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Over the next five months the US Navy laid 56,571 mines of the total 70,177 planted during the Barrage. [24] Rear Admiral Lewis Clinton-Baker, commanding the Royal Navy minelaying force at the time, described the barrage as the "biggest mine planting stunt in the world's history." The official statistics on lost German submarines compiled on ...
I Want YOU for the Navy at Women in the World Wars, by Howard Chandler Christy (edited by Durova) Allied bombing over German lines at Aviation in World War I , by unknown author Australian infantry with Small Box Respirators at Chemical weapons in World War I , by Frank Hurley (edited by Yummifruitbat )
Naval Officers of World War I is a large oil on canvas group portrait painting by Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope, completed in 1921. It was commissioned by South African financier Sir Abraham Bailey, 1st Baronet to commemorate the Royal Navy officers who commanded British fleets in the First World War.
Map of the World showing the participants in World War I. Those fighting along with the Allied Powers (at one point or another) are depicted in blue, the Central Powers in orange, and neutral countries in grey. The Allied leaders of World War I were the political and military figures that fought for or supported the Allied Powers during World ...
American military personnel of World War I (8 C, 361 P) Australian military personnel of World War I (6 C, 1,067 P) Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I (3 C, 554 P, 2 F)
Commodore John Barry – "Father of the American Navy" W.W. Behrens, Jr. – earth-sciences futurist; Hale Boggs – member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans and House majority leader; Jeremy Michael Boorda – admiral, former Chief of Naval Operations; Henry L. Brandon – naval aviator and oil executive
The fleet's primary mission was to make friendly courtesy visits to numerous countries while displaying new U.S. naval power to the world; Roosevelt sought to demonstrate growing American military prowess and blue-water naval capabilities. Another goal was to deter a threatened war with Japan amid growing tensions around 1900.
American women never served in combat roles (as did some Russians), but many were eager to serve as nurses and support personnel in uniform. [70] During the course of the war, 21,498 U.S. Army nurses (American military nurses were all women then) served in military hospitals in the United States and overseas.