On Point Digital Edition – September 2020
The Army Historical Foundation is proud to deliver to you this latest September Issue of On Point in a digital application and new format.
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Museum Spotlight: The Global War Gallery
The Global War Gallery will tell the story of the Army’s operations around the globe during World War II. Occupying 6,500 square feet, it will be the largest within the Fighting for the Nation Galleries. The gallery’s main focus begins in 1941, running through the end of the war, and explores how over eight million …
Museum Snapshots – The Knox Trail Diorama
Rather than sending visitors on a chronological forced march through time in the Fighting for the Nation Gallery, the National Museum of the U.S. Army will provide a focused and unique series of exhibits that from the outset get to the heart of the history of the United States Army’s role as a newly created fighting …
Kazuo Yamane
By Matthew J. Seelinger During World War II, thousands of Japanese-American soldiers proudly served in the U.S. Army. These men, known as Nisei (second generation Japanese born in the United States), did so despite the internment of many Japanese-Americans due to their ethnic background. Once given the opportunity to serve, many men enthusiastically volunteered for …
The Battle of Newtown, August 29, 1779: An Aggressive Attack Carried Out With Audacity
Written By: MAJ Glenn T. Williams, AUS-Ret. In 1778 the Continental Congress authorized funds and instructed General George Washington to send an expedition of the Continental Army into Iroquois country to “chastise,” or punish, “those of the Six Nations that were hostile to the United Stated.” For more than two years, four of the Iroquois …
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Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves, Jr.
Written By: Patrick Feng Since the end of World War II, there has been a significant amount of literature on the Manhattan Project. The effort to develop the atomic bomb led to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hastening the end of the war against Japan. Relatively little, however, has been written on the key …
The 291st Engineer Combat Battalion
Written By: David Lemelin It was almost sundown near the village of Neucy, Belgium. A thick fog had settled over the ground, worsening the already poor twilight visibility. SS Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Peiper squinted down the road, past the lead tanks of his panzer column and towards the Neufmoulin Bridge, a small wooden structure barely …
Chut, J’ecoute: The U.S. Army’s Use of Radio Intelligence in World War I
Written By: Betsy Rohaly Smoot “This source of information, practically unthought-of before the war, has been developed to such an extent that, at the close of hostilities, it constituted one of the main branches of intelligence.” Captain Charles H. Matz, Radio Intelligence Officer, First Army, American Expeditionary Forces, November 1918 The United States entered World …
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Artwork of Samuel Johnson Woolf
Written By: Katie Holt An artist well known for his portraits of twentieth-century influential figures, Samuel Johnson Woolf spent four months in France during World War I with the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). As an artist-correspondent for Collier’s Weekly, Woolf was embedded in the trenches along the front and behind the lines. Immediately upon returning …
China-Burma-India Theater Artwork
The China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater of World War II offered a new set of challenges for U.S. forces. Often referred to as the “Forgotten Theater,” the CBI had a unique feel due to the various national interests involved as well as the difficult terrain of the region. With Japan steamrolling through much of Southeast Asia in …