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With a grin, he concluded, "I seem to remember another young man from Missouri who served with the field artillery in WWI and went on to become president - Harry S Truman!" ...
Two artillery shells found inside checked luggage by security screeners at O’Hare International Airport turned out to be about as dangerous as sea shells, but the military-grade munitions pro… ...
This German Field Manual was found by my grandfather and namesake William Campbell in a German artillery dug-out near Flesquieres in Northern France on 20 November 1917 when he was 20 years old ...
On June 6, 1917 he enlisted in Battery F, 1st Field Artillery, Kansas National Guard and obtained his second lieutenant's commission on July 5.
Granger was one of 35 Black Soldiers to graduate with the class of 2,500 – some of the first Black Soldiers ever to be commissioned at the field artillery school alongside whites.
Fort Cavazos, Texas, has been renamed Fort Hood, this time honoring a World War I soldier, Col. Robert Benjamin Hood. The ...
Using contemporary sources to demonstrate the power of artillery in this period, Nicholas will particularly focus on field weaponry, many examples of which are currently on display at Fort Nelson ...
MEDINA, N.Y. — More than 100 years after the end of World War One, there's an impressive memorial returning to Western New York. The Village of Medina welcomed back a rare British field gun that ...