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FOCUS ON: Non-Combatants of WWI - Ep.#139

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FOCUS ON: The Non-Combatants of WWI

Episode #139

Host - Theo Mayer

  • Unprecedented  logistics - Joe Johnson | @ 05:00
  • The US Army Signal Corps - Host | @ 09:15
  • The Hello Girls - Dr. Elizabeth Cobb | @ 11:30
  • Medical Support Services & the AFS - Nicole Milano | @ 15:50
  • The US Postal Service in WWI - Lynn Heidelbaugh | @ 22:15
  • The Stars & Stripes - Robert Rheid | @ 25:40
  • The Doughboy’s Sweetheart: Elsie Janis - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 28:15
  • Bringing Soldiers to God and God to Soldiers - Dr. John Boyd | @ 32:05
  • Donuts and Coffee - Patri O’Gan | @ 34:25

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    FOCUS ON: The Non-Combatants of WWI
    Sources

    Terrett, Dulany, “The Signal Corps: The Emergency (to 1941),” The Army Signal Corps, https://history.army.mil/html/books/010/10-16/CMH_Pub_10-16-1.pdf

     

    DARPA

    https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/about-darpa

     

    Gray, Andrew, “The American Field Service,” American Heritage, December 1974, https://www.americanheritage.com/american-field-service

     

    “World War I Rations:  Full Belly, Fully Ready,” Army Heritage Educational Center, https://www.armyheritage.org/75-information/soldier-stories/359-worldwar1rations

     

    World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 27

    https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/2747-ww1-centennial-news-episode-27-7-05-2017.html

     

    World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 62

    https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4179-ww1-centennial-news-episode-62-03-09-2018.html

     

    World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode  82

    https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4838-ww1-centennial-news-episode-82-7-27-2018.html

     

    World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 34

    https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3043-ww1-centennial-news-episode-34-8-23-2017.html

     

    World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 68

    https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4369-ww1-centennial-news-episode-68-04-20-2018.html

     

    World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 69

    https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4385-ww1-centennial-news-episode-69-04-27-2018.html

     

    World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 54

    https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3949-ww1-centennial-news-episode-54-01-12-2018.html

     

    World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 115

    https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/6077-ww1-centennial-news-episode-115-03-22-19.html

     

    Senate Hello Girl Bill

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/206/all-info

    House Hello Girl Bill

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1953

    Sponsors:

    The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission

    The Doughboy Foundation

    Production:

    Executive Producer: Dan Dayton

    Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

    Line Producer: Juliette Cowall

    Written by: Theo Mayer and David Kramer

    Editing:

    Mac Nelsen

    Tim Crowe

    Website support: JL Michaud

    Special guests:

    Joe Johnson of the Defense Acquisition University

    Professor Elizabeth Cobbs

    Nicole Milano from the American Field Services

    Lynn Heidelbaugh from the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum

    Robert Rheid from Stars & Stripes

    Historian Dr. Edward Lengel

    The US Army Chaplains Corps Dr. John Boyd

    Patri O’Gan from the Smithsonian Institution

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