According to new research from Duke University, the best helmet to protect soldiers from shockwaves and direct impacts may be a French helmet from WWI, which outperformed its modern equivalent.

Louis de Cazenave, 110, a World War I veteran who took part in the Battle of the Somme, died Sunday, leaving one known French survivor of the 1914-18 conflict.

Part I of a three-part series, "The Big Red One: Nearly a century of war". A few years into World War I, British and French forces were suffering. Beset by a crushing German offensive and a large ...

African American National Guard Soldiers of New York's 15th Infantry Regiment arrived in France in December 1917. African-American WWI 'Harlem Hell Fighters' proved their mettle, patriotism in combat ...

The remains of a World War One soldier that were found during building work in France have been laid to rest. Serjeant Henry ...

How a World War II Private Accidentally Joined the French Resistance Pfc. Stephen Weiss, third from left, in France, 1944, after being cut off from his U.S. army unit.