March 1918 Overview - Episode #61

Highlights - Healers of WW1

March Preview - Roundtable with Dr. Edward Lengel, Katherine Akey & Theo mayer | @02:15

Spoils of War from Russia - Mike Shuster | @13:10

Medicine in WW1 - Charles Van Way, George Thompson & Sanders Marble | @18:30

New VSO WW1 support site @ ww1cc.org/veteran | @26:00

African American nurses in WW1 - Dr. Marjorie DesRosier | @27:35

100C/100M project from Raymond WA - Gordon Aleshire | @33:25

Women Physicians in WW1 - Eliza Chin, Keri Kukral & Mollie Marr | @36:50

Speaking WW1 - “Archie” | @43:10

WW1 War Tech - The Browning Machine Gun | @45:05

WWrite Blog on Brest-Litovsk Treaty | @47:10

American War Artist and his curator - Katherine Akey | @48:10----more----

Opening

Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - episode #61 - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week  - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.

Today is March 2nd, 2018 and our guests for this week include:

Dr. Edward Lengel, Joining Katherine Akey and I in a March preview roundtable.

Mike Shuster, from the great war project blog with an update on the fallout from the Russian defeat on the Eastern Front

Charles Van Way, George Thompson, and Sanders Marble on Medicine in WW1 and their new website at the Commission

Dr. Marjorie DesRosier on the struggle of African American Nurses in WW1

Gordon Aleshire, telling us about the 100 Cities/100 Memorials project in Raymond, Washington

Eliza Chin, Keri Kukral and Mollie Marr telling us about the short documentary At Home and Over There: American Women Physicians in World War I

Katherine Akey, with a special report on an amazing French WWI photography curator

A great lineup -- today -- on WW1 Centennial News -- a weekly podcast brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Starr foundation.

I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show.

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Preface

Last month we did an experiment. Dr. Edward Lengel, Katherine and I sat down together - as we often do in our editorial meetings - and talked about the upcoming month of February.

We got great feedback from you so we are going to do it again, here at the top of March!

I put a sidecar on our centennial Time Machine so we’d all fit as we roll back 100 years to the war that changed the world!

World War One THEN

100 Year Ago This Week

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Overview Chat with Ed, Katherine and Theo

Ed, Katherine - welcome to early March 1918.

[Ed & Katherine make some comment]

So guys - I understand that this is our last chance to take a breather - Starting this month, the action gets pretty hot and heavy with the Germans getting ready for their big Spring offensive.

[Katherine - you use the term Kaiser Schlagt or Emperor’s Strike. Is that the same thing as the “spring offensive?”]

[Ed - this is going to go on for months going forward - can you give us an overview and what the German’s have in mind?]

[Quick change of subject - As we get into the military action we keep throwing around all these names of military formation like division, corps, regiment, brigade -  and I’ll wager 80% of our audience has no idea of what all that means - so let’s do an overview - We sent over a Field Army - that’s the big one - the American forces]

[Ed - can you break it down for us - sort of big to small and tell us about how many soldiers are in these various formations?]

[Force building in Europe - March - April - May - June etc…]

[Now that we have a clear idea that there are ARMIES on the ground -

As the German offensive starts - Our US General Pershing needs to integrate with the French and the British commands - How does all that lay out?]

[Flu begins]

That was Dr. Edward Lengel and Katherine Akey as we talked about an overview for the upcoming month of March, 1918 and even looking forward a bit more than that.

Next week we will be back to our regular 100-years-ago this week fo