United States Military History

Highlighting members of the 6888th Battalion from Fort Worth, Texas

This month's blog post is the second in an occasional new series, entitled “Thar’s Gold in Them Thar Archives!” which will highlight little-known…

This month, in honor of Veterans Day, we feature a post on the World War I diary of Albert S. Johnson.

On December 7, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into WWII. Texans from every community answered the call to serve in the…

Claassens’ work has spanned nearly two decades, and still, he was looking for one thing: a good picture of his charge. And then...