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United States Navy operations during World War I began on April 6, 1917, after the formal declaration of war on the German Empire. The United States Navy focused on countering enemy U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea while convoying men and supplies to France and Italy.
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.
John J. Pershing [19] – Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces; William Sims – Commander of all American naval forces in Europe; Hunter Liggett – Commander of the I Corps (1917–1918) and the First American Army (1918) Robert Lee Bullard – Commander of the Second American Army (1918)
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 War College Review 61.1 (2008): 50–67. Online Archived 17 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine; Leeman, William, and John B Hattendorf, eds. Forging the Trident: Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Navy (2020) excerpt ch 9. Love, Robert W., Jr. History of the US Navy: Volume One 1775–1941 (Stackpole, 1992) 1:434–56. McMahon ...
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.
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 first USS Henderson (AP-1) was a transport in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II.In 1943, she was converted to a hospital ship and commissioned as USS Bountiful (AH-9).