Armor - Body and Helmets - Armor for American soldiers. U.S. soldiers in the trenches may soon resember the picture here shown, which illustrates a new type of armor with which the war department experimented in 1917. Bids were asked to furnish helmets, such as this, made of a special alloy steel, 1

Armor - Body and Helmets - New armor for American soldiers. U.S. soldiers in the trenches may soon resember the picture here shown, which illustrates a new type of armor with which the war department experimented in 1917. Bids were asked to furnish helmets, such as this, made of a special alloy stee

One of the new American armored vehicles

Medical Department - Restoration Work - Apparatus - The wounded man shown in the picture has a planter attached to the hand apparatus. He lives at a home in Paris kept by the Red Cross

Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Masks for protection against influenza. 1700 of these masks were distributed by policemen to all police stations, to be used whenever duty calls

Drills - Trench Warfare - Scene at trailing camp at Plattsburg, New York. Photo shows one of the officers in a pit built by the men in training. Note the wire entanglements. 1917

111-SC-1886 - Americans In Paris - American automobile unit attending presentation of arms. This photograph shows our boys equipped with steel helmets to be used in the trenches

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Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Influenza masks worn by soldiers in camp. Soldiers at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, wearing the influenza masks. The fort was quarantined during the worst days of the epidemic