Patrick Gregory reports on the opening of a new exhibition at the American Museum in Britain commemorating US involvement in the First World War.
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Final ‘100 Cities/100 Memorials’ US Centennial awards announced
Fifty more memorials in US cities commemorating America’s Great War dead have been officially designated, and awarded grants, as national ‘WW1 Centennial Memorials’.
Continue readingSeicheprey – America’s WWI Baptism of Fire
On the Centennial of America’s first significant clash of the Great War, Patrick Gregory tells the story of the encounter at Seicheprey, on 20 April 1918.
Continue readingSeicheprey – America’s WWI Baptism of Fire
On the Centennial of America's first significant clash of the Great War, Patrick Gregory tells the story of the encounter at Seicheprey, on 20 April 1918.
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Spring 1918 – The US air effort takes off
The rise of American power in WWI, told by Patrick Gregory on the Centennial of ‘Ace of Aces’ Eddie Rickenbacker scoring his first victory in the skies.
Continue readingSpring 1918 – The US air effort takes off
The rise of American power in WWI, told by Patrick Gregory on the Centennial of 'Ace of Aces' Eddie Rickenbacker scoring his first victory in the skies.
Continue readingStars & Stripes return to Islay, 100 years on
An American flag made by Scottish islanders to honour US soldiers of the Great War who perished in a U-boat attack has travelled back to Islay for international commemorations taking place on Friday (May 4).
Continue readingNavies pay combined tribute to ‘Tuscania’ and ‘Otranto’ off Islay
Scotland’s commemorations for the American and British dead of the WW1 troopships SS Tuscania and HMS Otranto got under way with tributes at sea by the British, US, French and German navies.
Continue readingFlanders exhibitions, ‘1918 – The Final Offensive’
Three exhibitions now under way in Zonnebeke, Heuvelland and Waregem highlight different aspects of the last year of the First World War in Flanders.
Continue reading100 years ago: Battle of Cantigny – America shows its mettle
The first full US-led offensive of the Great War began at Cantigny in the Somme on 28 May 1918, as Patrick Gregory reports.
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