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Army Almanac – Spring 2024

Take a journey through summers of yore with this issue’s Army Almanac, featuring thirty-plus important dates in Army history.

Camp Gordon, Georgia

The declaration of war on 6 April 1917 put the training camp idea on hold in favor of actual conscription and mustering of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). As a

27th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry

After a series of Union setbacks in the summer of 1861, it became clear that subduing the Confederacy would not be achieved by way of a single decisive battle. In

Soldier- Major General Joseph Holt

Joseph Holt was born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, in 1807. He attended Saint Joseph College and later moved to Louisville where he apprenticed to be an attorney.

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Length Feature articles should be 3,000 to 5,500 words long. Unit History, Soldier, Tools of War, and Post articles should be 1,500 to 2,500 words. Sidebars to features or other articles should be

The M240B General Purpose Machine Gun

Many infantry weapons past and present—automatic rifles, submachine guns, assault rifles, and general purpose machine guns—can be traced directly to World War I.

63d Infantry Division

Constituted on 18 January 1943 in the Army of the United States, the 63d Infantry Division, given the special designation “Blood and Fire,” first saw action in Europe when elements