...tranquil settlement southwest of Augusta was rapid and complete ? and began almost 72 years ago, when the U.S. War Department arrived to create what is known today as Fort Gordon."It wasn't just a single place," said archivist Ed Brown...

...tranquil settlement southwest of Augusta was rapid and complete ? and began almost 72 years ago, when the U.S. War Department arrived to create what is known today as Fort Gordon."It wasn't just a single place," said archivist Ed Brown...

...popularity of Sound Off among the GIs was noticed at the Pentagon, and before VJ Day, copies had been distributed by the War Department to U.S. military posts around the world.Duckworth's composition has been recognized by the American Society...

...example of this kind of flag."Despite orders after the Civil War to turn all captured flags over to the federal War Department, many Union troops kept them as souvenirs.Many other unit flags were destroyed during the war, either by capturing...

...information about the site.The 30.1-acre storage yard near Sunset Avenue and 15th Street was leased by the U.S. War Department from 1918 to 1955 and used as a shipping and storage yard for the Augusta Arsenal about three miles away.Known as...

...established a week before the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 as a union of private pilots scouting for the enemy. The War Department armed some of the pilots on the East Coast with depth charges, and they promptly sank two U-boats. A German submariner...

...Airmen as a group, we succeeded in doing what the war department said we couldn't do," said Hiram Little, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen. "The war department were certain that we were going to be a failure...

...Shiloh, Gettysburg and Vicksburg followed in the 1890s. Since the National Park Service didn't exist yet, the War Department oversaw the park until 1933. Just a year later, a group of Chattanoogans, led by Adolph Ochs, who would go on...

...promise a new Heaven and a new Earth." - From a report issued by the Military Intelligence Division of the U.S. War Department in 1946 Israel was founded in 1948. Five Arab nations attacked the next day, and were defeated. Arab nations attacked...

...the cartoons were able to pass through the movie industry's censors because the pieces were commissioned by the war department and were not for general movie audiences. Today, the cartoons might receive a PG-13 rating because of sexual innuendo...