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P520 Crash Boat planning Honor Cruise for WWII/Korea vets to DC on July 4th; support sought
Unique watercraft has deep WWI connections When fundraising is successful, the P-520, the last complete 85' WWII & Korean War US Army/Air Force Patrol Boat (Crash Boat) remaining afloat, will visit Washington, DC this July [...]
Upcoming Events at the National WWI Memorial: Flanders Day, Memorial Day, and Doughboy Foundation’s Summer Concert Series
Join the Doughboy Foundation this May and June for a series of patriotic events at the National WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C., as we honor those who served and kick off a summer of [...]
“No Stone Was Left Unturned”: A Tomb in the Heart of the Nation: The Origins and Creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
US Army book cover graphic by Johnny Chang (contractor), Army National Military Cemeteries. Army National Military Cemeteries (ANMC) is proud to share that its new digital open-access publication, A Tomb in the [...]
A century of the ‘Ma Deuce’: How the M2 Browning became America’s workhorse machine gun
Gen. John J. Pershing requested development of a multipurpose heavy machine gun the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI. We're still using the result today. For over a century the M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun, [...]
Finding the Hello Girls: A Journey of Discovery and Connections
Finding (Auntie) Nemo The seeds that led to my Hello Girls journey were first planted in the fall of 2011. As my son was leaving for college, he suggested in a humorous manner that [...]
Not a Museum, but a Mirror: How one book, one library event and one basketball game revealed the Hello Girls’ living legacy
Like many of you, I grew up with family stories about my grandmother, Marie Edmée LeRoux, who served in World War I. I knew she had gone to France. I knew she had done something [...]
A Primer on Iran’s (Persia’s) Rather Unpleasant World War I Experience
Persia (now Iran) is little known as a theatre of the First World War, but events there influenced global politics in the years following the war. Although Persia declared its neutrality in 1914, it [...]
This WWI soldier saved two men from a burning tank with his bare hands
When the American Expeditionary Forces joined the Allied armies on the Western Front in World War I, there was one condition upon which their commander, Gen. John Pershing, insisted. He wanted the AEF to [...]
World War I showed hemispheric insecurity could constrain American global power
Mind the GAPP: Strategic History and the Case for US Army Western Hemisphere Command In May 2025 I was assigned to the core team that planned the consolidation of three Army commands—Army North, Army [...]
