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Swashbuckling World War I correspondent launched his reporting career in Minneapolis
Floyd Gibbons blossomed into one of America's most colorful newspaper reporters in the early 1900s — but only after getting off to a rocky start in Minneapolis. Graduating from Minneapolis Central High School in 1904, [...]
Selfridge Military Air Museum to restore World War I Jenny plane
Jenny was among the planes used to train pilots at Selfridge Field in 1917 The arrival of a new plane at Selfridge Military Air Museum in Harrison Township is always exciting news no matter how many times [...]
‘I Want You’: 5 Of America’s Best World War I Recruitment Posters
World War I produced the United States’ most iconic military propaganda poster of all time. “I Want You for U.S. Army” by James Montgomery Flagg You know the one: A stern Uncle Sam, [...]
Fayette County, Ohio’s Last World War I Death in Service
Nearly eight months to the day after Armistice had been declared, Fayette County, Ohio lost its last son in World War I. Seaman Second Class Homer Perdue drowned on July 12, 1919, in the sinking [...]
The American Woman Who Reported on Japan’s Entry Into World War I
Journalist Eliza Scidmore was also the visionary behind Washington, DC’s famous cherry trees. Eliza Scidmore, an American journalist and travel writer, was in Yokohama in the summer of 1914 when World War I broke out. [...]
Has the U.S. Ever Fought On Russian Soil? You’d Be surprised.
The story of how American troops battled Lenin’s soldiers in northern Russia may be missing from most history books—but the forgotten conflict still influences relations between nations to this day. Then he left Michigan in [...]
Westchester County resurrects 102-year-old World War I Memorial
Westchester County held a ceremony on Friday, August 4th rededicating memorial plaques and trees for those who gave their lives in World War I at the Westchester County Center. The event was hosted by Westchester County [...]
How the Start of World War I Changed an American Heiress’s Life Forever
On the one hand, Mrs. Stan Harding Krayl, as she was known in Germany, and Mrs. Marguerite Harrison had much in common. Well bred, well educated, and well traveled, both were reddish-haired beauties with mischievous [...]
Veteran seriously wounded during Second Battle of the Marne in World War I
Throughout the years, Mark Weber heard many fascinating tales about his great uncle, Henry Weber, who was wounded in World War I and laid in a trench before being discovered by a fellow soldier. [...]
