Our Friends in France: Episode #80

Highlights

Our Friends in France: Episode #80

100 Years Ago: Why America Celebrated Bastille Day | @02:05

War In The Sky: Quentin Roosevelt falls | @10:05

America Emerges: Marne and more - Dr. Edward Lengel | @12:15

Great War Project: Writing WWI - Mike Shuster | @18:40

Commission News: $1.8M education partnership | @23:30

Remembering Vets: Finding your WWI Ancestors - Debra Dubek | @25:15

Stories of Service: Archiving those Stories of Service | @34:05

100 Cities / 100 Memorials: Saugerties NY - Bill Payne, Vince Buono & Lisa Polay | @36:20

Speaking WWI: “Alleyman” | @43:50

WWI War Tech: Minenwerfer and Trench Mortars | @45:55

Dispatch: Newsletter highlights | @48:15

The Buzz: Selected Social Media - Katherine Akey | @51:05----more----

World War One Then

100 Years Ago

the Franco-American relationship is our theme for this week’s history segment. We are going to take a look at how we honored --- and frustrated each other -- and we thought we might even set our centennial time machine to take a little deeper dive and touch on our relationship where it started  -- At very birth of our nation as we explore Franco American relations 100 years ago this week and more…

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/15/102721314.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/15/102721328.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/16/102722235.pdf

War in the Sky

Theodore Roosevelt’s beloved youngest son, Quentin, is shot down behind enemy lines and presumed dead.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/18/102723502.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/19/102724244.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/svc/tmach/v1/refer?pdf=true&res=9B01E5DB143EE433A2575AC1A9619C946996D6CF

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/20/98269287.pdf

America Emerges: Military Stories from WW1

Despite less-than-ideal circumstances, the Doughboys manage to stymie a strong German offensive, and the US 3rd Division earns its nickname: the Rock of the Marne.  

http://www.edwardlengel.com/portfolio/thunder-and-flames-americans-in-the-crucible-of-combat-1917-1918/

http://www.edwardlengel.com/turning-point-the-rock-of-the-marne-july-1918/

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

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

The Great War Project

Famous American literary figures, including Ernest Hemingway, are participating in the war in a variety of locations and capacities. Meanwhile, bolstered by one million American troops, the “Allies are seizing the initiative.”

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/07/08/hemingway-in-italy-dos-passos-in-france/

World War One Now

Commission News

This past Friday, July 13, The US WWI Centennial Commission announced a new $1.8 million WWI education program that brings together National History Day, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the National WWI Museum & Memorial.

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news.html

Remembering Veterans

Debra Dudek, an military genealogy research expert, joins the show to discuss her work and provide research advice to our audience.

https://www.amazon.com/World-Genealogy-Research-Guide-Non-Combatant/dp/1980916845

Stories of Service

If YOU have information about your ancestor’s service in WW1, you can submit it to a permanent national archive on our website! Host Theo Mayer explains.

ww1cc.org/stories - for submittal

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/commemorate/family-ties/stories-of-service.html - for exploring the stories

https://www.rollofhonor.org/ww1/ - for connecting the story to service profiles

100 Cities/100 Memorials

These week on 100 Cities/100 Memorials, Saugerties, New York, residents Bill Payne, Vince Buono and Lisa Polay join the show to talk about the WWI Centennial Room at American Legion Post 72.     

www.ww1cc.org/100cities

Speaking WW1

This week on Speaking WW1, our word is “Alleyman”, an American nickname for the Germans deriv