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Remembering Medal of Honor Recipient Augustus Walley Augustus Walley Manekin at the Maryland Museum of Military History Walley was...
Frank Armiger
Jul 53 min read
"The Maryland 400" Saves Washington's Army
by Richard Morain, Maryland Museum of Military History "The Maryland 400" at the Battle of Brooklyn Throughout history, there have been...
Frank Armiger
Feb 223 min read
"The Time is Short"
Allied Engineers Plan for D-Day by Joseph Balkoski 121st Engineers, 29th Division on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944 Rommel had kept the German...
Frank Armiger
Nov 5, 20243 min read
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...
Frank Armiger
Sep 17, 20242 min read
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...
Frank Armiger
Jul 17, 20242 min read
“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,...
Frank Armiger
Jun 23, 20244 min read
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...
Frank Armiger
May 16, 20241 min read
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...
Frank Armiger
Jan 30, 20243 min read
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...
Frank Armiger
Sep 13, 20232 min read
“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...
Frank Armiger
May 13, 20233 min read
"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...
Frank Armiger
Nov 1, 20223 min read
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...
Frank Armiger
Aug 22, 20225 min read
"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...
Frank Armiger
May 11, 20223 min read
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...
Frank Armiger
Mar 2, 20222 min read
“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...
Frank Armiger
Dec 1, 20213 min read
“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...
Frank Armiger
Aug 24, 20213 min read
“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...
Frank Armiger
Apr 16, 20213 min read
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...
Frank Armiger
Jan 12, 20215 min read
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...
Frank Armiger
Sep 12, 20208 min read
“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...
Frank Armiger
Jul 5, 20203 min read
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