August 7, 2017Before August 1942 the Allies and Japanese had clashed in the air and in the waters of the Pacific, but they had not faced each other in major ground combat. And there had been no major American amphibious landings. That changed in the Solomon Islands.
August 1, 2017Not long after the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, the United States perceived a new threat to western Democracy –communist expansion in Asia. The U.S.
July 29, 2017As bombing raids over mainland Europe began in the summer of 1942, leadership from the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) also understood the need for air support in the Pacific, and China-Burma-India Theaters of Operations.
July 26, 2017When the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, the American Regular Army stood at 130,000, a paltry number of soldiers for a nation that had just entered a global conflict. Gen. John J.
July 25, 2017Watch "Selling" World War I to the American Public: How Posters Shaped Public Opinion. During a Facebook Live chat, ABMC staff members Eric Marr and Sarah Herrmann looked at four posters used in the United States during WWI.
July 18, 2017In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, millions of Americans served far from home. In the various conflicts, service members fought in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific.
July 14, 2017Under artillery fire southwest of Arras, France on July 14, 1917, Capt. Louis J. Genella of the U.S. Army’s Medical Reserve Corps, became the first combat casualty of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF).
July 4, 2017On July 4th, 1942 the first American bomber mission flown from England by the U.S Army Air Forces (AAF) flew towards the occupied Netherlands.
