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Doughboy MIA for May 2025: Lieutenant Harvey Lawrence Cory
Harvey Lawrence Cory was born on October 16, 1896, in Rochester, New York. During his youth, he attended preparatory school in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He later enrolled at Princeton University, where he was a [...]
Sgt. York’s 1941 Memorial Day Message Still Inspires
On Memorial Day, 1941, Sgt. Alvin York spoke at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This humble farmer from the backwoods of Tennessee began his military career as a pacifist. While he was serving with the [...]
American WWI troops honored on France’s former battlefields in Memorial Day tribute
BONY, France — The commander in charge of Army operations in Europe led Memorial Day tributes Sunday at the Somme American Cemetery, where some of the first American troops to die in combat on [...]
Expedition captures the first ever images of the wreck of a World War I submarine
The USS F-1 was lost in 1917 in a collision off of California, killing most of its crew. After more than 100 years, we have the first actual image of the wreck of a [...]
Relearning the Lessons We Never Learned from World War I
On August 10, 1915, British physicist Henry Mosely—who would’ve likely won the Nobel Prize that year—died in perhaps the most disastrous error mankind has thus far made, The First World War (1914-18). Bright and [...]
Veterans of Four Different Wars from the Same Town of Geary, Oklahoma, 1940s
We can only imagine the horrors seen and shared between the four of these men. They all have the stare and you can see it gradually getting worse in their eyes as they get [...]
Not Completely Unprepared—The U.S. Military before World War I
"America was completely unprepared for the war." You've probably seen some form of this statement in your readings. The statistics seem to fully support this. On 1 April 1917, the U.S. had 5,791 officers [...]
Western Front Association East Coast Branch to Host Spring Symposium on 7 June
The East Coast Branch of the Western Front Association will host its annual Spring Symposium on 7 June at the Maryland Veterans Museum, 11000 Crain Highway, Newburg, Maryland. The Western Front Association was formed [...]
The Long Way to Tipperary From Guanajuato
It was not unusual to hear my father singing or whistling while he worked in his garden at our home in South Central Los Angeles. It wasn’t until I started researching my father’s life [...]
