On March 4, 1918, the first influenza cases were identified at Camp Funston, Kansas. The subsequent flu killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, including 43,000 U.S. service members. (Army) ...

Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas. Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic (NCP 1603), National Museum of Health and Medicine. In the winter of 1918, an illness ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - As World War I raged on, the City of Charleston was battling a fast increase in Spanish Flu cases on Oct. 6, 1918. The first case of the infection was discovered at an Army ...

In the spring of 1918, as American soldiers prepared to go "over the top" for the first time during World War I, a handful of army physicians began noticing a strange sickness that began to grip ...