The WWI muster rolls provide a monthly list of the individual WWI veterans who were present within army units during the war. In addition to providing names and serial numbers of individual WWI soldiers assigned to specific units, these reports can also indicate status changes such as transfer to...
In honor of Veterans Day, here is a list of WWI and WWII sites you should visit. Historical war sites in Europe honor the fallen of each world war.
In addition to the newspaper honor rolls, which are the most common, you will also find them published in local, and even national, books on the war, on plaques in individual communities (or museums, historical societies, or meeting halls of veterans’ groups), and even framed on parchment...
In the dark cold winter nights of February 1940 deportations of Polish inhabitants of the eastern borderlands of Poland began. Many of them were veterans of the Polish - Soviet War of 1920 who were granted land. 1.7 million people would be deported by the Soviets with roughly 1/3 of them...
(80 percent of the crew) on the sick list, with 58 fatalities. Forty-one were buried ashore, with all eventually returned for re-burial in the United States. In their memory, a 20-foot-high white granite obelisk carved with the names and ratings of the sailors was erecte...