Friday, May 8, 2026

Remembering a Veteran: Jimmy Doolittle's World War I

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General James Harold “Jimmy” Doolittle (1896–1993) was a pioneering pilot, aeronautical engineer, combat leader and military strategist whos...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

Three Poetic Images of Hell from Frederic Manning

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L'Enfer Georges Leroux, 1921 Grotesque (Poem) These are the damned circles Dante trod, Terrible in hopelessness, But even skulls have th...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

"Hell and Maria!" Charles Gates Dawes Tells Off Congress and Becomes a Celebrity

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Charles Dawes with the AEF Charles Gates Dawes (1865–1951) was one of the most colorful and substantial characters of America's 20th-cen...
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I

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Jonathan Reed Winkler  Harvard Univ. Press, 2008 Commander  Dale C. Rielage, U.S. Navy, Reviewer Originally presented in the Naval War Colle...
Monday, May 4, 2026

Sir Edward Grey's Debatable Culpability for the Great War

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  The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. Sir Edward Grey Sir Edward Grey By John Lewis-St...
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Sunday, May 3, 2026

The Allies' First Victory: The Battle of Mt. Cer, 15–24 August 1914

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Serbian Troops at Mt. Cer At the outset of World War I, Serbia found itself facing the might of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which sought to...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

Ten Interesting WWI Images I Found in the New York Public Library Digital Archives

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The New York Public Library, 1919 As you may guess, since the New York Public Library has vast collections of stuff on just about every topi...
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Friday, May 1, 2026

Where Did General Pershing Get His Initial Division for the AEF?

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When the U.S. Army began the conversion to brigade combat teams in 2004, it started to move cautiously away from the combined arms division,...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

A Floatplane Reconnaissance Over Beersheba—April 1915

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Nieuport N.16 aboard Rabenfels . Pilot is Lt. V Cintré and observer Captain R.E. Todd, 11/12 April 1915. (Credit : Association pour la Rech...
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