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Military/Veteran · Bayview, Idaho, United States
Farragut Naval Training Station
1942 - 1946
Nearly 300,000 sailors learned to be sailors on a lake in northern Idaho, three hundred miles from the nearest ocean.
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Military/Veteran · San Juan, Puerto Rico
The 65th Infantry Regiment
March 2, 1899 - 1956
They were decorated, and then they were court-martialled, and the Army admitted almost fifty years later that the two things were connected.
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Military/Veteran · Memphis, Tennessee, United States
The Sultana
1863 - April 27, 1865
More people died on the Sultana than on the Titanic.
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Military/Veteran · Pine Camp, New York, United States
The Ghost Army
1944 - 1945
The Army recruited them out of art schools and advertising agencies, gave them inflatable tanks and a set of gramophone records, and sent them to impersonate whole divisions of...
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Military/Veteran · Quartzsite, Arizona, United States
The United States Camel Corps
1855 - 1866
In 1855 the United States Congress appropriated thirty thousand dollars to buy camels, and for about ten years the United States Army had a camel corps in Texas.
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Military/Veteran · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
The Bonus Army
1932
In the summer of 1932 men who had been shot at in France built a town out of scrap lumber and packing crates on the mud flats across the Anacostia River from the Capitol dome, a...
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Military/Veteran · Missoula, Montana, United States
The 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps
1896 - 1897
Twenty Black soldiers rode bicycles from Montana to Missouri in 1897 to find out whether the Army should use bicycles.
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Military/Veteran · United States
The Hello Girls
1918 - 1979
They took the Army oath, wore the Army uniform and the Army identity disc, and could be court-martialled under the Army code.
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Military/Veteran · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
USS Mason (DE-529)
March 20, 1944 - October 12, 1945
A destroyer escort, commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on March 20, 1944, with a crew of about two hundred and four men — roughly a hundred and sixty of them Black, at a time...
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Military/Veteran · Sandy Springs, South Carolina, United States
Corporal Freddie Stowers
1896 - September 28, 1918
The paperwork was filed in 1918.
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Military/Veteran · Pall Mall, Tennessee, United States
Sergeant Alvin C. York
1887 - 1964
He tried not to go.
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Military/Veteran · Clark Mills, NY
Seaman First Class Gerald "Bud" Dwyer
May 14, 1924 - February 10, 2010
A permanent member of the greatest generation, Bud served his country with honor and his community with dedication.
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