ABMC's 2017 Veterans Day message features Marine Col. Wayne Sinclair, who explains the importance of the youngest generation understanding what it means to serve. Watch the message below.
In honor of Veteran’s Day, 19 new World War II lesson plans are being released on the award-winning, ABMCeducation.org.
In early November 1942 the United States had been at war against the Axis for almost a year, but had yet to come to grips with German or Italian ground forces. Fierce fighting against the Japanese in the Pacific had dominated the national news and psyche. Yet President Franklin D.
Tomorrow marks the ceremonial groundbreaking for the national World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C. To coincide with this event in Pershing Park, a joint American Battle Monuments Commission/World War I Centennial Commission photo exhibit is also available to view through December 8, 2017.
Only a few nations fought World War I singly, outside of formal alliances. Mostly, empires and coalitions of countries fought on behalf of their partners against members of rival alliances.
On the night of November 3, 1917 at 2:30 a.m. German artillery began a harassing barrage of Allied forces about a mile southeast of Arracourt, France.
ABMC would like to invite you to participate in “The H Hour” a podcast run by our historical research interns. The first podcast will be on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 2:00 pm EST.
The United States had a small standing Army in April 1917 when the country officially joined the Great War. Most of the men in the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were new soldiers in need of training.
Watch “Examining How Nations Honored Their Fallen after World War II,” a recent Facebook live chat with Dr.