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Brighter Days Ahead: The Actions of Harry F. Kelly During the First World War
On April 29th, 1918, the Morris Herald News reported that Mary and Henry Kelly had officially been notified in a telegram that their eldest son, Harry F. Kelly, had been seriously wounded in France. [...]
Getting Those World War I Naval Mutinies Straight
(Note: I'm pretty sure that some of our readers share my difficulty in sorting out the causes of the Russian and two German Naval mutinies of the Great War. Through the miracle of the [...]
‘Not forgotten’: WWI soldier from Lilly posthumously awarded Purple Heart more than 100 years later
LILLY, Pa. – What started as a simple request for a photo of U.S. Army Pvt. John J. Andrews became an international effort to honor the World War I soldier's service with a Purple [...]
World War I Mystery: Private Sam Patti and Kathleen Houlihan found each other…somehow…
I started researching my genealogy in 2007 after reading Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. I became fascinated by one story in particular: the WWI love story of my maternal great-grandparents. My great-grandfather was born [...]
Why World War I History Is Hidden in Plain Sight Across Philadelphia
A trunk left behind in a rowhouse attic. A faded ribbon tucked into a family Bible. A bronze plaque half-covered by ivy near a corner store. These are the kinds of things that turn [...]
Remembering the Great War: “I see the scars all over Europe and America, elegantly dressed.”
All summer, I’d find myself faced with WWI memorials. I notice them everywhere & they mean so much to me since, blessedly, the Doughboy Foundation woke me up. It was Dan Dayton who saw me [...]
The Day a Rookie Shot Down an Ace
On 25 July 1918, 1st Lt. Walter Avery of the U.S. 95th Aero Squadron shot down veteran German ace Oberleutenant Carl Menckhoff (who had 39 victories) near Château-Thierry, France on his first combat mission. [...]
The Americans Who Flew for France
On a French airfield in 1916, you might have found two lion cubs named Whiskey and Soda padding between the tents, and a group of young Americans who had crossed an ocean to fight [...]
Putin Can Learn 3 Big Lessons From World War I
It has become commonplace to compare the war in Ukraine to World War I, with its desolate blasted landscapes and grinding trench warfare. Beyond the battlefields, there are political parallels as well. Last year, [...]
