Kawkab Amirka, كوكب أمريكا, Vol. 1, no. 50. Articles in English in this issue include: a description by an English soldier of four months spent in Afghanistan; an overview of Persian literature; a description of Ottoman soldiers' traits; and a report…

From Trey Matthews: "Joseph Safy, son of George Joseph and Susie Safy. Joseph was killed in action when his plane was shot down over Germany during WWII on 9 Sep 1944. He was interred in Lorraine American Cemetery in France."

A hand-colored photograph of Shikery Salem in his World War I military uniform.

The Syrian Soldier in Three Wars, or al-Jundi al-Suri fi Thalath Horoub, includes the memoirs of Gabriel Ward. Ward was a Syrian-American who enlisted in the US Army and fought in the Spanish-American War in Cuba, in the Philippines War and in WWI.…