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The WWI veteran who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol
“We’ll start the war from right here!” Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from its target destination on Utah Beach the morning of June 6, [...]
An American Urologist on the Western Front in World War I
Remembering Dr. GG Smith It began like any other clinical encounter between a urologist and their new patient: I asked Mr. Rush what prompted him to schedule the visit and what kind of work he [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Alaska History Day Project introduces us to The Hello Girls
“Hey, what rhymes with ‘experts’?” “Flirts - squirts - skirts?” “Yes, that’s it! Skirts!” “We have made history Helped the Allies secure victory We are experts; we’re wearing blue skirts And we did our bit [...]
Doughboy MIA For May 2024: Lieutenant Samuel Nord
Lieutenant Samuel Nord was born on January 21st, 1892, in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Wisconsin for one year and later attended Officer training at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. In July 1918, [...]
Homefront Heroines: New Kids’ Books Explore Hidden Wartime History
The horrors and heroes of World Wars I and II have long been commemorated on the page and screen, yet comparatively little is known of the individuals who did more than keep calm and carry [...]
