Wound Shock. The bane of medical officers in France during World War I. “wound shock” is a condition of “lowered vitality” which follows wounds, even trivial ones. Unchecked, it causes death.

Today’s soldiers in Ukraine have dug trenches winding through the 600-plus miles of the front line and are sustaining injuries similar to those of WWI.

Butenas, who served in Company E, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division, was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action on July 18, 1918, in France, when he was 24 years old.

Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., is home of Headquarters, Second Air Force, and the 81st Training Wing of the Air Education and Training Command. (U.S. Air Force) ...

Nate Murray, 4, holds a sparkler at a home in Scarborough, Maine, Wednesday, July 4, 2012. Sparklers, hot enough to burn some ...

Plastic surgery Back in World War I, plastic surgery emerged as a way to treat soldiers with facial injuries. “The modern idea of plastic surgery and the techniques used today originated in WWI ...

The explosions wake me up at night. I’m back in the war. I almost roll off the bed to lie on the floor. The enemy is at it ...

New tariffs push U.S. rates past 1960s levels, with more levies set to exceed pre-WWI highs, says Bob Elliott. Global trade faces a major shock as retaliation looms, threatening U.S. growth and ...

The World War I veteran was found dead from a single gunshot wound in 1977, but for decades, his murder went unsolved.

Wounds and mustard gas could not stop Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Orlando Petty in 1918, but they may have caught up with him in 1932.