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 …
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 …
[Featured Image: An American patrol pauses near an Afghan town in Sergeant First Class Elzie Golden’s 2003 oil on canvas, The Hazara Province. (Army Art Collection)] October 2016 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the beginning of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan against al Qaeda and the Taliban. Following the 11 September 2001 attacks …
While an argument can be made that Army Aviation began with the use of observation balloons during the Civil War, the Army’s initial foray into modern aviation came with the acquisition of its first aircraft from the Wright brothers in 1909. Over the next several years, the American aircraft industry developed slowly; when the United …
Sergeant First Class Amy L. Brown, the U.S. Army Center of Military History’s (CMH) current Artist-in-Residence, first came to CMH in 2012 after serving as an instructor at the Defense Information School, Fort Meade, Maryland. Not long after arriving at CMH, Brown deployed to New York and New Jersey in the wake of Hurricane Sandy …
On 16 December 1944, the German Wehrmacht launched what would be its last major offensive in the West. After a powerful bombardment from 2,000 guns and Nebelrwerfer rocket launchers, three German armies with 250,000 soldiers and 1,000 tanks and assault guns advanced against the thinly held American lines in the Ardennes, a hilly and heavily …
