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WWI Liberty Loan operation produced some of the 20th century’s most recognizable commercial art
Every major American war has been paid for with some combination of taxes, borrowing, and — in a few cases — inflation. This page is about the borrowing part: the war loans and bonds the U.S. [...]
A century of the ‘Ma Deuce’: How the M2 Browning became America’s workhorse machine gun
Gen. John J. Pershing requested development of a multipurpose heavy machine gun the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI. We're still using the result today. For over a century the M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun, [...]
Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime
April 23–November 1, 2026 During World Wars I and II, nearly every nation involved recognized that it was necessary to provide materials to maintain soldier wellbeing and morale. Because foot soldiers had to carry [...]
Finding the Hello Girls: A Journey of Discovery and Connections
Finding (Auntie) Nemo The seeds that led to my Hello Girls journey were first planted in the fall of 2011. As my son was leaving for college, he suggested in a humorous manner that [...]
Not a Museum, but a Mirror: How one book, one library event and one basketball game revealed the Hello Girls’ living legacy
Like many of you, I grew up with family stories about my grandmother, Marie Edmée LeRoux, who served in World War I. I knew she had gone to France. I knew she had done something [...]
U.S. Marine Corps Quote of the Day by Lewis “Chesty” Puller: ‘Pain is weakness leaving the body’
“Pain is weakness leaving the body.” – Lewis “Chesty” Puller Lewis “Chesty” Puller was one of the most decorated Marines in all of American history. Having enlisted right at the end of the First World War, Puller [...]
What The Great War Still Teaches: WWI History and the Making of Future Officers
Standing Where Others Fell In the summer of 2025, Cadet Amani Haskins and a group of fellow West Point cadets stood at a monument in the French countryside – the sister monument of one [...]
A Primer on Iran’s (Persia’s) Rather Unpleasant World War I Experience
Persia (now Iran) is little known as a theatre of the First World War, but events there influenced global politics in the years following the war. Although Persia declared its neutrality in 1914, it [...]
This WWI soldier saved two men from a burning tank with his bare hands
When the American Expeditionary Forces joined the Allied armies on the Western Front in World War I, there was one condition upon which their commander, Gen. John Pershing, insisted. He wanted the AEF to [...]
