Fort Wayne Military History

Fort Wayne, Indiana · topic

Fort Wayne Military History

Wars, the home front, veterans, armories and those who served.

Gen. Anthony Wayne, steel engraving after Alonzo Chappel. Public domain · source file

Fort Wayne Wars, Unrest and Disasters: Rosters and RecordsWars, Unrest & Disasters · the systematic recordThis section is the systematic companion to the rest of the Fort Wayne record. The deep narratives — Harmar's defeat, the 1812 siege, the great floods, the blizzard of 1978, the shooting of Vernon Jordan — are told at…§ 32Fort Wayne's World War I Home Front, 1917–1919The Home Front · Fort Wayne in the First World War, 1917–1919This section is the home-front companion to the Wars record. The units are there — Batteries B and D of the 150th Field Artillery, Company E folded into Battery D, the county's three thousand five hundred service…

Fort Wayne Military History: From the Forts to the 122nd Fighter Wing15 entry pages

Fort Wayne War Heroes: Medal of Honor Recipients and Honor RollsWar Heroes · the decoration record and the honor rollsThis section holds the county's honor record: the men and women of Fort Wayne and Allen County who were decorated for valor, and the rolls on which the county has written the names of its dead. It is built only from…

Fort Wayne Veterans: VFW Posts, the Veterans Council and Days of RemembranceVeterans · the posts, the council, and the city's days of remembranceFort Wayne's veterans came home from every war and built organizations to look after each other, and those organizations became part of the city's civic frame: post halls on Main Street and Bluffton Road, a county…

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Source: Fort Wayne Military History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/fort-wayne/topics/military/

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