enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. American women in World War I - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_women_in_World_War_I

    The First, the Few, the Forgotten: Navy and Marine Corps Women in World War I. Annapolis, MD: The Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-203-2. Frahm, Jill. "The Hello Girls: Women Telephone Operators with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 3#3 (2004): 271–293. online

  3. Thousand-yard stare - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare

    The painting, a 1944 portrait of a nameless Marine at the Battle of Peleliu, is now held by the United States Army Center of Military History in Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. [5] About the real-life Marine who was his subject, Lea said: He left the States 31 months ago. He was wounded in his first campaign. He has had tropical diseases.

  4. Battle of Peleliu - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Peleliu

    The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II by the US military, was fought between the United States and Japan during the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign of World War II, from 15 September to 27 November 1944, on the island of Peleliu.

  5. List of conflicts involving the Texas Military - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts...

    Battle of Plum Creek: Texas Militia: Mathew Caldwell: 11 KIA Victory October 1840 Battle of Red Fork Texas Militia: John H. Moore: Unknown Victory 1841 Battle of Bandera Pass: Texas Militia: John C. Hays: 5 WIA Victory 1852 Battle of Hynes Bay: Texas Militia: John Hynes Unknown Victory [51] Jan-May 1858 Antelope Hills expedition: Frontier ...

  6. A US Marine Corps aircraft has landed on a rebuilt runway on a World War II-era Japanese airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, site of one of the Marines’ bloodiest battles of the war and ...

  7. Women in World War I - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_World_War_I

    Greenwald, Maurine W. Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States (1990) ISBN 0313213550; Holm, Jeanne. Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution (1993) pp. 3–21 ISBN 0891414509 OCLC 26012907; Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War. Urbana: University of ...

  8. September 1944 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1944

    The Battle of Peleliu began between U.S. and Japanese forces on the island of Peleliu. The Battle of Morotai between Allied and Japanese forces began in the Maluku Islands . The French provisional government in Paris said it would try Vichy war criminals and issued warrants for the arrests of Philippe Pétain and his cabinet.

  9. Not the Alamo: Fields near San Antonio yield evidence of ...

    www.aol.com/not-alamo-fields-near-san-120313774.html

    SAN ANTONIO — It was the bloodiest armed conflict in Texas history. On Aug. 18, 1813, some 1,400 people died at the Battle of Medina and during the merciless streak of executions that followed.