Showing posts with label WWI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWI. Show all posts
Monday, February 5, 2024

Soldiers of the Soil

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  During World War II, my mother told me about planting Victory Gardens that helped feed the nation, while farmers worked not only to feed c...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

World War I Letter of Dr. Robert C. Gill of Norwalk, Ohio

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                                                                 Dr. Robert C. Gill Courtesy of Michael Belis and Find A Grave Robert C. Gil...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The Sinking of the Lusitania

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RMS. Lusitania On May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania , t he British ocean liner, the largest in the world, was returning to Liverpool, Eng...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

WWI Creates Suspicion of Loyal German Americans

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Courtesy Library of Congress When America entered the First World War, the Wilson administration launched a massive propagand...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Dalton Smith Hayes World War I Memoir

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                                 DALTON SMITH HAYES WW I MEMOIR D alton Hayes was born June 22,1898 at Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio. He ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Corporal Glenn Burkett, U. S. Army WWI

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Corporal Glenn Burkett, Fremont, Ohio   On July 18, 1918, the Second Battle of the Marne marked the turning of the tide in WWI. It bega...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Colonel Webb C. Hayes during World War I

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Colonel Webb C. Hayes, second son of President Rutherford B. Hayes, is pictured here(fourth from the left) with Italian aviators at the ai...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Who Are These WWI Soldiers??

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During the 1980s, Hayes Presidential Center staff made a concerted effort to interview WWI soldiers and record their  wartime experiences....
Monday, November 4, 2013

Lt. Charles J. Hammer: 147th Infantry Regiment WWI

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 Charles J. Hammer Fostoria, Ohio    Charles J. Hammer, born in Fostoria in Seneca County enlisted in Fremont, Ohio, in the 6th ...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Corporal Elton Mackin: World War I Marine

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Corporal Elton Mackin WWI Marine, 1918 Born in 1898 in Lewiston, New York , Elton Mackin enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in ...