Article provides a description of life and service at Base Hospital 85 during World War I, told from the perspective of Guy Rowley Moore and Rexford B. Cragg, members of the United States Medical Corps.

Article uses the story of W. K. Maxfield to share the exploits of the 36th Infantry Division at the Battle of Saint-Étienne during World War I.

This article chronicles William T. Ponder's training and testing in battle against the backdrop of World War I aviation history. Ponder served with the French Aviation Service as part of the Lafayette Flying Corps and the U.S. Air Service where he became Oklahoma's first aviation war hero.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sergeant Thomas J. Wilson Jr., with the 6th Army Group in France."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Defending world and U.S. figure skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi of Fremont, Calif., has a serious look on her face as she leaves a practice session early Saturday morning in Albertville, France, Friday, rival skater Midori Ito of Japan told reporters she would win the gold, setting up a showdown in the womans singles competition which begins next week."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Major General William S. Rombough, Chief signal officer, ETO, USA, presents certificate of merit award to Maj. Ansel J. Challener, OKC, in ceremony in Paris, France."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This picture a scene from Hearst News No. 29 shows the historic scene in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles at the signing of the Peace treaty. President Wilson is shown affixing his signature to the document which has just been brought to him."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Keeping up with news from France by short wave radio are Loren Hill, El Dorado. Ark, and John Tison, Paris, France."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "U. S. Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe criticized international air fares Thursday as too high and too rigid, and called on airlines to pass on to travelers the big savings offered by the new jumbo jets. Pan American and TWA were quick to challenge the new secretary, however."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Former champion Guillermo Vilas lost to a man 15 years his junior in the first round of the French Open Tennis championships Tuesday and promptly announced his retirement."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a coast Guard landing boat."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here is a general view of ceremonies at the famed arc de Triomphe as Paris paid homage to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 14th."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "TRAVEL POSTERS give notice of the places Miss Patty Tullius hopes to see when she leaves Thursday for France, where she will attend the University of Grenoble for a year."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Scene on deck of a coast guard-manned LCI boat, before she rolled her shell-torn hull and sank off the coast of France, between the furled stretchers and the barrels which shows bullet bashes lies the body of a dead American soldier, while the wounded x can be seen in the companionway."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "With a heavy list to a port, this coast guard LCI craft pulls alongside a transport to evacuate her troops and wounded, just before she capsized and x sank during first invasion day."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "You'd think the department of agriculture would pick a man who raises poultry to represent the U.S. poultry industry at the ninth World Poultry congress next month in Paris."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nine years ago, Americans hit the Normandy beach as liberators."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Canadian Defense Minister James L. Ralston troops paid a high cost for information gained at theat occupied French post August 19."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The crew of this fatally hit coast guard LCI craft has just vacuated troops and wounded to an assault transport and pulled away from the coast."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "American troops waded through the surf to the Normandy shore from their landing craft on June 6,1944, as the Allies landed in France to open the final phase of World War II."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "German delegates at Versailles listening to M. Clemenceau's speech in the Trianon Palace Hotel, at which the Peace Treaty was handed them, to be followed by the formal close of the World war."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The memory of the scene above was in the mind of Adolf Hitler Friday as he laid drastic peace terms before the French nation. It shows French leaders leaving the railway car in the Compiegne forest on Nov. 11, 1918, after they had dictated peace terms to his beaten neighbor Friday. Gen. Maxime Weygand, present commander-in -chief of French armies, is second from the left, Marshal Foch fourth from left."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Statue head at left on display is the Louvre in Paris is an attempt to dplicate the Aphrodite of Cnidus by Praxiteles."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia salutes on arrival at Orly Field in Paris today to attend services for De Gaulle."