History tells us, and has done for years, that the name of America came from one Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine transatlantic explorer who was a navigator with Christopher Columbus in 1499, and the first geographer to realise that the Americas were separate continents.
I'm pretty sure that this is true... Don't be mad if I'm wrong though please.
Some easy topics to write about is serving during D-day and fighting on iwo jima you could also write about just general living conditions around the frontlines and the people and landscapes you see.