Frank Armiger
September 17, 1862: The Fifth Maryland Attacks the "Bloody Lane" at Antietam
The Fifth Maryland Infantry Regiment was organized at Baltimore City, Maryland, in September 1861, to serve three years. On the...
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Frank Armiger
Jul 172 min
Thomas D. Howie: "The Major of St. Lo"
On this day 80 years ago, Major Thomas Howie was killed in action in the outskirts of St. Lo. It was the day before the 29th Infantry...
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Frank Armiger
Jun 234 min
“EXECUTE OPERATION OVERLORD”
Ike Selects D-Day by Joseph Balkoski For four months Eisenhower had focused his undivided attention on Overlord, but as of May 8, 1944,...
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Frank Armiger
May 161 min
The Maryland National Guard at the Preakness
By Edward Heimiller, Archivist, Maryland Museum of Military History Thirty years ago, in 1984, thoroughbred racehorse Gate Dancer...
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Frank Armiger
Jan 303 min
Black Stevedores Deployed to France in World War I
By Richard Morain, Volunteer at the Maryland Museum of Military History As work continues at the Maryland Museum of Military History, the...
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Frank Armiger
Sep 13, 20232 min
Soldiers in the Cold with the Sibley Stove
A Soldier’s Poem from the Maryland National Guard and Naval Militia Newsletter No. 21 April, 1940 As a result of thirty years...
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Frank Armiger
May 13, 20233 min
“WHO WILL COMMAND THIS OPERATION?”
Ike Takes On Overlord By Joseph Balkoski The name of Dwight Eisenhower will forever be intertwined with the history of D-Day. But for...
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Frank Armiger
Nov 1, 20223 min
"The Most Glorious Episode in Our History"
The D-Day Airborne Mission By Joseph Balkoski Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Nevertheless, in Operation Overlord the Allies...
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Frank Armiger
Aug 22, 20225 min
WFBR: World's First Broadcasting Regiment
By Joshua Gamma, Museum Curator, Maryland Museum of Military History If you are a Marylander of a certain age, you probably listened to...
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Frank Armiger
May 11, 20223 min
"He Who Defends Everything, Defends Nothing"
Rommel and the Atlantic Wall by Joseph Balkoski General Montgomery’s revised OVERLORD plan strove to ensure victory by relying on that...
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Frank Armiger
Mar 2, 20222 min
Why the "Dandy Fifth"
Prior to the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776, General William Smallwood’s Regiment composed in a large part of the sons of the...
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Frank Armiger
Dec 1, 20213 min
“A BODYGUARD OF LIES”
Operation Fortitude Fools the Germans by Joseph Balkoski By the third day of the Tehran summit, code-named “Eureka,” that trinity of...
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Frank Armiger
Aug 24, 20213 min
“LIKE A GOD FROM OLYMPUS”
Montgomery Tackles Overlord by Joseph Balkoski On New Year’s Day, 1944, the two most famous Englishmen of their day drove north toward...
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Frank Armiger
Apr 16, 20213 min
“WE’RE GONNA DIE!”
Exercise Tiger by Joseph Balkoski In The Guns at Last Light, page 191, Rick Atkinson depicted the August 5, 1944, death of Rear Admiral...
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Frank Armiger
Jan 12, 20215 min
The Maryland Line Saves Washington's Army
In the closing days of June 1776, British troops under General William Howe, having evacuated Boston, sailed into New York harbor. In...
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Frank Armiger
Sep 12, 20208 min
Remembering the Maryland Military at the Battle of Antietam on its 158th Anniversary
On September 17, 1862, the bloodiest day of any American war occurred on the soil of the state of Maryland near the village of Sharpsburg...
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Frank Armiger
Jul 5, 20203 min
“I COULD CHEERFULLY SHOOT THE OFFENDER”
Overlord Security Measures by Joseph Balkoski In April 1944 the restaurant in Claridge’s, the renowned Mayfair hotel just blocks away...
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