{"id":12950,"date":"2016-03-10T03:45:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T09:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=12950"},"modified":"2016-03-10T03:45:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T09:45:47","slug":"military-history-the-lost-doughboys-of-world-war-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/10\/military-history-the-lost-doughboys-of-world-war-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Military History: The Lost Doughboys of World War I"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Hunt Continues for American MIAs from WW1<\/h1>\n

\u201cOrganizers hope that Doughboy MIA\u00a0will help raise awareness of the sacrifices made a century ago by U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines during during the so called War to End All Wars.<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

AS MANY AS<\/strong>\u00a04 million American military personnel served in the First World War. More than\u00a0110,000 of them never returned;\u00a04,400 are still listed as missing in action.<\/p>\n

Now with the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of U.S. involvement in the Great War<\/a> fast approaching, the Washington D.C.-based United States World War One Centennial Commission<\/a> is hoping to shine the spotlight on these forgotten warriors with a new project: Doughboy MIA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The online initiative, which is fully accessible\u00a0to the public, is home to a number of useful resources. Among them\u00a0is a complete database of every unaccounted for<\/a> American soldier from the campaign in France and the war at sea, as well as MIAs from the lesser-known Allied interventions in the Russian Civil War<\/a> from 1918 to 1920.<\/p>\n

Organizers hope that Doughboy MIA\u00a0will help raise awareness of the sacrifices made a century ago by U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines during during the so called War to End All Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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According to the project\u2019s own founders, efforts to finally lay World War One\u2019s missing combatants to rest have long since been overshadowed by MIAs from more recent\u00a0American war: Vietnam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThese days, when one speaks of soldiers missing in action, the first thought that comes to most people\u2019s mind are those who were lost during the Vietnam War and the controversy that has long since surrounded them,\u201d say organizers of the project. \u201cYet the truth is the issue didn\u2019t start there. Far from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For years following the 1918 Armistice<\/a>, recovering the remains of unknown soldiers from the battlefields of France was the responsibility the U.S. Army Quartermasters Corps<\/a>\u2019Graves Registration Service<\/a>. While\u00a0scouring the terrain of the Western Front for more than a decade, investigators unearthed more than 1,600 fallen American soldiers \u2013 many of which were still never positively identified. Even so, the bodies were transferred\u00a0to nearby military cemeteries like the ones\u00a0at\u00a0Meuse-Argonne<\/a>\u00a0and St.\u00a0Mihiel<\/a>. By 1932, the military officially suspended the search and transferred all outstanding cases to the American Battle Monuments Commission<\/a>, the government agency that administers military cemeteries. Since then, the bodies of only 26 American personnel from the First World War have been recovered, the most recent of which was buried\u00a0in 2009.<\/p>\n

Doughboy MIA hopes that next year\u2019s centenary of the U.S. declarations of war on the Central Powers will rekindle public interest in this forgotten sidebar of American history.<\/p>\n

To visit the site yourself, CLICK HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n

Read the Original Article at Military History Now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hunt Continues for American MIAs from WW1 \u201cOrganizers hope that Doughboy MIA\u00a0will help raise awareness of the sacrifices made a century ago by U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines during during the so called War to End All Wars.\u201d AS MANY AS\u00a04 million American military personnel served in the First World War. More than\u00a0110,000 of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1286,2820,4418,4547,1911,1898,3545],"tags":[5363,3823,5364,4859,5365],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}