Visitors then get to see the trenches to which the soldiers fought on the fronts. The war started as wars in the past with grand movements of troops, but soon bogged down into those trenches because of modern technology's new instruments of death such as mechanized tanks, airplanes with machine guns, chemical agents such as mustard gas and advancement and refinement of machine guns.
American neutrality in the first three years is explored.
"Millions of young Yanks ended up on the battlefields of Europe. Their stories are remembered through personal items such as diaries, photographs of loved ones and shaving kits."
A variety of authentic vehicles like a 1917 Harley-Davidson motorcycle and a Ford Model T ambulance with a dark green paint job. A sign on it says that author Ernest Hemingway and McDonald's founder Ray Kroc were young ambulance drivers.
--Cooter
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