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“Oh, so you’re the Marine.”
Eugene “Reynold” Thomas was born in 1898, in Pennsylvania, to George and Evelyn Thomas. In 1917, he would enlist in the war as a marine, and see action. After the armistice was signed, he [...]
Jim McConnell – Ambulance Driver and Pioneer Fighter Pilot
Franklin “Doc” Treece was a kindly old man who raised geraniums and petunias for a living. He was also a machine gunner who had been gassed while fighting his way through the shattered forests [...]
French hospital evacuated after 8-inch WWI artillery shell discovered in patient’s butt
He had some explosive indigestion. A hospital in France was evacuated after a male patient arrived with a WWI artillery shell lodged in his backside. According to the bum-shell report, the unnamed 24-year-old had [...]
These crusader knights answered the call to fight World War I
The country known as Georgia derives its name from the Persian word “Gurgan,” meaning the land of the wolves. To the Persians, it refers to the “frightening and heroic people of that territory.” That’s [...]
Invisible Sacrifice: Commemorating Those Who Served Without Reaching the Frontline
I will change my narrative. I will develop my research to not only include the Swedish born soldiers, who fought and fell in the Great War, and are buried along the western front, In [...]
“Devotion to Duty: Memorializing Jane Delano” Saturday, Jan. 31, 4 p.m. (via Zoom)
Dr. Allison S. Finkelstein ANC Senior Historian Dr. Allison S. Finkelstein will be leading a public webinar for the Army Nurse Corps Association (ANCA). This free webinar is being hosted by the [...]
The Forgotten Army Soldiers That Fought Alongside the Marines at Belleau Wood
Belleau Wood is where the Marine Corps became the legend we know of today. It's the battle that gave birth to the term "Devil Dogs," the fight that turned a small naval infantry branch [...]
North Ferrisburgh, VT’s Laurance Newton Wilson’s WWI Service
The following article was graciously submitted by Sam Pestle. To see more stories of WWI soldiers with accompanying portrait photography, please check out Sam’s page – The United States in WW1 on Facebook. The son of a [...]
After more than 100 years, World War I battlefields are uninhabitable
No war in recent memory can compare to the meat grinder of World War I.Europe still bears the scars of the war, even more than a century since the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. [...]
