cheese or Meat? Ask Your Pocketbook!" The United States...

"Ring it Again. Buy a United States Government Bond of the Second Liberty Loan of 1917. Help Your Country and Yourself." A Liberty Bond was a war bond...

That Liberty Shall Not Perish From The Earth: Buy Liberty Bonds. Fourth Liberty Loan , circa 1918. A Liberty Bond was a war bond that was sold in the...

Some of the men of the 369th who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action. Left to right. Front row: Private Ed Williams, Herbert Taylor, Priva...

Band of the 814th Infantry Leaving the Celtic After Her Arrival. Lieutenant Maxom and his band of the 814th Infantry, with troops, who had seen hard f...

369th Infantry was the first New York regiment to parade as veterans of Great War. General view of parade and reviewing stand, 1919. The 369th Infantr...

Anxious crowds gathered in the streets, fire escapes and roofs awaiting glimpse of 369th Infantry in its welcome home parade. The 369th Infantry Regim...

369th Infantry troops and some of the 370th Infantry, Illinois troops, return to New York City, 1919. The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 15th N...

United States Army Hospital Center Mars-sur-Allier, Nievre, France 1918. Interior view shows narrow room with one window in center of back wall over a...

Wounded Marine lying on a stretcher in a trench is being treated for a head wound, Toul sector. Toul was also the primary base of the Air Service, Uni...

132nd Infantry in front line trench, Forges, October 3, 1918 U.S. Signal Corps photo. A line of soldiers waiting in a trench are peering through a wal...

First aid station directly behind front line, 1st Division, Nissy sur Bois, July 17, 1918 U.S. Signal Corps photo. A large group of soldiers, some sit...

Interior view of a bombed-out church: many soldiers lay on stretchers on the floor; other soldiers move about, some tend the wounded; gaping holes in...

The Ambulance Company (27th Infantry Division was a unit of the Army National Guard) administering first aid at an advance dressing station in France...

A group of men with above knee amputations are standing in the courtyard between two buildings; straps over their shoulders are attached to a prosthes...

Ambulances carrying wounded to Field Hospital No. 1, Neuilly, June 7, 1918 U.S. Signal Corps photo. A field hospital is a large mobile medical unit, o...

Carrying wounded men aboard a hospital train at Hareville, April 27, 1918 U.S. Signal Corps photo. Hospital trains began historically as troop trains,...

Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat department. American Red Cross Hospital No 112, Auteuil, Paris, France, 1918-1919. The most important volunteer group in Ame...

Hunting for cooties, near Nantillois, France. Two soldiers in uniform sitting on the ground examining an article of clothing for the presence of lice....

Stretcher bearers removing a wounded soldier from Vaux, France, July 22, 1918 U.S. Signal Corps photo. Four soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a stre...

Truckload of slightly wounded men of the 79th Division watch German prisoners pass by near Malancourt, France, September 28, 1918 U.S. Signal Corps ph...

Baking bread for the troops U.S. Signal Corps photo, 1918. A soldier places a block of bread loaves on a wooden rack to cool, behind him another soldi...

Chaplain T.R. White is standing before mass burial site for soldiers that died while at American Red Cross Evacuation Hospital Number 114, Fleury sur...

Showing a cloud of unidentified (poisonous?) gas produced by mobile cylinders during World War I. The Hague Declaration of 1899 and the Hague Conventi...

Delousing plant at U.S. Army Camp Hospital no. 11, St. Nazaire, France during World War I. Lice infestation was the norm in the trenches, it is estima...

Enlisted men wearing box respirators while playing baseball. U.S. Army. Signal Corps photo, 1918. The gas mask is used to protect the wearer from inha...

Typhoid vaccine for U.S. soldiers. Brigadier General Frederick Fuller Russell was a U.S. Army physician who perfected a typhoid vaccine in 1909. In 19...

Nurses in gas masks at the trenches, Germany, 1916. During WWI thousands of women served at home and overseas as Nurses working in military hospitals...

Nurses at U.S. Army Camp Hospital No. 11, 1918. During World War One thousands of women served at home and overseas as Nurses working in military hosp...

U.S. American Red Cross Hospital No. 9, Paris, France Sterilizer for clothing and bedding, used for skin and venereal diseases. The most important vol...

World War I battalion aid station. During combat or training operations, military units may establish aid stations behind front lines to provide medic...