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Wreaths Across America gives Pennsylvania Legion post a chance to remember, honor & teach
National Wreaths Across America Day 2023 saw wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as over 4,000+ additional locations in all 50 U.S. states, at sea, and abroad. Twenty-year-old Max Cavada, a Penn State [...]
Corporal Elmer Bowman & The First Gas Regiment
Thank you to the Doughboy Foundation for the opportunity to share the stories of men and women whose stories have otherwise become lost to time & obscurity. My name is Michael R. Santoro, I’m a [...]
Father Duffy on the Wait Before the Big Fight
It's the middle of July, 1915. The 165th Infantry (AKA the "Fighting Sixty-Ninth") is in the line east of Reims. The Germans are expected to launch their fifth major offensive of the year shortly. The [...]
Sabaton’s “History Rocks” WWI Project Deemed Tremendous Success By Museums Around The World
Sabaton’s recently concluded “History Rocks” museum charity project, which revolved around the global premiere of the heavy metal band’s animated film, "The War To End All Wars - The Movie", was a resounding success [...]
World War I Enemies Played Football During A Christmas Truce – Except Maybe They Didn’t
Evidence casts suspicion on a famous Christmas Truce story and several monuments. Over the Christmas period in 1914, fraternization took place in No Man’s Land between British and German soldiers at St. Yvon in Belgium. [...]
In World War I, France started to build a fake Paris to confuse German bombers
Just after noon on August 30, 1914, about a month into World War I, a biplane marked with the German iron cross under its wings flew 6,000 feet above France’s capital city. Soon, to the [...]
The Great War Atrocity That Changed War Crimes Prosecutions Forever
I first encountered the story of His Majesty’s Hospital Ship (HMHS) Llandovery Castle while doing online research about the First World War. I came across a reference to the Leipzig War Crimes Trials—the forgotten attempt [...]
“Trench Talk, Trench Life”: The Origins of a Book
I’m thinking of my hometown of Cohoes, in up-state New York. I was in third-grade, on November 11, on the day then called Armistice Day, when my teacher Miss Golden made a statement that was [...]
Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials Now Out in Paperback
Friend of the Doughboy Foundation, historian Allison S. Finkelstein, is excited to share with our readers that her book is now available in paperback. Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945 investigates [...]
