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The last issue of the WWI Stars and Stripes on June 13, 1919 July 19, 1918 -- A Stars and Stripes illustration by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. During World War I, the staff, roving reporters, and illustrators of the Stars and Stripes were veteran reporters or young soldiers who would later become such in the post-war years.
Bill Mauldin. / 38.880°N 77.070°W / 38.880; -77.070. William Henry Mauldin ( / ˈmɔːldən /; October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters ...
Guy Thomas Viskniskki (April 28, 1876 – September 5, 1949) was a career newspaper editor and news executive who founded the historic World War I edition of The Stars and Stripes newspaper while serving as a U.S. Army officer in France with the American Expeditionary Force. Viskniskki established the tradition of The Stars and Stripes as an ...
Photos: Stars and Stripes Picnic fireworks at National WWI Museum and Memorial. The Kansas City Star. July 3, 2022 at 2:40 AM. Kansas City got an early start celebrating the 246th anniversary of ...
Ernie Pyle. Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper ...
Memorial service held by soldiers of the "Fighting 69th" for 19 men lost in the 7 March 1918 Rouge Bouquet bombardment. "Rouge Bouquet" or "The Wood Called Rouge Bouquet" is a lyric poem written in 1918 by American poet, essayist, critic and soldier Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918). The poem commemorates an intense German artillery bombardment of an ...
The Stars & Stripes Picnic will be held at the Liberty Memorial in central Kansas City, just south of Union Station. Its street address is 2 Memorial Drive. The festival starts at 3 p.m. and wraps ...
John Philip Sousa ( / ˈsuːzə, ˈsuːsə / SOO-zə, SOO-sə, [ 1][ 2] Portuguese: [ˈso (w)zɐ]; November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches. [ 3] He is known as "The March King" or the "American March King", to distinguish him from his ...