Maryland Military Historical Society

As early as 1917 when the Fifth Regiment was recruiting to war strength, a promise was made that the names of all the men would be perpetuated in bronze in return for their volunteering for the service of their country. While the Regiment was overseas, the Women’s Board of the Fifth Regiment, which was organized in 1916 when the Regiment went to the Mexican Border, applied and o...

The Origins of Operation Overlord by Joseph Balkoski Churchill and Roosevelt with the First Quebec Conference host, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The long and lamentable history of war yields a universal truth: the life-or-death fates of thousands of young men engaged in human conflict are inevitably determined by just a few much older men. At 5:30 PM on M...