A Joint Resolution of April 6, 1917, Public Resolution 65-1, 40 STAT 1, Declaring that a State of War Exists Between the Imperial German Government and the Government and the People of the United States and Making Provision to Prosecute the Same
Company A, Ninth Machine Gun Battalion, Chteau Thierry, France.
This strategic operation map is from the Records of the American Expeditionary Forces.
American Evacuation Hospital Number 2, Baccarat, France.
In this letter, Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk sought advice from the Bureau of Immigration based on the concern of the Ambassador of Paris. The ambassador inquired as to whether women who were or had been prostitutes were allowed to enter the United States under the Immigration Act of 1917.
Germany's powerful fleet of submarines continued to sink many ships, even as the Allied armies pushed forward toward Germany. Among the ships sunk by the German submarines were Red Cross vessels carrying wounded soldiers. Cartoonist Clifford Berryman uses the recent sinking of another Red Cross vessel to show the callousness of Germany's military leadership. In this cartoon a German officer stands atop a submarine's conning tower and watches a sinking Red Cross ship and innocent nurses desperately seeking help as their lifeboat also sinks.
A message from the from the Ligue Patriotique des Francaises, Du Havre.
One of the heroes of the battle of Chateau Thierry - William Stevenson, of Miles City, Montana, top sergeant, Sharpshooter in the first line trenches Marine Co. D, 4th Regiment, wounded three times, gassed twice in the battle of Chateau Thierry, awarded the "Croixde Guerre" and decorated by General Atkinson in Bordeau for bravery in capturing 27 Machine Gun nests at Chateau Thierry with four other Marines.
American snipers of the 166th Infantry (formerly 4th Infantry, Ohio National Guard), in nest picking off Germans on the outer edge of town. Villers sur Fre, France.
Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur.