The U.S. Virgin Islands are part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, an eastern island group of the Caribbean's Lesser Antilles region. The other part of the archipelago is the British Virgin Islands.

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On March 31, 1917, The United States took formal possession of part of the Virgin Island chain in the Caribbean. With World War I raging, America wanted the islands largely because of their ...