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Letters
While WW1 was going on over 12 millions letters were sent to soldiers. Many soldiers were limited to what they could say because of the confidentiality. Many family's missed the soldiers and lots of soldiers never made it home. -
Trench Warfare
No one really invented trench warfare. The first people to do trench warfare were the Germans and they were fighting France and the British. The Germans were being pushed back and they dug into the ground to avoid machine guns and artillery. -
Armistice
The Armistice was signed and there was no need for guns. The regiment came to the United States Leaving France and they made it to the U.S. on December 23, 1918. The Armistice was very important because this was a ceasefire which stopped the fighting on the western front. -
Journal of Captain E.M. Bill
Lots of people in the war didn't just serve in one location. Earl served in Fort Schuyler, New York; France; Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia. I think that this is important because this shows that a lot of the men had to go to a lot of places and they had to keep there guard up the entire time. -
Journal of Captain E.M. Bill
Earl’s unit of service Battery A, 74th Regiment, Coast Artillery Corps. Earl was commissioned in the army in 1917. A regiment is a military unit. The size varies from the country and by how ever many people are needed. The regiment are soldiers at the front line. -
Staying Neutral
In the beginning of WW1 the U.S. stayed neutral and they decided not to enter the war. President Woodrow Wilson decided to keep peace in the country. The United States decided to enter the war because Germany sunk a British ship with 100 American Soldiers aboard. -
Journal of Captain E.M. Bill
There were multiple branches fighting in the war but Earl was in the Army. Most of the Army soldiers who listed were sent to the Western Front. The army men at the front line play a very important part in the war because they would work as ambulance drivers, cooks, engineers and they were also medics. -
Journal of Captain E.M. Bill
The 74th regiment was assigned to railway artillery and they would have the 400mm or the 340mm railway guns. This soldiers training was not yet complete when the Armistice was signed. There wasn't any action in France so the fleet left and went back to america. The 74th regiment sailed back to america with the 73th regiment and they made it to New York on December 22, 1918. -
WW1
The reason why WW1 started was because of all of the alliances and once the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand took place, it triggered lots of conflict. This conflict was major because Germany was in an alliance with Austria-Hungary and this was known as the Central Powers. Britain, France, Ireland and Russia were in an alliance with each other and this was known as the Triple Entente. This was called the Domino Effect. -
Branches of Military
The Military has lots of roles in WW1 because there are branches of the military. There are five military branches, the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The navy mostly takes care of the sea area and the army is used to defend their country, or attack another country's army "usually by land". The other 3 are just as important. -
Machinery
Lots of new weapons were invented in WW1. For example the Flamethrower was invented in WW1 and used against the French. These new inventions of weapons are very important because without the new machinery and technology we would have had a tougher time winning the war. Many more inventions were created like the poison gas, tanks and aircraft's. -
Journal of Captain E.M. Bill
Earl was a Captain which was the highest ranking. Earl was never a prisoner of war. Prisoner of war meant that a person who was captured by the enemy and taken prisoner. During WW1 the US held 150,000 prisoners.
