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Curtiss JN-4 Jenny trainer at Hicks Field in 1918 Hicks Field (Camp Taliaferro Field #1) is a former World War I military airfield, located 5.6 miles (9.0 km) North-northwest of Saginaw, Texas . It operated as a training field for the Air Service, United States Army between 1917 until 1920.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
Map -- Camp Logan (circa, 1917) Map 24th infantry camp; Houston, Texas, showing bullet holes in vicinity (circa 1917) Map of Buffalo Bayou area - Camp Logan Riots (circa 1917) Camp Logan was a World War I –era army training camp in Houston , Texas , named after U.S. Senator and Civil War General John A. Logan . [ 1 ]
Doughboys of the 56th Infantry during bayonet practice at Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas, July 17, 1918. Shortly after the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, Waco was chosen as a site for a military training camp. 10,700 acres of cotton fields and black land farms were chosen as the site for construction.
Texas Rangers and vigilante ranchers are blamed for gunning down 15 unarmed men and boys of Mexican descent, but evidence points to another possible accomplice. Army bullets unearthed at site of ...
The Hundred Days Offensive (8 August to 11 November 1918) was a series of massive Allied offensives that ended the First World War.Beginning with the Battle of Amiens (8–12 August) on the Western Front, the Allies pushed the Imperial German Army back, undoing its gains from the German spring offensive (21 March – 18 July).
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed in a railroad car, in the Compiègne Forest near the town of Compiègne, that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany.