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The seated soldier on the right has four overseas stripes and is ignoring the two soldiers toasting behind his head. The pipe smoking soldier on the left has leaned his tin of pipe tobacco (recognizable as Prince Albert tobacco) and box of matches against a wine bottle.
Photographs and Ephemera

Interesting WWI photo archeology

By Alexander F. Barnes
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7. Tanks, Armor, and Tracked Military Vehicles

A WWI movie star

By John Norris
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JAG File: All things History

"I Just Saluted The Kaiser" and 19 other expressions the Great War gave us

By John Adams-Graf
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

By Ryan Roth
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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

By Military Trader
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

By John Adams-Graf
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

By William F. Howard
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Museums, Clubs, Organizations

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

By Military Trader
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Museums, Clubs, Organizations

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

By Military Trader
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

By Military Trader
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Museums, Clubs, Organizations

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

By Military Trader
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

By Military Trader
Operation Drafted
Museums, Clubs, Organizations

National WWI Museum and Memorial reopens with new programs and events

By Military Trader
Belgian group shot Yser kepis and Gras rifles
Knives / Swords / Bayonets

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

By Eddy Boomputte
Wartime photo shows Parsons holding his helmet in front of his Escadrille plane.
Military History

My Little League coach was a WWI aviator

By Ron Norman
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

By Alexander F. Barnes
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

By Military Trader
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Book Reviews-Militaria Collecting

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

By John Adams-Graf
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

By Ron Leverenz
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Militaria Collectibles

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

By William K. Combs
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Museums, Clubs, Organizations

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

By Military Trader
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

By Alexander F. Barnes
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

By Chris William

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