Showing posts with label WW1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW1. Show all posts
Aug 31, 2014

The Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935

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After World War One, veterans were offered a service bonus payable in 1945. And that was a fine and good thing, but along came the Great ...
Mar 16, 2013

Sergeant Stubby

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(Wikipedia) Sergeant Stubby (1916 or 1917 – March 16, 1926), was the most decorated war dog of World War I and the only dog to be promot...
Nov 11, 2012

Armistice Day

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We never observed Veterans Day in my house, growing up. We observed Armistice Day. "It was intended for those who fought in World War...
Aug 13, 2012

Opha Mae Johnson

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(Wikipedia) Opha Mae Johnson (February 13, 1900 – January 1976) was the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. She join...
Jul 28, 2012

The Bonus Army

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'On July 28, 1932, protesters known as the "Bonus Army," or "Bonus Expeditionary Forces (B.E.F.)," who had gathe...
Jul 25, 2012

2009: Harry Patch, Britain’s last WWI soldier, dies

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"It wasn't worth it." - Harry Patch
Jun 28, 2012

Still Toxic After All These Years

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(Aegis) Minute amounts of a World War I blister agent were found at an Aberdeen Proving Ground demolition site after a pipe was broken ...

World War I

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(LoC) A Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sofia in Sarajevo on June 28, 1...
Feb 8, 2012

'World's last' WWI veteran Florence Green dies aged 110

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(BBC) A woman thought to be the world's last known surviving service member of World War I has died aged 110. Florence Green, from King...
Nov 11, 2011

My Dutiful Balloon: Precarious Reconnaissance in The Great War

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While wandering through a churchyard the other day we found an odd line on a gravestone: 28 BALLOON CO. That was a new one. We were a stone...

Veterans Day

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The Allied powers signed a ceasefire agreement with Germany at Rethondes, France, at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918, bringing the war, late...
Nov 9, 2011

Armistice Day

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We never observed Veterans Day in my house, growing up. We observed Armistice Day. "It was intended for those who fought in World War O...
Oct 15, 2011

Dembytown

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"In 1917 Harford's decades of sunny, prosperous, and seemingly unending tranquility were abruptly interrupted by America's ent...
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Jul 28, 2011

The "Bonus Army"

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'On July 28, 1932, protesters known as the "Bonus Army," or "Bonus Expeditionary Forces (B.E.F.)," who had gathered ...
Jul 17, 2011

The Spanish Civil War

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(LoC) The Spanish Civil War began on July 17, 1936 as a series of right-wing insurrections within the military, staged against the constitut...
Jun 26, 2011

"Lafayette, we are here" - The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I

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(Wikipedia) ... The first American troops, who were often called "Doughboys", first landed in Europe in June 1917. However the AEF...
Mar 16, 2011

Sergeant Stubby

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(Wikipedia) Sergeant Stubby (1916 or 1917 – March 16, 1926), was the most decorated war dog of World War I and the only dog to be promoted t...
Mar 3, 2011

Frank Buckles, Last World War I Doughboy, Is Dead at 110

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(NYTimes) Frank Buckles, who drove an Army ambulance in France in 1918 and came to symbolize a generation of embattled young Americans as th...
Nov 11, 2010

Veterans Day

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(LoC) The Allied powers signed a cease-fire agreement with Germany at Rethondes, France on November 11, 1918, bringing World War I to a clo...
Oct 3, 2010

Disappearance of USS Cyclops remains one of the sea's most enduring mysteries

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(Baltimore Sun) The last anyone heard of the Cyclops as it steamed in a voyage that began in Bahia, Brazil, on Feb. 22, 1918, en route to Ba...