Tomorrow marks the ceremonial groundbreaking for the national World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C. To coincide with this event in Pershing Park, a joint American Battle Monuments Commission/World War I Centennial Commission photo exhibit is also available to view through December 8, 2017.

Only a few nations fought World War I singly, outside of formal alliances. Mostly, empires and coalitions of countries fought on behalf of their partners against members of rival alliances.

On the night of November 3, 1917 at 2:30 a.m. German artillery began a harassing barrage of Allied forces about a mile southeast of Arracourt, France.

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The United States had a small standing Army in April 1917 when the country officially joined the Great War. Most of the men in the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were new soldiers in need of training.

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Allied forces gained a critical foothold in the Solomon Islands in August 1942 after the successful invasion of Guadalcanal. While this gave the Allies a base of operations, including an airfield, the Japanese still had a presence on Guadalcanal.

In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, millions of Americans served far from home. In the various conflicts, service members fought in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. They traversed mountains in Italy, France, Korea and Vietnam.

Even before the United States joined World War I, transformations to the American military had begun in earnest. The National Defense Act of 1916 authorized growth of the army to include 21 field artillery regiments.