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Montana WWI Army Nurse Receives (Posthumous) Silver Star Medal for Valor in Combat
At Bob Hope Veterans Chapel, Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA, September 24, 2025, Lieutenant (nurse) Elizabeth Dorothy Sandelius, US Army Nurse Corps, WWI, received, posthumously, the Silver Star Medal for heroism under [...]
Life Thrives on Maryland’s ‘Ghost Fleet’ of WWI-Era Shipwrecks
Nearly 100 years ago dozens of ships were abandoned in a shallow bay in the Potomac River. Today plants and animals are thriving on the skeletons of these vessels In 1929 the Western Marine [...]
Granddaughter of real life ‘Hello Girl’ helps Syracuse Stage bring WWI uniforms to life
Syracuse Stage Costume Shop Manager Gretchen Darrow-Crotty has a favorite line she likes to repeat while working on period pieces: “We aren’t doing the BBC production.” She’s not throwing shade at the British Broadcasting [...]
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 [...]
