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A Meaningful Handshake: Commemorating 250 Years Of French-American Military Friendship And Alliance
On February 3rd, 2025, His Excellency Laurent Bili, Ambassador of France to the United States, hosted a reception at his residence to celebrate a gift from the French Armed Forces to their US counterpart: [...]
Dr. Philip Matz: A Pioneer in VA Medical Research
Dr. Philip Matz served as the first director of research at VA from 1925-1938. His leadership kickstarted Veteran specific studies on a wide range of issues. (VA) World War I brought about [...]
How the Hundred Days Offensive Ended World War I
For many people, the enduring image of World War I is that of infantry troops bunkered down in a trench somewhere along the hazy battlefield of the war’s Western Front. Indeed, while stagnant trench [...]
An inside look at the historian’s craft and American women’s roles in World War I
Have you ever wondered how historians transform the primary source materials they find in archives into a book? If so, check out the recording of historian (and friend of the Doughboy Foundation) Allison S. Finkelstein's November "Made at [...]
The 18-year-old World War I corporal behind Fort Benning’s renaming
For more than a century, Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the name of the Army base in Georgia two years ago, but now the Trump administration is set [...]
WWI Trench Guns: Shotguns for Ferocious Fighting
The warfighters of World War 1 had one foot in the past and one in the future. Swords and horses were still being used but automatic weapons, airplanes and tanks were newfangled weapons. When [...]
Off-Ramps to Nowhere
World War I was the war that broke Europe. The Russo-Ukraine War has broken the American public's patience with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, and maybe even with NATO — and, like WWI three years in, [...]
Fort Moore renamed Benning, this time for a corporal who fought heroically in WWI
Fort Moore, Georgia, will now be named for Army Cpl. Fred G. Benning, who received the Distinguished Service Cross for his bravery during World War I. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Fort Moore, [...]
Bennie Owens, QMC
During World War I, African Americans volunteered and participated in droves to fight for their country, just as they have done in every military conflict in the history of the United States. One such [...]
