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This WWI ‘Hello Girl’ has been denied a proper goodbye for decades
Marie Edmee LeRoux, buried in an unmarked grave in Prince George’s County, will finally get a headstone. Now Congress needs to give her a medal. An unmarked patch of dirt and grass in a Maryland [...]
David Ingalls, US Navy Ace in WWI
Lt. David S. Ingalls was the US Navy's first ace and its first Top Gun. Ingalls was a Sopwith Camel pilot and the grand nephew of former President William Howard Taft. He enlisted in naval [...]
Stabilizing Democracy: The World Wars and Women’s Suffrage
Wars unleash forces that are difficult to predict or control. World War I and World War II were both periods of crisis and change, and in the case of the United States and Japan, this [...]
And You Have My Axe: The American Lumberjacks Of World War I
Tactics win battles, but logistics win wars. It’s tough to argue that the United States military doesn’t have the best logistics in the world – two world wars proved that Americans can get you what [...]
Senate Speech Proposing First Presumptive Conditions for Great War Veterans
Act establishing the Veterans Bureau to oversee all benefits for WWI Veterans became law on August 9, 1921 Page from 1921 Congressional Record with Senator David Walsh’s speech proposing to treat tuberculosis and neuropsychiatric [...]
French Cross at Brooklyn National Cemetery
After World War I, regulations were updated to formalize burials of allied foreign nationals in U.S. national cemeteries French Cross at Brooklyn National Cemetery in New York. The granite monument was installed at the [...]
‘Hello Girls’ of World War I Quest for Veteran Recognition
Telephone operators 60-year struggle for benefits after the Great War Bells rang throughout France on the morning of Nov. 11, 1918, signifying the end of World War I. In Paris, people filled the streets in [...]
Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon: The Machine Gun Approaches
Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss was born in 1826 to a family of inventors in Connecticut, the hotbed of gun creation in the 19th century. The family had a business that manufactured many of their inventions, including [...]
‘It bucked our lads up wonderfully’: the lightning-quick battle that marked the birth of the US-Australia military alliance
While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership is not. As Australians reflect on the sacrifices of their soldiers on ANZAC Day, it’s worth remembering the first time Australian and American troops joined forces [...]
