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Carey’s Force in the Somme: The Shrapnel-Dented Helmet of Fred Bachle, 6th Engineer Regiment, 3rd Division
This is the moderately-dented British Mark I helmet worn by Sergeant (Acting Sergeant 1st Class) Fred Bachle of Company B, 6th Engineer Regiment, 3rd Division, American Expeditionary Forces. Bachle was part of "Carey's Force", [...]
Wildfires expose — and detonate — buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII
The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II ELSENBORN, Belgium -- The wildfires burning across Europe [...]
Home Again in Uniform: A French Immigrant’s Return to Liberate His Homeland
When Private Marcel Albert Rogissart stepped ashore in France with the American Expeditionary Forces in the spring of 1918, he was returning to a country he knew well. Unlike most of the young Americans [...]
Americans in the Canadian Army?
How about an entire brigade? When you write historical fiction, sometimes you paint yourself into a corner, and while resolving a plot issue, you discover a bit of hidden history. In my novel, The [...]
Brighter Days Ahead: The Actions of Harry F. Kelly During the First World War
On April 29th, 1918, the Morris Herald News reported that Mary and Henry Kelly had officially been notified in a telegram that their eldest son, Harry F. Kelly, had been seriously wounded in France. [...]
World War I Mystery: Private Sam Patti and Kathleen Houlihan found each other…somehow…
I started researching my genealogy in 2007 after reading Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. I became fascinated by one story in particular: the WWI love story of my maternal great-grandparents. My great-grandfather was born [...]
Remembering the Great War: “I see the scars all over Europe and America, elegantly dressed.”
All summer, I’d find myself faced with WWI memorials. I notice them everywhere & they mean so much to me since, blessedly, the Doughboy Foundation woke me up. It was Dan Dayton who saw me [...]
The Day a Rookie Shot Down an Ace
On 25 July 1918, 1st Lt. Walter Avery of the U.S. 95th Aero Squadron shot down veteran German ace Oberleutenant Carl Menckhoff (who had 39 victories) near Château-Thierry, France on his first combat mission. [...]
The Americans Who Flew for France
On a French airfield in 1916, you might have found two lion cubs named Whiskey and Soda padding between the tents, and a group of young Americans who had crossed an ocean to fight [...]
