One hundred years ago, the Great War entered its final phase of combat. The Allied Powers launched an offensive against the Germans along the entire Western Front in the fall of 1918. The American ...

No other ace, even the dreaded Richthofen, had ever come close to that.” — Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, 26 kills, Medal of ...

2018-11-10T22:00:06-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/710/20181110220330003_hd.jpgHistorian Mitchell Yockelson and French World War I scholar Guillaume Moizan ...

Coming at the very end of WWI, the six-week Meuse-Argonne offensive was the bloodiest single battle in American history, killing 26,000 doughboys and wounding another 95,000. In Lengel's gripping ...

The only extended campaign American soldiers fought as an independent force during the first world war was the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Launched in late September 1918 as part of the final allied ...

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ROMAGNE-SOUS-MONTFAUCON, France – On final morning of World War I, U.S. Gen. John J. Pershing was not eager to stop fighting. After all, if one nation had momentum after the first global war's four ...

A hundred years ago today, September 26th, the greatest artillery bombardment in U.S. history—more shells in a few hours than had been fired in the entire American Civil War—fell silent and 350,000 ...

One hundred years ago, more than a million U.S. troops joined in the final offensive of World War I — and tens of thousands of Americans were killed. A hundred years ago today, the largest and ...

The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was a deadly battle in which tens of thousands US soldiers were killed in France as part of an allied effort to push the German army out of the country. The deadly battle ...

It’s strange that a military graveyard should be so lovely, but lovely is the only way to describe the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, 26 miles northwest of Verdun. As exquisite as any French park or ...