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

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

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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

One of the new American armored vehicles

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

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