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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 [...]
The F-22 that took down China’s surveillance balloon used the call sign ‘FRANK01’ in homage to a heroic pilot from WWI
On Saturday, as an F-22 pilot shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon floating near South Carolina, the call sign of the airman contained an homage to a WWI hero. Onlookers cheered as the pilot, identified as "FRANK01," circled China's [...]
How WWI changed how and what Americans eat at mealtimes
"Food Patriotism" in World War I America When German immigrants came to America, they brought the traditional staples of the German dinner table with them. Beer, sausages, and sauerkraut became almost overnight sensations. Then came [...]
Flanders provincial commemoration of WWI still touches hearts
The very last figurines in the possession of the Province of West Flanders Provincial Council from Coming World Remember Me (CWRM) are still occasionally donated to important provincial partners and foreign visitors who continue to [...]
First-Time Metal Detectorist Tells of Panic After Finding WWI Mortar Bomb
A first-time UK metal detectorist has spoken of panicking after realizing he had found an unexploded mortar bomb. Ryan Junor was metal detecting with his teenage son and friends on Tuesday night in Invergordon, Ross [...]
History of VA in 100 Objects/Object 52: Native American Recruits
At the start of the Great War in 1914, only about half of the 300,000 Native Americans in the United States were citizens. Although the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all “persons born or naturalized [...]
This Black Iowan saved hundreds of soldiers in WWI.
Should he have received a Medal of Honor? The bodies of his friends, men he’d grown to call brothers, lie just out of reach, twisted and mangled amid the battlefield’s muddy sludge. Every pause in [...]
WWI Veteran Dr. Frank Boston was a pioneer and laid the groundwork for modern EMS
As we observe Black History month, more facts have come to light about Army Veteran Major Frank Boston, who served in World War I. In addition to being the first African American to start both [...]
