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In Their Own Words – Arthur Niedermiller: One Sailor in WWI
Learn about Arthur Christian Niedermiller of Detroit, Michigan. Born in 1889 of German-American descent, learn how he overcame obstacles as the United States entered #TheGreatWar in April 1917. Looking up Woodward Avenue in downtown [...]
Borrowed Soldiers: Americans Under British Command in 1918 (Video)
In this highly informative 48-minute documentary from the Western Front Association, Mitchell Yockelson, senior archivist at the U.S. National Archives and an instructor at the Naval Academy, presents the story of the AEF's II Corps, [...]
Doughboy MIA For November 2023: Second Lieutenant Chester Hinkley Kennedy
A man is only missing if he is forgotten… Our Doughboy MIA of the month is Second Lieutenant Chester Hinkley Kennedy, of the 1st Aero Squadron. Chester Kennedy was born November 25, 1895 in McMinnville, [...]
Serpents of War: An American Officer’s Story of World War I Combat and Captivity
Harry Parkin (1880–1946) was born into a well-to-do Pittsburgh family. He was a product of the prewar Plattsburgh training camp as well as the April 1917 Fort Niagara Officers Training Camp. Commissioned a captain, Parkin [...]
Eyewitness: Capt. George W. Hamilton, USMC, on the Capture of Hill 142 During the Battle of Belleau Wood
Editor's Note: Capt. Hamilton was the on-the-scene commander of the Marine companies of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, charged on 6 June 1918 with the capture of Hill 142 overlooking right flank of the attacking French [...]
Thomas Neibaur’s bravery in World War I
On this day in 1918, a hero engages in an action that would earn him the Medal of Honor. Thomas Neibaur was the first Latter Day Saint to receive the honor. “Private Thomas Neibaur is [...]
Throwback Thursday: Meet John Henry Pruitt & the Trench Heroes of World War I
American bravery in the first World War was writ large and small, and punctuated with buckshot and bullets. World War I changed everything about the way wars would be fought from then on, [...]
US Navy and Marine Corps aviation in World War One
A chapter from Key Publishing’s new book “Contact! Early US Naval and Marine Corps Aviation, 1911-1918” by Alan C Carey At the outbreak of war, the Army and Navy had little idea of how to [...]
Doughboy MIA For October 2023: First Lieutenant Manderson Lehr
A man is only missing if he is forgotten… Three French Breguet 14b2 bombers, flying in a driving rainstorm on 15 July 1918, attacked a bridge filled with retreating German Soldiers crossing the Marne River. [...]
