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A German Pigeon Began Life as a WWI Messenger, was Captured in France, crossed the Atlantic, and became a US Military Hero
In a museum collection in Washington, D.C., sits an unusual veteran of the First and Second World Wars. Kaiser was a German homing pigeon, hatched in Koblenz in 1917 and captured by American soldiers [...]
Upcoming Cycling Trip Along the Western Front Way UPDATE
Update: Follow the group's bicycle journey Along the Western Way on their CycleBlaze Journal here starting August 28. Originally published: June 24, 2026 In the Somme River region in France and in the Flanders region in [...]
Preventing Industrialized Atrocity: From World War to the Age of Automation
Mutual dependence often defines the relationship between industry and warfare. Wartime technological demand places pressure on civilian industries to support state defense-building while providing powerful financial incentives to do so — and most technologies [...]
America’s Summertime World War One Commemorations – 2026
A major Remembrance address was made on 25 July 2026 at Croix Rouge Farm, France, former battlefield of the 42nd Rainbow Division, by Monique Brouillet Seefried, Ph.D. Monique served for 10 years as WWI Centennial Commissioner, [...]
Carey’s Force in the Somme: The Shrapnel-Dented Helmet of Fred Bachle, 6th Engineer Regiment, 3rd Division
This is the moderately-dented British Mark I helmet worn by Sergeant (Acting Sergeant 1st Class) Fred Bachle of Company B, 6th Engineer Regiment, 3rd Division, American Expeditionary Forces. Bachle was part of "Carey's Force", [...]
Wildfires expose — and detonate — buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII
The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II ELSENBORN, Belgium -- The wildfires burning across Europe [...]
Home Again in Uniform: A French Immigrant’s Return to Liberate His Homeland
When Private Marcel Albert Rogissart stepped ashore in France with the American Expeditionary Forces in the spring of 1918, he was returning to a country he knew well. Unlike most of the young Americans [...]
East Side Bridgeport – A Cityscape Made by the Great War
The building was the tallest building in the area and from any window of the top floor you could look over almost the entire East Side. Skydel’s Department Store, where every Easter my mother purchased [...]
The Only Vermont Hello Girl: Sarah Adeline Fecteau Reiber, 1895-1922
Hello Girl of the Month for August, 2026 The only Hello Girl to hail from Vermont, Sarah Adeline Fecteau was born in the Village of White River Junction, Town of Hartford, on 23 August [...]
