![My great-grandfather's letters from Camp Funston show the origins of the 1918 flu pandemic in real time. My great-grandfather's letters from Camp Funston show the origins of the 1918 flu pandemic in real time.](https://compote.slate.com/images/06d0ed71-d1c0-41d8-8a75-3da9c71e8c61.jpeg?width=780&height=520&rect=800x533&offset=1x0)
My great-grandfather's letters from Camp Funston show the origins of the 1918 flu pandemic in real time.
![June 1940, the railcar where the German WW1 surrender was signed at Compiegne (Paris) arrives in Berlin after being seized by the German armies entering Paris in 1940. : r/wwiipics June 1940, the railcar where the German WW1 surrender was signed at Compiegne (Paris) arrives in Berlin after being seized by the German armies entering Paris in 1940. : r/wwiipics](https://i.redd.it/ukmrmtqcei281.png)
June 1940, the railcar where the German WW1 surrender was signed at Compiegne (Paris) arrives in Berlin after being seized by the German armies entering Paris in 1940. : r/wwiipics
![The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, October 16, 1918, Image 1 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, October 16, 1918, Image 1 « Chronicling America « Library of Congress](https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89055128/1918-10-16/ed-1/seq-1/thumbnail.jpg)