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WWI American Uniform: A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Gear, History & Collecting
Introduction: Did You Know This Surprising Fact About WWI Uniforms? Did you know that over 4.7 million American soldiers were mobilized in World War I, each wearing variations of the now-iconic WWI American uniform? Whether you’re a [...]
The Hello Girls: From Telephone Switchboards to the Front Lines
With the invention of the telephone in the late 19th century a new profession was also invented: that of switchboard operator. This job was vital because, in the earliest days of the telephone, people [...]
How WWI got Nat Geo into the map business
Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name. Poland. Denmark. Norway. Belgium. As Hitler’s troops marched across Europe [...]
The Doughboy Foundation supports dedication ceremony for Pershing-Foch Sculpture at Pentagon
Doughboy Foundation Bugler Michael Delaune and Doughboy Foundation Executive Director Jari Villanueva are pictured with the Pentagon display case holding the Pershing-Foch sculpture. The Doughboy Foundation was honored to attend a dedication [...]
‘The Hello Girls’ celebrates pioneering WWI female telephone operators
Review: The Syracuse Stage show tells the story of how five determined women answered the call during war. “With the battle lines drawn, do you know what side you’re on?” The theater listens in [...]
Photographs Of The Only American Battleship To Survive Pearl Harbor: The WWI-era USS Nevada
The Survivor Of Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. Explosions tore through Pearl Harbor and had battleships burning and sailors scrambling. Yet one ship, the USS Nevada, did the unthinkable. She became the only battleship [...]
Royal welcome for Trump in UK
41-gun salute was fired simultaneously from six WWI-era guns on the castle's east lawn WINDSOR: Donald Trump was treated to a royal reception featuring gun salutes, soldiers on horseback and bagpipes as he met Wednesday [...]
After more than 100 years, World War I battlefields are poisoned and uninhabitable
Some scars never heal. 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 after the war [...]
7 Everyday Products That Came Out of WWI
World War I lasted four long years, and the unprecedented scale of the conflict demanded rapid innovation and resourcefulness. The brutal war of attrition, characterized by trench warfare, created many problems to be solved, [...]
