Remembrance Journal
Notes from our researchers on military history, remembrance, and the practical work of tracing a relative who rests on foreign soil.
In the frozen Ardennes, Germany's last great offensive cost tens of thousands of American lives. Many rest today at Luxembourg, Ardennes and Henri-Chapelle.
Dr. Eleanor W. Hayes · December 16, 2016
Between the fighting there was waiting — and in the waiting, servicemen reached for cards and dice. A look at the games that kept morale alive in the World Wars.
Harold V. Pruitt · November 11, 2016
The largest battle in American history is also one of its least remembered. More than 14,000 of its dead lie in a single cemetery in France.
Dr. Eleanor W. Hayes · September 26, 2016
Private, corporal, sergeant, lieutenant, captain — a plain guide to the ranks you will meet in a serviceman's record, and what each one meant.
Thomas R. Clarke · August 15, 2016
Not every name in this archive marks a grave. Many belong to the missing — the lost at sea, the unrecovered, the unknown.
Sarah L. Abbott · July 4, 2016
Above Omaha Beach lie 9,388 Americans. A short history of the most visited of all the overseas cemeteries.
Dr. Eleanor W. Hayes · June 6, 2016