Gone down in flames
This simple form describes a deadly battle during a September 28, 1918, patrol by five planes from the 147th Aero Squadron near Romange, France. After attacking...
Headed for shore…and war
In this D-day photograph, troops disembark from a landing craft on the Normandy coast. Coast Guardsmen manned the landing craft, which debarked troops near shore and...
Impassable
This French bridge was damaged during the Allied invasion of France in 1944. The Allies landed along the southern French coast on August 15, 1944. This photograph was...
Instructions to American Peace Commissioners
During the Revolutionary War, Congress directed the peace commissioners “to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace or truce” without the knowledge of the...
Lady Liberty from the air
This aerial photograph of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe Island, New York City, was taken on March 11, 1927. “Liberty Enlightening the World” was a gift from the...
Left behind
On September 19, 1918, Lieutenant Colonel R.D. Garrett, Chief Signal Officer, 42nd Infantry Division, tested a telephone left behind by the Germans in their hasty...
Lost Battalion
On October 2, 1918, Maj. Charles Whittlesey sent this message to his commander via a carrier pigeon named Cher Ami. Whittlesey’s troops, sometimes known as the Lost...