Gathering secrets of the German submarines
In May 1918, the German submarine U-90 attacked and sank the U.S.S. President Lincoln. Lieutenant Edouard V.M. Isaacs was captured and taken prisoner. While a...
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...
In honor of Private Looking Back
This application for a headstone contains valuable information about the life of Pvt. Isaac Looking Back--killed north of Flirey, France, on September 12, 1918....
Lady Liberty’s challenge
This poster, created by Charles R. Macaulay for the Advertising Section of the Educational Division of the U.S. Food Administration challenges viewers to purchase...
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...
Louis Armstrong registers for the draft
Future jazz great Louis Armstrong of New Orleans was among nearly 24 million men aged 18–45 who registered for the draft during 1917–18, a requirement of the new...