Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...

Canadian troops stand ready to repel a German attack on the trenches. One soldier keeps a look out using a periscope to see over edge of the trench. Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1.

World War I continues to be an opportunity to look ... to fire multiple rounds quickly helped American forces clear out German trenches, leading to the nickname. First designed by John Browning ...

They gained just three square miles of territory. British and German troops faced each other's trenches only separated by a few hundred yards of “no-man’s land”. The British force consisted ...

During the recovery of bodies following the Battle of Marne in France in 1914, his pipes were accidentally set off, alerting ...

Benning was part of American assaults on the toughest German defenses by soldiers who fought to take ... Cross for their service in the 16th Infantry Regiment during World War I.Steven Clay, an Army ...

Fred Benning, a Nebraska native awarded the military's second-highest honor for his battlefield courage as an 18-year-old ...

Dana Klabenes, the city clerk in Neligh, Nebreska, holds her hand under a photo of former Mayor Fred Benning, a WWI veteran who is ... assaults on the toughest German defenses by soldiers who ...

Benning was part of American assaults on the toughest German defenses by soldiers who ... service in the 16th Infantry Regiment during World War I.Steven Clay, an Army veteran in Leavenworth ...

The new namesake is Fred Benning, a Nebraska native awarded the military's second-highest honor for his battlefield courage as an 18-year-old corporal in 1918, near the end of World War I.

In both World Wars, people assume the Allied Powers had a crushing advantage and would have inevitably won the conflicts. World War I, however, was almost a victory for Germany. Far from the American ...