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When Grandma met Grandpa
My Grandmother, Elizabeth May Nelson, was born December 1899 into a solid middle class family. She was the oldest of three sisters. Their father worked as mid-level production management at several of the large [...]
WWI Pilot Took on Nine Germans to Save His Wingman. His Lost Medal of Honor Still Awaits Justice
Gregory Vail grew up listening to his father's war stories, watching him struggle with a prosthetic leg and agonizing phantom pain, hearing his anguished screams in the dark of sleepless nights. For 64 years [...]
Join us for “Over There: In the Footsteps of the Doughboys”
Have you ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of the Doughboys? To tread the earth where they gave their last full measure, or pay respects at their gravesites? To understand the pivotal moments [...]
How World War I Service Shaped Modern Military Civil Rights Laws
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, it did more than mobilize an army. It mobilized a nation’s legal system for a challenge it had never faced before. Millions of Americans [...]
“On the Front, Somewhere in France, October 6, 1918.”
This postcard came to us from an unknown sender, one of two, with no note about who the person in both postcards could have been. The envelope had "Unknown Soldier" written across it. The [...]
The 101st Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop of the 26th Yankee Division
The Remarkable Service of Captain Paul Huse Taylor This is a lovely portrait taken around 1921 of Captain Paul Huse Taylor, the commanding officer of the 101st Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop, or MORS, 26th [...]
“Oh, so you’re the Marine.”
Eugene “Reynold” Thomas was born in 1898, in Pennsylvania, to George and Evelyn Thomas. In 1917, he would enlist in the war as a marine, and see action. After the armistice was signed, he [...]
Jim McConnell – Ambulance Driver and Pioneer Fighter Pilot
Franklin “Doc” Treece was a kindly old man who raised geraniums and petunias for a living. He was also a machine gunner who had been gassed while fighting his way through the shattered forests [...]
French hospital evacuated after 8-inch WWI artillery shell discovered in patient’s butt
He had some explosive indigestion. A hospital in France was evacuated after a male patient arrived with a WWI artillery shell lodged in his backside. According to the bum-shell report, the unnamed 24-year-old had [...]
