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NAMUOT_180701_014.JPG: "Over There"
George M. Cohan, 1917
Johnny, get your gun, get your gun, get your gun.
Take it on the run, on the run, on the run.
Hear them calling you and me,
Every Son of Liberty.
Hurry right away, no delay, go today.
Make your Daddy glad to have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy's in line.
Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming
The drums rum-tumming everywhere.
So prepare, say a prayer,
Send the word, send the word to beware –
We'll be over, we're coming over,
And we won't come back till it's over, over there.
Johnny, get your gun, get your gun, get your gun.
Johnny, show the "Hun" you're a son-of-a-gun.
Hoist the flag and let her fly
Yankee Doodle[10] do or die.
Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit.
Yankee to the ranks from the towns and the tanks.
Make your Mother proud of you
And the old red-white-and-blue.
NAMUOT_180701_017.JPG: Return of the Mayflower
by Bernard Gribble, 1918
Noted British marine artist Bernard Gribble painted the 4 May 1917 arrival of the US Navy's Destroyer Division 8 in Queenstown, Ireland. The six destroyers were the first American warships dispatched to the United Kingdom in the Great War.
NAMUOT_180701_036.JPG: Great White Fleet Map
c 1909
The red lines on this world map track the cruise of the Great White Fleet from its December 1907 departure from Hampton Roads, VA until its triumphant return in February 1909. This historic 'round-the-world cruise demonstrated to friend and foe alike that a powerful American battlefleet based on the East Coast could reach the farthest corner of Asia and the Pacific, even before the construction of the Panama Canal.
NAMUOT_180701_051.JPG: The Great White Fleet (1907-09)
NAMUOT_180701_058.JPG: The Battle of Jutland
NAMUOT_180701_066.JPG: Sinking of Lusitania
NAMUOT_180701_073.JPG: Karl Goetz' Lusitania Medallion
1915
This German medal hails the sinking of RMS Lusitania by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915. On the obverse, under the inscription, "No Contraband" (Keine Bannware), the ship's decks are incorrectly depicted carrying aircraft that made Lusitania a legitimate target. On the reverse, death sells tickets to passengers under the words: "Business Above All" (Geschaft uber alles).
The designer, Karl Goetz, made several hundred copies of the medal with the incorrect date of 5 May before re-striking it with the correct date of 7 May (Mai). Citing the discrepancy between the two dates as proof of the attack was pre-planned, English authorities produced 250,000 copies of Goetz' first medal and used them as propaganda to highlight the inhumanity of the Germans.
NAMUOT_180701_114.JPG: Lusitania Recruitment Poster, "When You Fire, Remember This"
1917
NAMUOT_180701_121.JPG: Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages
His Majesty's Committee on Alleged German Outrages, 1915
NAMUOT_180701_129.JPG: Chart: The North Sea
1915
From 1914 until Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, a dozen armed British merchant cruisers enforced a distant blockade of the German coast in the North Sea. By the time the blockade ended, they had boarded nearly 13,000 merchant ships, seizing all contraband, including foodstuffs, bound for Germany. The red squares overlaid on this chart were used by patrolling ships to indicate their position without revealing their latitude and longitude.
NAMUOT_180701_136.JPG: German Type U-9 Submarine (Unterseeboot) U-9
This model represents one of the most famous submarines in history. Under the command of Kapitan-leutnant Otto Weddigen, the German submarine U-9 discovered a squadron of three British armored cruisers, HMS Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy, steaming in formation in the North Sea on 22 September 1914. Weddigen submerged and fired four torpedoes, sinking all three cruisers within a single hour, resulting in the loss of 1,459 British sailors. Three weeks later, U-9 sank another British cruiser, HMS Hawke. For her accomplishments, the Kaiser awarded U-9 the Iron Cross, one of only two German vessels so distinguished in the war.
NAMUOT_180701_151.JPG: Flight from Antwerp
by Henry Reuterdahl, 1914
NAMUOT_180701_160.JPG: U.S. Enters the First World War
NAMUOT_180701_164.JPG: USS Ward (DD-139) Under Construction
1918
These three photographs document the construction of USS Ward (DD_139), one of 111 Wickes Class "flush deck" or "four piper" American destroyers built in 1917-19. Her keel was laid on 15 May 1918, and only seventeen days later, on 1 June, she was launched at Mare Island Navy Yard, CA.
Decommissioned in 1921, Ward was recommissioned in January 1941 and ordered to Pearl Harbor, HI. On the morning of 7 December, several hours prior to the Japanese air attack, she sighted and sank an enemy two-man midget submarine, earning the honor of firing the first American shots in World War II.
NAMUOT_180701_179.JPG: Washington Post, 7 April 1917
NAMUOT_180701_194.JPG: Women Yeomen in the Navy
NAMUOT_180701_201.JPG: Commander Taussig and Destroyer Division 8
NAMUOT_180701_223.JPG: Admiral William S. Sims (1858-1936)
NAMUOT_180701_230.JPG: Admiral Hugh Rodman
by Cordelia Byrd Ruffin, 1930
NAMUOT_180701_236.JPG: "Is there any law that says a yeoman must be a man?"
-- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, 1916
NAMUOT_180701_243.JPG: Submarine Chaser SC-200
NAMUOT_180701_253.JPG: Medal Commemorating Captain Lieutenant Otto Weddigen, 1915
NAMUOT_180701_269.JPG: Medal Commemorating Captain Lieutenant Otto Weddigen, 1915
NAMUOT_180701_276.JPG: Getting "Over There"
NAMUOT_180701_287.JPG: "Every Girl Pulling for Victory"
by Edward Penfield, 1918
NAMUOT_180701_293.JPG: Soldiers Going "Over There"
circa 1917-1918
Army troops on their way to Europe eat an open-air meal on deck as sailors look on. The bulky life jackets worn by the soldiers were made of cork.
NAMUOT_180701_299.JPG: "The Ships Are Coming"
by James H. Daugherty, c 1917-1919
NAMUOT_180701_307.JPG: "A navy second to none."
-- President Woodrow Wilson, 1916
NAMUOT_180701_316.JPG: "All Together! Enlist in the Navy"
by Henry Reuterdahl, 1917
NAMUOT_180701_325.JPG: Henry Reuterdahl, the Navy's Official Artist
NAMUOT_180701_331.JPG: "If You Want to Fight, Join the Marines"
by Howard Chandler Christy, 1918
NAMUOT_180701_343.JPG: "Don't Read American History -- Make It!"
by James Montgomery Flagg
NAMUOT_180701_349.JPG: "The Navy Put 'Em Across"
by Henry Reuterdahl, c 1917-1918
NAMUOT_180701_354.JPG: Report Prepared by Admiral Gleaves
August 1917
NAMUOT_180701_364.JPG: Admiral Albert Gleaves (1858-1937)
NAMUOT_180701_368.JPG: "Shoot Ships to Germany"
by Adolph Treidler, 1918
NAMUOT_180701_374.JPG: SS St. Louis in Dazzle Camouflage
1918
The US Navy acquired the 1894 passenger liner SS St. Louis in April 1918 and renamed her USS Louisville. Refitted as a troopship, she made seven transatlantic crossings between October 1918 and August 1919. She reverted back to her original name after the war and burned while being refitted the following year. This photograph shows her painted in dazzle camouflage during the last months of the Great War.
NAMUOT_180701_381.JPG: Camouflaged Freighters in Convoy
by Henry Reuterdahl, 1918
NAMUOT_180701_393.JPG: Dazzle Camouflage
NAMUOT_180701_397.JPG: USS Von Steuben -- Ocean Liner/Commerce Raider/Troopship
NAMUOT_180701_402.JPG: USS Texas (later BB-35)
by Peter F. Valerio
NAMUOT_180701_409.JPG: USS Oregon in Chase of Cristobal Colon during the Battle of Santiago, 1903
by Henry Reuterdahl
NAMUOT_180701_417.JPG: USS Allen, DD-66
NAMUOT_180701_426.JPG: The Fronts
NAMUOT_180701_430.JPG: "Premiers au Feu Means in French First to Fight"
by Charles B, Falls, 1918
NAMUOT_180701_438.JPG: "This Device Means US Marines"
by Charles B. Falls, c 1917-1919
NAMUOT_180701_448.JPG: Troops in Bunks on Transport Ship
c 1917-1919
NAMUOT_180701_459.JPG: The Battle of Belleau Wood
NAMUOT_180701_466.JPG: "Teufel Hunden"
by Charles B. Falls, 1918
This is one of several US Marine Corps recruiting posters designed by Charles B. Falls, an illustrator referred to by some critics as America's first true poster artist. Here he depicts a Marine bulldog chasing a terrified German dachshund with his tongue hanging out and his tail tucked between his legs. The title Teufel Hunden (Devil Dogs) refers to the nickname supposedly given to the Marines by the German soldiers they defeated at the Battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918.
NAMUOT_180701_470.JPG: World War I at the Naval Academy
NAMUOT_180701_476.JPG: Bancroft Hall as shown from an aerial view, c 1923 with the expanded World War I wings visible.
NAMUOT_180701_481.JPG: Shipmates Magazine
cover artist: Robert Reid, 1918
First issue of Shipmates: A Navy Magazine, published in September 1918.
NAMUOT_180701_489.JPG: The Prince of Wales visited the Academy just after the war. Pictures left to right are: Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt; Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels; the Prince; and on the far right is Admiral Scales.
NAMUOT_180701_496.JPG: Midshipman (later Lieutenant) Clarence Thomas (1886-1917), (USNA 1910) was the first U.S. naval officer to die in the war.
NAMUOT_180701_503.JPG: Halligan Hall, built in 1903 as the new Marine barracks, served as the location of the Navy's Post Graduate School both before and after the war.
NAMUOT_180701_505.JPG: Diary of Fourth Brigade, US Marine Corps, AEF
NAMUOT_180701_509.JPG: The Pennsy Bulletin: USS Pennsylvania
7 December 1919
NAMUOT_180701_513.JPG: Naval Academy, 1911, First Airplane by John McCrea
NAMUOT_180701_517.JPG: Midshipman (later Vice Admiral) John McCrea (1891-1990), (USNA 1915)
NAMUOT_180701_523.JPG: Naval Aviation Camp
NAMUOT_180701_525.JPG: Naval Reserve Training at the Academy
NAMUOT_180701_532.JPG: Naval Aviation
NAMUOT_180701_541.JPG: World War I Aviator Headgear
NAMUOT_180701_544.JPG: World War I Aviator Headgear
NAMUOT_180701_550.JPG: Lieutenant Isaacs' Report on his Time as a German Prisoner-of-War and His Escape
4 November 1918
NAMUOT_180701_554.JPG: Eugene Ely Standing on Deck of USS Pennsylvania
18 January 1911
On 14 November 1910, twenty-four-year-old civilian pilot Eugene Ely because the first person in history to fly a fixed wing aircraft off a ship, the light cruiser USS Birmingham. Two months later, on 18 January 1911, he recorded another first when he landed his Curtiss pushed biplane on a wooden platform built atop the after deck of the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania, marking the start of naval aviation. Here, he stands beside his plane shortly after his historic feat.
Ely died in a plane crash on 19 October 1911. More than two decades later, he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross "for extraordinary achievement as a pioneer civilian aviator and for his significant contribution to the development of aviation in the United States Navy."
NAMUOT_180701_563.JPG: Diagram Showing National Markings of Planes
June 1918
NAMUOT_180701_570.JPG: Army Dog Tag
c 1917-1919
The US Army authorized the use of identification tags, commonly called dog tags, in December 1906. Starting in 1916, all soldiers were issued two aluminum dog tags stamped with the bearer's name, rank, and unit to be worn around the neck; one to stay with the body of the deceased, and the other to be retained for record-keeping purposes. The Navy followed suit on 12 May 1917. This dog tag was issued to Pvt. Sandt from the 4th Company, Coast Artillery Corps.
NAMUOT_180701_575.JPG: British Blimp NS-7
c 1917-1918
A total of fourteen NS (North Sea) class non-rigid airships, or blimps, were made for the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in 1917 and 1918. Given their long flight endurance (twenty-four hours at fifty-seven miles per hour) and their ability to carry both bombs and machine guns, they escorted convoys and patrolled the Western Approaches to the British Isles in search of German U-boats. NS-7 was the last of its type, making its final flight on 25 November 1921.
NAMUOT_180701_579.JPG: British DH2 Biplane
c 1916-1918
NAMUOT_180701_586.JPG: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a United States Marine and his rifle."
-- General John Pershing, 1917
NAMUOT_180701_588.JPG: Scrapbook of USS Black Hawk
NAMUOT_180701_595.JPG: Rear Admiral Ralph Earle
by Marguerite Downing Savage, 1937
NAMUOT_180701_607.JPG: US Fourteen-Inch/.50 Caliber Railway Gun
1918
NAMUOT_180701_626.JPG: Surrender of the German Fleet, 1918
by Mary Kate Allen
This contemporary painting by Mary Kate Allen captures the official surrender of Germany's High Seas Fleet ten days after the signing of the Armistice.
Six months later, in June, fearing the Allies were about to invade Germany, the ships' officers and crews scuttled fifty-two of the seventy-four surface ships interred at Scapa Flow, Scotland to prevent them from being turned against their own countrymen.
NAMUOT_180701_637.JPG: "The Navy Took Them Over and the Navy Will Bring Them Back"
Lyrics: Howard Johnson
Music; Ira Schuster
27 November 1918
NAMUOT_180701_643.JPG: Troops on Ships Returning Home
1919
NAMUOT_180701_647.JPG: "Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken."
-- General John Pershing, 1918
NAMUOT_180701_650.JPG: Surrender of the German Fleet to the Allies
21 November 1918
NAMUOT_180701_661.JPG: Spanish Flu
NAMUOT_180701_662.JPG: Signing of the Armistice, French Newspaper
11 November 1918
NAMUOT_180701_665.JPG: "Souvenir de France" Postcard
1918
NAMUOT_180701_683.JPG: Postscript: Peace and Beyond
NAMUOT_180701_689.JPG: Where Do We Go From Here?"
Major William Brown Meloney, USA
1919
This small sixty-four page pamphlet was produced in 1918 as a handbook for former officers and enlisted men discharged from the Army and Navy following their service in the Great War. Topics addressed include jobs, back pay, conversion of insurance, financial compensation, the Victory medal, and travel allowance, among a host of other subjects of interest to men readjusting to civilian life.
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