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Meet the ‘Arizona Balloon Buster,’ the ace WWI pilot famous for shooting down enemy balloons on ‘suicide’ missions
A US Air Force F-22 fighter jet using the callsign "FRANK" fired a single air-to-air missile at a high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon on Saturday, sending debris plummeting off the coast of South Carolina and calling attention [...]
AFS and American Volunteerism in World War I
Shortly after the outbreak of World War I in 1914, staff at the American Hospital of Paris opened a military hospital (also referred to as an “ambulance”) to accommodate a growing number of patients coming [...]
YWCA Dances Relieve Stress For Signal Corps Girls – 1918
Touch of Gayety At Roanne Takes Thoughts From War’s Horrors. When the great army of Signal Corps girls was bring recruited In New York and throughout the country, one of the warnings given to applicants [...]
Cultural Fusions Behind Europe’s Most Iconic Battles in World War I
The First World War massively changed the way we approach and manage conflicts, particularly from one tribe securing and expanding their own territories to forming alliances with other like-minded civilizations to protect and maintain the ideologies and [...]
Florence Standish – Early 20th Century Asheville, VA nurse
The History of the Asheville Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) is a complex and fascinating one spanning over a century of care. Research continues to uncover connections, placing the people of this historic hospital site [...]
Why Were These WWI Soldiers Executed By Their Own Country?
All soldiers in World War I had one thing in common: possible execution by their own country for alleged cowardice. How did this actually affect armies? In his First World War memoir Good-Bye to All That, the [...]
Sgt. Alvin York: From Blacksmith to Legendary WWI Marksman
Sgt. Alvin York was a United States Army soldier and one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War I. Born in rural Tennessee, Sgt. York had little formal education but was an excellent [...]
The Battle Of Argonne Forest: The Deadliest American Battle In WWI
Masses of inexperienced soldiers — most of whom had barely tasted adulthood (per The Washington Post) — were sent to the Western Front during World War I (via International Encyclopedia of the First World War). Known [...]
“A journey of research & learning that continues to this day”
Like many students of World War I, I took an interest upon learning that a family descendant fought in the Great War. It all began some 50 years ago when as a 12 year old, [...]
