Australia and Oceania-Papua New Guinea
The 97th Engineering Regiment (1941-1948)
In 1941 the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the construction agent for the War Department, maintained construction battalions...
George Watson (1915-1943)
George Watson was a United States Army private who during World War II was responsible for rescuing several soldiers from...
Lemuel Augustus Penn Sr. (1915-1964)
Lemuel Augustus Penn Sr. was the assistant superintendent of the District of Columbia (D.C.) public schools, a lieutenant colonel in...
Tulinabo Salama Mushingi (1957 – )
Dr. Tulinabo S. Mushingi was the U.S. Ambassador to the West African nation of Burkina Faso. After nomination by President...
24th Infantry Regiment (1866-1951)
When the U.S. Army was reorganized on July 28, 1866, for peacetime service after the American Civil War, six regiments...
Race, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955
During its brief and rocky tenure from 1918 to 1924, pianist Gertrude Harvey Wright was one of four women in...
