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For a wounded soldier in "no man's land" during World War I, the sight of a dog on the horizon could sometimes mean the ...
In 1949 the U.S. War Department changed its name. Branches of the armed forces were then administered under the new name Department of Defence. This newly defined mandate of defending the United ...
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration dedicated new headstones for 17 World War I Black Soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, during a ...
The home of Army Aviation will be officially redesignated Fort Rucker on Thursday, July 17. The change, ordered on June 11 by the Secretary of the ...
C Ashley Furniture. Memorial Park is situated on 54 acres of lush grounds in the Hiawatha Valley along the Mississippi.
One of World War I’s enduring legacies is the wristwatch, which American soldiers referred to as ‘trench watches.’ ...
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. William B. Bucey, a Cleveland native who died as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II, will be ...
Fort Lee is now named for Pvt. Fitz Lee. The new namesake was a Buffalo Soldier who earned the Medal of Honor for his actions ...
Retropolis Unknown WWI soldier, found a century later, will now be buried with honors Remains of American ‘doughboy,’ whose identity is unknown, were accidentally unearthed in a French village ...
Called “the Unkillable Soldier,” he fought in three major conflicts and refused to stay sidelined for long despite losing an eye and hand in battle, surviving multiple plane crashes and being ...
The World War I exhibition uses fascinating artifacts and the distinctive sights and sounds of early combat aircraft to tell the story of how remarkable people adapted the new technology of the ...
To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the United States would fell acres of spruce.