‘Give Me…’: For More Than Two Centuries, Those Words Have a Constant in Our Wartime Vocabulary
“Dammit, Brad, just give me 400,000 gallons of gasoline and I’ll put you inside Germany in two days"
Lest We Forget… the Handbrake. Former British Soldiers Crash Armored Vehicle Into Village Memorial on Armistice Day
Two former soldiers were at the center of the gaffe after they forgot to deploy the brakes of a Scimitar armored reconnaissance vehicle during the village’s moment of silence during Remembrance Day
New WWI Movie to Feature a Gay Love Story
The movie will begin filming in the summer of 2022
‘Victory at Gallipoli, 1915’ Book Review
Klaus Wolf examines the German-Ottoman alliance that led to victory in the World War I Gallipoli campaign
Retracing the Steps of the Unknown Soldier
Commemorating the centennial of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a delegation of 41 Americans—veterans, Tomb Guards and Gold Star Mothers—retraced through France over the past week
Paul Morando: Telling the Soldier’s Story
Paul Morando, chief of exhibits, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the National Museum of the United States Army
Rommel’s Last Day
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel hoped to find safety in the remote village of Herrlingen, but the town became a Nazi death trap for him in October 1944
How Harlem Hellfighter James Reese Europe Became a Ragtime Legend
“He was our benefactor and inspiration,” Eubie Blake, the jazz great, once said of James Reese Europe, who wielded a baton, not a rifle, for much of World War I
Poland’s Men in Blue and Their Struggle for Independence
Józef Haller dreamed of an army that would help bring about the return of an independent Poland
How the Plane Crash Scene in ‘1917’ Set Me on the Trail of My Grandfather
A dramatic scene in 1917, the film directed by Sam Mendes, set the author on the trail of his grandfather in World War I
How a World War I Jazz-Playing Marine Gave Us the Best Weapon Name Ever
A strange instrument became the namesake for a devastating weapon
New Exhibition to Examine the Oft Forgotten Eastern Front of WWI
The exhibit is set to open on August 27
Spymaster ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan’s WWI Exploits Profiled in Graphic Novel
While Donovan’s WWII exploits are fairly well-known, AUSA’s latest graphic novel highlights his time in the trenches of World War I
The American Woman Who Sculpted New Faces for Battle-Scarred WWI Vets
'I owe you great gratitude…for I wear and will always…wear the marvelous device that you created'
The Strangest Aircraft Ever Made for War, From the “Flying Flapjack” to the “Beetle”
Military aviation history is replete with designs in which looks—and often aeronautics—took a back seat to utility
That Time the Navy Spent a Million Dollars on an Ice Cream Barge
I scream, you scream...
