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The 332nd U.S. Infantry’s Military and Political Role in Italy
Though American money had been flowing into Italy’s war campaign for some time, since the Italian military’s disastrous defeat at the Battle of Caporetto, Rome had requested more than just U.S. dollars. Fresh troops [...]
U.S. Army’s ‘Hello Girls’ honored at Holy Cross
More than 50 years after she died and was buried in an unmarked grave at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, Irma Rameline Armanet received a military headstone in a ceremony earlier this year. The event honored her service [...]
Million Dollar Barrage: American Field Artillery in the Great War
Million Dollar Barrage: American Field Artillery in the Great War, By Justin G. Prince The numerous innovations in the conduct of war at the start of the 20th century are well known to most [...]
ABMC Sacred Soil Returns to Arlington Through Gold Star Mothers’ Tribute
Restored marker honors Americans who fell on the battlefields of World War I Today, a historic Sacred Soil Marker at Arlington National Cemetery has been restored, renewing a nearly century-old symbol of remembrance that [...]
The 4th of July 1918 for the AEF
The Fourth of July holiday is an occasion for the United States of America to celebrate and commemorate the birth of the nation. It is interesting to recall how this holiday was celebrated during [...]
The Chemistry of World War I Gas
An enduring hallmark of WWI, along with the trenches and the mud, is the large-scale use of chemical weapons, commonly called simply "gas." Although chemical warfare caused less than one percent of the total [...]
Sentinels of Memory: How Personal Keepsakes Preserve World War I Service Stories
More than a century after the guns fell silent along the Western Front on November 11, 1918, the First World War has slipped entirely out of living memory. Every one of the 4.7 million [...]
Upcoming Cycling Trip Along the Western Front Way
In the Somme River region in France and in the Flanders region in Belgium are among the most famous and bloodiest battlefields of the First World War. Names such as Péronne, Thiepval, and Beaumont-Hamel [...]
Doughboy MIA For June 2026: First Lieutenant Ernest Armond Giroux of the 103rd Aero Squadron.
First Lieutenant Ernest Armond Giroux was the only American aviator of World War I listed as Missing in Action to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Born on December 4, 1895, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, [...]
