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A Survivor of the Lost Battalion: One Swedish Brother’s Journey Home
The remarkable story of the Swedish emigrant Frank Gustaf Severin Erickson, the brother of Ernst Julius Erickson. You can find my earlier article about Frank’s brother, Ernst Julius Erickson, here on my webpage. I [...]
Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial
The Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial, featuring a large, evocative aluminum sculpture of a cresting wave and seagulls in flight, sits on Columbia Island on the Arlington side of the Potomac. The Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial honors [...]
The Trench Art Shell of Killed-in-Action Officer John Baldwin Gifted by Marine Corps General Smedley Butler’s Mother
"A Gift From a Friend to Another; John Stokes Baldwin, Whose Devotion to his Country Furnishes a Lesson by Which Every American Should Profit. Maud Darlington Butler" This is a magnificent large caliber artillery [...]
Symposium Remembers the Stories of America’s Unsung Heroes of World War I
The Doughboy Foundation's second World War I Symposium, hosted at the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, DC on September 18, 2026, offered a full day of immersive historical learning provided by experts on [...]
Captain Rudolph William Schroeder sets world record altitude, 18 September 1918
18 September 1918: Captain Rudolph William Schroeder, United States Army Air Service, the Chief Test Pilot of the Engineering Division at McCook Field, Fairfield, Ohio, flew a Bristol F.2B fighter to set two Fédération Aéronautique [...]
From Camp Sherman to Cleveland: How WWI Reshaped Ohio’s Military Geography
In June 1917, the fields north of Chillicothe held nothing but farmland and a handful of dirt roads. By December, more than 2,000 buildings stood on that same ground, and over 40,000 soldiers had [...]
A WWI Submarine Wreck Is Leaking Explosives Into The North Sea
A German WW1 submarine known as SM UC-30 was returning home in April 1917 when it hit a British mine and sank. Twenty-seven men were lost in the wreck, along with the 18 mines [...]
U.S. Naval Aviation vs. the U-boats in WWI
Introduction: The U.S. Navy aviation entered World War I as a tiny force of just 54 obsolete aircraft and 48 pilots, but expanded rapidly into a major anti-submarine patrol network operating 44 stations globally [...]
RE: L.A. Renames Pershing Square after Biddy Mason, founder of L.A.’s First AME Church
(Editor's Note: Courtland Jindra previously chronicled the effort to change the name of Pershing Park in Los Angeles, CA here. The letter below was sent to the Los Angeles Times newspaper September 8, 2026, but [...]
