PASSCHENDAELE, Belgium (Reuters) - Relatives read letters and diary excerpts from soldiers who died in the World War One battle of Passchendaele when they gathered on Monday for a ceremony to mark 100 ...
In World War I, orders had to travel by pigeon, signal lamp, or human runner. Radios didn’t exist yet - and phone lines were quickly destroyed by shellfire. This video explores the communication ...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Back in 1926, nobody balked when President Calvin Coolidge dedicated Kansas City's towering Liberty Memorial as the U.S. national memorial to World War One. But as ...