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Doughboy MIA for April 2025: Lieutenant Walter Craig
Walter Craig was born on January 5, 1892, in Climax, Pennsylvania. He graduated from New Bethlehem High School in 1913, where he was an active member of the school basketball team. Walter came from [...]
This Day in Aviation History: 23 April 2019, First U.S. “Ace” in World War I
23 April 1918: at 09:55 a.m., near Saint-Gobain, France, 1st Lieutenant Paul Frank Baer, 103rd Aero Squadron (Pursuit), shot down an enemy Albatross C two-place biplane. This was Baer’s fifth victory in aerial combat, [...]
Heroic Facts About Alvin York, America’s WWI Hero
The Man Who Fought For Freedom Most accounts of Alvin York present a man who embodies his humble beginnings. The stories show him to be a simple mountain man who believed in faith, justice, [...]
These Forgotten American “Doughboys” Fought for the British in WWI
In a surprise attack on the Germans during the Battle of Hamel, the Doughboys performed fairly well. Prior to the United States of America’s official entry into World War I, a considerable number of Americans volunteered [...]
April 8, 1918: The Harlem Hellfighters joined the French Army in battling German forces
The 369th Infantry Regiment, which the Germans called the “Harlem Hellfighters,” joined the French Army in battling German forces. “The Hellfighters, the most celebrated African-American regiment in World War I, confronted racism, even as they [...]
‘A Love Letter to Chaplains’: Exhibit honors contributions of military chaplains in World War I
(OSV News) -- Bombs, death, trench warfare -- all of the experiences as an Italian military chaplain would forever shape Father Angelo Roncalli's future life and ministry as a priest, bishop and eventually as Pope John [...]
Reports from the WWI battlefields – A Swedish journalist met the Swedish soldiers
Gunnar met the Swedes in the American Army, when he wrote about his dialogues between him and the soldiers. I have been writing about it before, how digitized newspapers from the Great War era [...]
Hello From a French Village That Recalls the U.S. as a Staunch Ally
French visitors are coming to Washington with an old U.S. battle flag and a plan to rekindle memories of the American soldiers who rescued their region during World War I. More than a century [...]
The Black WWI war hero who fought off over 20 German soldiers at once by himself
Henry Johnson received praise from Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Barack Obama.May 15, 1918 was the most painful day of Henry Johnson’s life. It’s also the day he became a war hero applauded by his fellow soldiers, his community, [...]
