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WWI Symposium Unites Historians and Attendees for Day of Learning and Networking
The Inaugural World War I Symposium, presented by the Doughboy Foundation, hosted at the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, DC on September 12, 2025, was a resounding success, establishing itself as a premier [...]
“The young grow old quickly here”: Ruth Charlotte Bush, YMCA entertainer.
Ruth Charlotte Bush was born in February 1894 to Civil War veteran Theodore Bush and his wife, Charlotte Ann Arney Bush, in Kentland, IN. She had three sisters—Adah, Marie, and Alice—and writer George Ade was a [...]
The U.S. Army – Its History of Fighting On Foreign Soil
The “See the World” slogan has been a recurring theme in United States Navy recruitment efforts for decades, while the Marines’ Hymn highlights the United States Marine Corps’ foreign deployments in wartime. Yet, when [...]
Why Did America Enter World War I? Key Reasons & Timeline
Introduction Understanding why did America fight in World War 1 involves examining the historical backdrop and pivotal moments that shifted the U.S. from neutrality to active engagement. Initially, the United States maintained a stance of isolation, [...]
Doughboy MIA for October 2025: Second Lieutenant Eric Halbert Cummings
Our Doughboy Missing in Action (MIA) for October is Second Lieutenant Eric Halbert Cummings, Company C, 26th Infantry Regiment. Born the sixth child of nine children on 25 November 1890 in Dallas, Missouri to [...]
Montana WWI Army Nurse Receives (Posthumous) Silver Star Medal for Valor in Combat
At Bob Hope Veterans Chapel, Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA, September 24, 2025, Lieutenant (nurse) Elizabeth Dorothy Sandelius, US Army Nurse Corps, WWI, received, posthumously, the Silver Star Medal for heroism under [...]
The Hello Girls: From Telephone Switchboards to the Front Lines
With the invention of the telephone in the late 19th century a new profession was also invented: that of switchboard operator. This job was vital because, in the earliest days of the telephone, people [...]
After more than 100 years, World War I battlefields are poisoned and uninhabitable
Some scars never heal. No war in recent memory can compare to the meat grinder of World War I. Europe still bears the scars of the war, even more than a century after the war [...]
The US Army says it’s reviving a World War I practice — using soldiers as walking blood banks when helicopters can’t fly
A recent US Army exercise looked at life-saving medical care when wounded troops can't be flown out. In an intense conflict, getting troops off the field or bringing in supplies could prove extremely difficult. [...]
