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The Biggest Battle America Forgot
1.2 million Americans. Forty-seven days. The end of the First World War — and a commander carrying a private grief almost no one knows about. Our conversation with Dr. Mitch Yockelson. One afternoon in [...]
World War I troops said ‘f*ck’ so much, it was scarier when they didn’t
Sometimes, it's what you don't say that means everything. Sometimes it’s not what you say that means the most, it’s what you don’t say. Certain words carry a heavy weight when said by the [...]
Along the Western Front: Cycling, History, and the Hello Girls
In November 2025, I was approached by Linda Jantzen about joining her for an e-bike tour along the Western Front Way through France and Belgium. It would be a supported tour; our bags would [...]
District of Columbia World War I Memorial
The World War I Memorial near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool isn’t well known or much visited. It has been neglected and forgotten for decades but in the past few years has gotten some [...]
Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial
The Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial, featuring a large, evocative aluminum sculpture of a cresting wave and seagulls in flight, sits on Columbia Island on the Arlington side of the Potomac. The Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial honors [...]
The Trench Art Shell of Killed-in-Action Officer John Baldwin Gifted by Marine Corps General Smedley Butler’s Mother
"A Gift From a Friend to Another; John Stokes Baldwin, Whose Devotion to his Country Furnishes a Lesson by Which Every American Should Profit. Maud Darlington Butler" This is a magnificent large caliber artillery [...]
Captain Rudolph William Schroeder sets world record altitude, 18 September 1918
18 September 1918: Captain Rudolph William Schroeder, United States Army Air Service, the Chief Test Pilot of the Engineering Division at McCook Field, Fairfield, Ohio, flew a Bristol F.2B fighter to set two Fédération Aéronautique [...]
U.S. Naval Aviation vs. the U-boats in WWI
Introduction: The U.S. Navy aviation entered World War I as a tiny force of just 54 obsolete aircraft and 48 pilots, but expanded rapidly into a major anti-submarine patrol network operating 44 stations globally [...]
What Vehicles Did The Army Use Before The Jeep?
Think of the U.S. Army, and you think of Jeep. While the small 4x4 might be seen as the archetype when it comes to military transport, the U.S. Army had been experimenting with various [...]
