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WWI Trench Guns: Shotguns for Ferocious Fighting
The warfighters of World War 1 had one foot in the past and one in the future. Swords and horses were still being used but automatic weapons, airplanes and tanks were newfangled weapons. When [...]
Bennie Owens, QMC
During World War I, African Americans volunteered and participated in droves to fight for their country, just as they have done in every military conflict in the history of the United States. One such [...]
Meet ‘Sergeant Stubby’—A WWI Dog Who Wandered Onto A U.S. Army Training Ground In 1917
As history has shown, animals have never been spared from the horrors of war. Horses carried cavalry through blood-soaked battlefields, pigeons risked the skies as couriers and dogs patrolled the trenches, sniffing out dangers before human senses could [...]
The hidden stories of the First World War
A message, written on somebody’s skin: “lesion to upper thigh, wound infected”. The message would have been read by a volunteer nurse who stood in the vaulted room of what had once been a hotel, [...]
Unearthed World War I discovery during school lesson tears two families’ lives apart
A history teacher accidentally uncovered a secret about two of her students when setting them a homework task to bring in a photo of a member of their family.A teacher turned two of her students' [...]
Remembering a Veteran: Driver Walter Elias Disney, American Red Cross Ambulance Service
Walt Disney was born on 5 December 1901, at 1249 Tripp Avenue, in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood. He was the fourth son of Elias Disney—born in the Province of Canada, to Irish parents—and Flora (née Call), [...]
Swedes in 54th Pioneer Infantry Regiment – Military Engineers in the Argonne Area
My talks about my research around different places in Sweden led me into my specific interest in the 54th Pioneer Infantry Regiment, which belonged to the American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War. One [...]
The Son of an American Legion Founder Led a Guerrilla Campaign of Terror Against the Nazis
In WWI, Wood Sr. received the Legion of Merit and a Purple Heart as well as the French Croix de Guerre and Legion of Honor. By today's standards, Eric Fisher Wood Sr. would probably not [...]
5 Writing Tips for the Ultimate Valentine from WWI Love Letters
These tips gleaned from the real-life letters of WWI soldiers and their loved ones will help you write one for the ages.As we head into Valentine’s Day weekend, what to write in a card to your [...]
