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Echoes of Valor: Oscar Hampton “Buddy” Bowers, heroic veteran of WWI
To preclude those now faint echoes from receding entirely and probably forevermore, I would like to introduce my father (Dad), Oscar Hampton "Buddy'' Bowers 1879-1978, heroic veteran of WWI (The Great War). I am [...]
The Two-Year Mark: What World War I (1916) Teaches Us About The Ukraine War (2024)
There are many analogies between 1916 and 2024, two years into World War I and the War in Ukraine respectively. It offers a clear way to try to understand what may happen next in Ukraine [...]
1,000th Performance Of Daily Taps At The National World War I Memorial In Washington, DC
Daily Veterans tribute started in 2021, is unique in the United States. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States World War I Centennial Commission and the Doughboy Foundation marked the 1,000th performance of Daily Taps [...]
The Last Doughboy: Remembering Frank Buckles
In 2008, I connected with a Michigan photographer named David DeJonge. David and I both wanted to restore the D.C. War Memorial located on the National Mall, and our discussions about that initiative soon turned [...]
Gloucestershire foundry completes WWI memorial for US
The final piece of America's first national memorial to US servicemen killed in World War One is being bronzed at a foundry in Gloucestershire. American sculptor Sabin Howard and the Pangolin Foundry in Stroud have [...]
Survival and Rescue at Sea: The First Mission of Ensign Kenneth R. Smith, USN
Newly commissioned Kenneth Smith was a 1917 graduate of Yale University and member of the First Yale Aviation Unit. The story of his first combat mission is an epic one. Kenneth Smith (R) and [...]
The Truth About WWI “Trench Guns”
During the First World War, the Winchester M1897, fitted with the M1917 bayonet, (colloquially called the “trench gun” by collectors) became perhaps the most iconic and immediately recognizable American small arm of the conflict. It is unusual, [...]
Losing a son and brother: A Quincy family and World War I
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, the U.S. Army was generally small, inexperienced and poorly equipped for warfare on the European front. In contrast, National Guard units, including the all Black, [...]
“Ready”… a title befitting the East Hartford, CT Doughboy
The Town of East Hartford, Raymond Library, the Rochambeau-Elms Post 2083 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, East Hartford Veterans Commission, and the Historical Society of East Hartford have since 2018, had a wreath laying [...]
