Drafted into the service in January 1942 at the age of 27, Pfc. Robert D. Watts, best known as Dalton to his family and friends, personified the American G.I. of World War II. Dalton, unmarried, was the oldest son with three brothers, all of whom served their country, and seven sisters.
In the midst of 1944, World War II raged in both Europe and the Pacific. Cpl. David L. Conway, a married man with a two-year-old daughter at home, had been stationed in Washington, DC, far away from the theaters of operation.
The American Battle Monuments Commission in conjunction with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) and Virginia Tech (VT) has released Bringing the Great War Home: Teaching with the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, a free World War I Teacher’s Guide.
Shortly after Cpl. William H. Myers, Jr., arrived overseas with the 571st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion in November 1944, he learned he was going to be a father.
Every marble headstone and every name on the Wall of the Missing at an ABMC cemetery represents a person who gave the ultimate sacrifice. These people were fathers, mothers, brothers, uncles, sons, and daughters.
National History Day (NHD) announced this morning the launch of phase one of a new, free teacher resource, abmceducation.org.
On May 8, 1945 the world celebrated the end of World War II in Europe, but for some young American children it represented the beginning of a lifetime without their fathers. It’s estimated that more than 180,000 American children were left fatherless after the war.
Allied forces conquered Sicily in the summer of 1943, securing the island by August 17. This defeat precipitated the fall of Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini, and the new Italian government negotiated an armistice with the Allies.
The United States and Great Britain have been firm allies for a century. Their mutually beneficial relationship particularly deepened during World War II, when the circumstances of war brought hundreds of thousands of Americans through the British Isles.