• Japan in WWI - Dr. Frederick Dickinson | @02:15

Dr. Frederick Dickinson, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Japan expert, joins the show to discuss that country’s pivotal role in the Great War.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_during_World_War_I

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/japans-about-face-timeline-japanese-military-history/1168/

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-62-supernova-in-the-east-i/

http://www.navyhistory.org/2014/11/world-war-i-centennial-symposium-the-thirst-is-real/

http://www.macarthurmemorial.org/DocumentCenter/View/1366/2014-WWI-Symposium-82814?bidId=

http://www.history.upenn.edu/publications/2001/frederick-r-dickinson

http://www.history.upenn.edu/publications/2013/frederick-r-dickinson

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-62-supernova-in-the-east-i/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_SzUVNo8I

https://www.c-span.org/video/?322722-5/discussion-japan-world-war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oSaG0WiD8

The war enters a chaotic phrase across the world, as several foreign armies fight for territory in disintegrated Russia and German troops begin to surrender en masse in the West.  

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/08/05/fighting-erupts-across-the-east/

The U.S. 28th Division engages the Germans in heavy street fighting for the towns of Fismes and Fismette.

http://www.edwardlengel.com/street-fighting-100-years-ago-28th-division-pennsylvania-national-guard/http://www.edwardlengel.com/portfolio/thunder-and-flames-americans-in-the-crucible-of-combat-1917-1918/

https://www.facebook.com/EdwardLengelAuthor/

http://www.edwardlengel.com/about/

Watch the Great War Channel for a succinct summary of the events of May, June, and July 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb3a78Baxz8

Commission staffers took part in commemoration events for the centennial of the Battle of Amiens in France. Visit our international page to catch up on all the action.

www.ww1cc.org/international

Tamsin Dillon and Emma Enderby join the show to discuss the Dazzle Ship Series project.

https://www.1418now.org.uk/commissions/dazzle-ship-series/

The subject of this week’s installment of War Tech is Dazzle Camouflage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zty8tfr

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/submarines_and_submarine_warfare

https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol19/tnm_19_171-192.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage#cite_note-Newark74-1

http://www.shipcamouflage.com/2_5.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDbq7y20wpw

www.ww1cc.org/100cities

Our phrase this week is “Third Light”, referring to the potentially deadly consequences of lighting a third cigarette in a trench.

https://people.howstuffworks.com/why-is-it-bad-luck-to-light-three-cigarettes-with-one-match.htm

https://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/10-first-world-war-slang-words-we-still-use-today/

The headlines from this week’s dispatch newsletter: Bells of Peace participation continues to grow, ‘Women in the Marines’, WW1 Centennial coin sets and silver medals from the US Mint, Purple Hearts and the First World War, and the story of doughboy Charles Benjamin Mead.

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/subscribe.html

On social media this week, the discussion mainly revolves around the Battle of Amiens and events commemorating it.  

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/commemorate/event-map-system/international-event-experience-page.html

http://www.centenarynews.com/article/100-years-ago---battle-of-amiens--start-of-the-hundred-days