October 15, 2021

WWI

In Service
Book Reviews-Militaria Collecting

Book Review: In the Service of Our Country: The History of the United States Service Flag, by Jerry E. Dutscheck

Sep 2, 2021
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Auction News

Medal awarded to first British soldier killed during the Great War sells for £17,000 at Dix Noonan Webb Sale

Aug 18, 2021
The neck flap was quilted, providing an extra layer of protection from the cold.
Headgear

Gor Blimey! The WW1 British Winter Service Dress Cap, 1914-1916

May 25, 2021
JAGs Relics in 30 seconds: 1920 AFG Megaphone
Accouterments

JAG's Relics in 30 Seconds: AFG Megaphone

The large U.S. Signal Corps portrait of Father Arthur A. LeMay was purchased more than thirty years ago at a VFW tag sale for $1. The portrait reunited with LeMay’s tunic and overseas cap in 2008.
Uniforms

WWI Doughboy Chaplain: Father Arthur A. LeMay, AEF

Apr 21, 2021
Grace Banker
Museums, Clubs, Organizations

March offers up Women’s Month, National Medal of Honor Day and Homeschool Month discount at National WWI Museum and Memorial

Mar 9, 2021
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Museums, Clubs, Organizations

'Why Keep That' exhibit opening at National WWI Museum and Memorial January 27th

Jan 14, 2021
Silk And Steel
Museums, Clubs, Organizations

Special Exhibition “Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI” Opens Friday, Sept. 25 at National WWI Museum and Memorial

Sep 9, 2020
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Museums, Clubs, Organizations

National WWI Museum and Memorial Launches Free Resources for Educators & Students

Aug 3, 2020
Online Collections Database
Museums, Clubs, Organizations

National WWI Museum and Memorial receives $125,000 from National Endowment for the Humanities for digitization/transcription of WWI letters

Jun 29, 2020
Operation Drafted
Museums, Clubs, Organizations

National WWI Museum and Memorial reopens with new programs and events

Jun 2, 2020
Belgian group shot Yser kepis and Gras rifles
Knives / Swords / Bayonets

French Gras Bayonets and Rifles For Belgian Soldiers in WWI and WWII

Mar 22, 2021
Wartime photo shows Parsons holding his helmet in front of his Escadrille plane.
Military History

My Little League coach was a WWI aviator

Apr 13, 2020
A closer look at the sergeant shows him to have the American Forces in Germany (AFG) unique MP collar emblems, four overseas stripes and four Army service stripes as well as his ever-present NCO whistle.
Photographs and Ephemera

WWI AEF/AFG Portraits

Feb 13, 2020
Private James F. Callahan, Co. F, 17th Evacuation Hospital, Siberian Expeditionary Force posed wearing his 1907 pattern cap backwards as was often suggested by photographers.
Photographs and Ephemera

Snapshots 2020 No. 1

Mar 20, 2020
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Book Reviews-Militaria Collecting

Books in Review: Play Ball! Doughboys and Baseball During the Great War

Jan 2, 2020
The author’s own Enlisted Model 1917 Medical Belt with complete contents out of pockets. This belt is dated July of 1918.
Accouterments

Ten decades later, 1917 medic’s belt is a worthy challenge for patient collectors

Dec 23, 2019
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Militaria Collectibles

Spanish Military Pride: Army Uniforms under King Alfonso XIII of Spain

Apr 2, 2021
Vietnam Logo New
Museums, Clubs, Organizations

‘The Vietnam War: 1945-1975’ at National WWI Museum and Memorial

Nov 5, 2019
In early 1918, the US War Department created the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) as a way to hasten the training of soldiers for the war. Students in the SATC would simultaneously take college courses and train for the military. The intensive training course at Bliss Electrical School where Maurice Bryant served provided training for electricians. This photo shows SATC drafted men from the Washington, D.C., area installing wires for the electric lights and motors in the wiring laboratory at the school, August 13, 1918. National Archives
Photographs and Ephemera

The SATC: They Also Served

Nov 12, 2019
Propaganda card showing members of Himmler’s SS Technische Nothilfe / Technical Emergency Aid organization. The TENO (Technische Nothilfe —Technical Emergency Relief) had been founded in 1919. Today, the organization still exists as the Technische Hilfswerke (Technical Assistance).
Medals

Teno

Nov 12, 2019
Drawing by J. Simont titled, “Fighting in a crater during the Battle of Verdun, France."
Medals

Medals for the WWI Battle of Verdun

Jun 4, 2020
Children dressed in costume honored Prince Ferdinando of Udine, head of the Italian War Commission to the United States, at a ceremony in Lewisohn Stadium at the College of the City of New York, June 23, 1917. Library of Congress Flickr Commons project, 2015
Medals

Allied War Commission Medals

Nov 8, 2019
Working on the recreation of  a Model T ambulance.
4. 1 to 2-ton Vehicles (M715s,CUCVs, HMMWVs, GTBs, G-506s, etc.)

"Hunka Tin?" WWI Ford Model T Ambulance

Jan 22, 2021

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