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  • Signals Between Aeroplanes and Artillery

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This Royal Flying Corps instruction book and signal guide was produced on heavy card stock and provided quick reference for pilots and observers directing artillery fire by airplane. This guide belonged to Lt. John A. Sperry, a pilot with the 139th Aero

  • Scrapbook photos of Master Sgt. Carl T. Hale

    Note: This item is currently in storage.Master Sgt. Carl T. Hale, one of the first enlisted men assigned to the Aviation Section of the Army Signal Corps, was assigned to the Wright section first at College Park, Md., and later at Texas City, Texas. This series of photos depicts early flying

  • The Rhine and its Legends

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This sightseeing brochure was produced by the YMCA for soldiers serving with the American Army of Occupation headquartered at Coblenz, Germany. American troops first reached the Rhine in December 1919 and occupied the area to ensure the cessation of

  • Quentin Roosevelt Nieuport 28 Souvenirs

    Note: This item is currently in storage.These six pieces of aircraft were taken from Lt. Quentin Roosevelt's Nieuport 28 at the crash site by Sgt. Mark Thatcher on July 14, 1918. There are three small pieces of painted aircraft fabric (red, white, blue), a small piece of wood and two pieces of

  • Popular Songs of the AEF

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This song booklet, compiled and distributed by the YMCA, was a staple among the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.Click here to return to the Featured World War I Artifacts index.

  • Neutrality League Announcement No. 2, 1914

    Note: This item is currently in storage.Britain's decision to declare war on Germany on Aug. 4, 1914, was polarizing. The Neutrality League, founded by Sir Norman Angell, appealed to the masses though newspaper advertisements. This ad, published on Aug. 5, 1914, in The Daily Citizen urged Englishmen

  • Mexican Border Service Medal

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This Mexican Border Service Medal was awarded to Gen. Nathan Twining (Oct. 11, 1897-March 29, 1982), who served as a corporal with Company H of the Third Oregon Infantry (National Guard) on the U.S.-Mexico border from June through September 1916. In 1919 he

  • King George V Letter to American Troops

    Note: This item is currently in storage.By the time the United States joined the effort in 1917, Great Britain had been at war with the Central Powers since August, 1914. The bulk of Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing's American Expeditionary Forces began arriving at the Western Front in the spring of

  • Lt. Howard G. Mayes Prisoner of War Correspondence

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This collection of papers pertaining to Lt. Howard G. Mayes poignantly illustrates the human cost of the war effort. This selection of correspondence illustrates what it was like for many American families to learn a loved one had been injured, captured or

  • Lt. Harold R. Harris Letter

    Note: This item is currently in storage.In September 1917, Lt. Harold R. Harris, who had recently completed Ground School at the University of California Berkeley, was en-route to Italy, to assist in establishing the 8th Aviation Instruction Center for the Allied Expeditionary Force in Foggia.