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By Alexander Falbo-Wild   In 1917, the US Army faced fighting a war with new technology, tactics, and organization. For centuries, regiments had been the predominant tactical formation for European countries which later informed the Continental Army structure. But this was displaced in favor of the division at the start of the 20 th  century. Divisions existed in the American Civil War, but the scope and character of the fighting in the early 20 th  century meant that the div

So like a soldier to make light of a serious subject when there is nothing that can be done about the situation and lice is certainly one such subject. Most American doughboys in WWI were familiar with lice before joining Uncle Sam’s Army, but they soon became intimately involved and focused on them in the European trenches. Pediculus humanus is actually two subspecies, Pediculus humanus capitas (head lice) which infest only human heads by laying eggs on the hair shafts and d

The Origins of Operation Overlord by Joseph Balkoski Churchill and Roosevelt with the First Quebec Conference host, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The long and lamentable history of war yields a universal truth: the life-or-death fates of thousands of young men engaged in human conflict are inevitably determined by just a few much older men. At 5:30 PM on Monday, August 23, 1943, two of the most famous old men in the world, 68-year-old Winston Churchill

Remembering Medal of Honor Recipient Augustus Walley Augustus Walley Manekin at the Maryland Museum of Military History Walley was...