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Years of service. 1969–1989. Rank. Chief Warrant Officer 3. Battles/wars. Vietnam War. Awards. Bronze Star Medal. Fang A. Wong (born February 27, 1948) is a retired United States Army warrant officer who served as the National Commander of The American Legion from 2011 to 2012.
The Paris Caucus. The American Legion was established in Paris, France, on March 15 to 17, 1919, by a thousand commissioned officers and enlisted men, delegates from all the units of the American Expeditionary Forces to an organization caucus meeting, which adopted a tentative constitution and selected the name "American Legion".
Bonus Army. The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus Expeditionary Force (B.E ...
The Forty and Eight was founded in March, 1920, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when World War I veteran Joseph Breen and 15 other members of The American Legion came together and organized it as an honor society for the Legion. They envisioned a new and different level of elite membership and camaraderie for leaders of the Legion.
Jul. 26—Since the Wisconsin American Legion baseball association switched the state tournament format to an eight-team, double-elimination tournament in 1968, Janesville has the most successful ...
The Carl L. Caviness Post 102, American Legion was built in 1925. It reflects Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture and was designed by Chariton architect William L. Perkins. In its National Register of Historic Places nomination, it was deemed "a good example of the Revival styles popular in the 1920s", a well-preserved work by ...
It has more than 150 posts across Washington, and its latest Form 990, filed with the IRS in 2021, listed 24,000 volunteers and 27 employees. ... The American Legion is trying to avoid disrupting ...
Margaret Gisolo. Margaret Gisolo (Oct. 21, 1914 - Oct. 20, 2009) was an American sportswoman and educator who while still a child was a pioneer in the history of women in baseball as the first girl to play American Legion baseball, a predecessor of Little League. At the time, she was "featured in newspapers across the country". [1]