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The Pedersen Device: WWI Doughboy’s Secret Weapon
The Pedersen Device replaced the bolt of the M1903 rifle, turning it into a semiauto rifle with a 40-round magazine. Marching fire, also known as walking fire, is a military tactic—a form of suppressive fire [...]
Reflections on a Ceremony for a WWI Hello Girl, 79 years in the making
Now that the long-anticipated ceremony for Marie Edmee LeRoux is over, and I have had time to draw a breath, I wanted to thank everyone concerned with the event, and share some thoughts I had [...]
Albert Grass: WWI Lakota Code Talker gets bridge named in his Honor
My name is Timothy Hunts-in-Winter, an enrolled citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who resides in Arizona. I’m just a guy who began researching my family's WWI soldiers and my tribemates’ soldiers almost 3 [...]
The Boys of Yarmouth In World War I
In June, 1917, Albert Chase of West Yarmouth left home for the bloody battlefields of France. Chase was one of 35 young men from Old Mattacheese who volunteered in World War One, and miraculously, all [...]
WWI Teaching Resources from The Doughboy Foundation
During the centennial of World War I, The Doughboy Foundation embarked on an ambitious project to contemporize the way American History of WWI is taught, zeroing in on the transformative era marked by WWI under the [...]
Lyle W. Barnes and Quimby American Legion post honored at D.C. WWI memorial
At 5 pm Eastern Time (4 pm Central Time) every day, “Taps” is played at the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C., as a tribute to all who have served in the armed [...]
11 Objects Carried by World War I Infantrymen
Here are some of the essential items that typical Doughboys carried with them on the battlefields of World War I. Although the world's major countries possessed highly developed armies to defend their interests in the [...]
USS Jacob Jones Bell Conservation Efforts Begin Following London Turnover Ceremony
Naval History and Heritage Command archaeological conservators have begun treatment assessments on the ship’s bell of USS Jacob Jones (DD 61) in the Conservation, Research, and Archaeology Laboratory on the Washington Navy Yard. Vice Chief [...]
97-year-old Marine shares memories of his famed father Lt. Gen. Keller Rockey with author
Reporter's Notebook: A local author's book project about a famous Marine led him to a remarkable discovery of memories --- memories that changed the course of American military history. Those recollections come from Retired Marine [...]
