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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 [...]
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, [...]
The AEF ID Card of Capt. David R. Kerr, Personal Aide to 2nd “Indianhead” Division Commander General Omar Bundy
This is a small group of ephemera belonging to David Renwick Kerr, a Canadian-born American officer who served as Aide to 2nd Division Major General Omar Bundy from September 1917 to June 1918, and [...]
Less Than a Mile Apart: How Two WWI Foes Became Family in America
When I joined MyHeritage four months ago, I was looking for a platform that could help me break through the walls I kept hitting on other genealogy sites. I’m still in the learning phase [...]
