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How Valiant Hearts: Coming Home Honors The Harlem Hellfighters
Valiant Hearts: Coming Home, the sequel to the award-winning Valiant Hearts: The Great War, is available now exclusively for Netflix members on the Netflix mobile app. The game tells the stories of four ordinary people dealing [...]
Citizenship for conscientious objectors in the wake of World War I
Exploring Hurdles to Gain Citizenship In the wake of World War I, the U.S. Bureau of Naturalization inserted a new question into the application for prospective citizens: “If necessary, are you willing to take up [...]
Mesa resident, veteran pens new WWI fiction thriller
At age 92, Navy veteran J.B. Rivard uses cinematic storytelling for his newest book that almost went up in smoke. “Low on Gas – High on Sky,” about record-setting aviator Nick Mamer, partly inspired Rivard’s [...]
Kimball World War I Memorial shows Black veterans’ fight for democracy
In 2023, the Kimball World War I Memorial in McDowell County is the only American memorial in the country kept in honor of black WWI veterans, the National Coal Heritage Area group reported. The three-story [...]
The Controversial Truth Behind a Modern Military Legend
On October 8, 1918, seventeen soldiers from the 82nd Division, American Expeditionary Force, led by acting Sgt. Bernard Early, flanked a German machine gun nest that had inundated their unit with withering fire. In this [...]
A family tie to U.S. Navy ship Cyclops led to three books about the WWI mystery ship
I was first acquainted with the existence of the U.S. Navy ship Cyclops when I was quite young. Occasionally I would spend some time at my grandparents’ shop in Baltimore where my father worked. On [...]
WWI cabin finds home in Verona, VA
VERONA, Va. (WHSV) - A piece of history has found a home in the Valley. A 100-year-old cabin from World War I has been unloaded at the 29th Division Museum in Verona. “After World War [...]
Meet the ‘Arizona Balloon Buster,’ the ace WWI pilot famous for shooting down enemy balloons on ‘suicide’ missions
A US Air Force F-22 fighter jet using the callsign "FRANK" fired a single air-to-air missile at a high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon on Saturday, sending debris plummeting off the coast of South Carolina and calling attention [...]
Hidden History Presentation about Doctor Frank Boston on March 4 in Des Moines
The Athene Speaker Series at the Fort Des Moines Museum will feature a Hidden History Presentation about Doctor Frank Boston on March 4. The event takes place at 2:00 pm CST at 75 E Army [...]
