WW1 Centennial News

• Episode Setup | @02:50

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/09/09/huge-american-presence-on-the-attack/

http://www.edwardlengel.com/the-yanks-break-through-the-battle-of-st-mihiel-1918/

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/

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ww1/stmihiel/stmihiel.htm

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/17/102833693.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/18/102834323.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/16/106216023.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/16/106216018.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/16/106216024.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/16/106216036.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/17/102833702.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/18/102834309.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/19/102834772.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/19/102834811.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/19/102834842.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/17/102833719.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/19/102834809.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/19/102834845.pdf

http://ww1cc.org/YourAce

http://ww1cc.org/bells

http://ww1cc.org/film

https://www.thisisalabama.org/2017/10/04/meet-nimrod-t-frazer-veteran-turned-businessman-whos-champion-alabama-history/

http://alabamaliving.coop/article/a-soldiers-story/

http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Send-the-Alabamians,6181.aspx

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/dispatch/2017/08/27/french-consul-general-moved-alabamas-own/606780001/

www.ww1cc.org/100cities

http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/tanks.htm

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

https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-09-15/day-tanks-changed-war-forever

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/the-western-front-in-world-war-one/tanks-and-world-war-one/

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/keegan-first.html

https://www.weather.gov/media/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/Miscellaneous/fronts/fronts.pdf

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

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

http://1418.aisne.com/a-la-une/les-projets-du-conseil-departemental/article/hommage-au-370e-regiment-d-afro-americains

https://globalnews.ca/news/932833/griefs-geography-mapping-torontonians-killed-three-wars/

https://globalnews.ca/news/3852998/canada-poppy-map/

• September 1918 Overview - Dr. Edward Lengel, Katherine Akey, Theo Mayer @| 01:55

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/09/02/wilson-sends-troops-to-wild-siberia/

http://ww1cc.org/YourAce

http://ww1cc.org/bells

http://ww1cc.org/film

http://ww1cc.org/newjersey

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/4915-gridiron-on-the-great-lake.html

https://www.amazon.com/Gridiron-Great-Lake-Doug-Bigelow/dp/198191420X

www.ww1cc.org/100cities

www.caswellriflerange.com

www.ww1cc.org/edu

www.ww1cc.org/subscribe

http://mentalfloss.com/article/31882/12-technological-advancements-world-war-i

http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_HMS_Furious.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/battle-of-st-mihiel-was-americas-first-d-day-2014-9

https://www.army.mil/e2/rv5_downloads/d-day/the-meaning-of-dday-fact.pdf

https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Saint-Mihiel-1918

http://www.first.army.mil/content.aspx?ContentID=200

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

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

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irishvoice/irish-american-soldiers-wwi

https://www.facebook.com/armyhistory/videos/324903311612661

• Labor Day, Unions, Sedition, Bombs, the Babe and Butte  | @ 02:00

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/05/97024579.pdf

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/2708-cubs-red-sox-world-series-in-1918-key-in-u-s-love-affair-with-national-anthem.html

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/behindthebadge/chicago-bombs.html

https://www.iww.org/sv/history/resolutions/Convention_war_1916

https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/unions/iww/1918/0904-defensenews-chicagobomb.pdf

http://time.com/4955623/history-national-anthem-sports-nfl

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1918ws.shtml

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/ct-wrigley-field-national-anthem-20170703-story.html

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/1918_World_Series

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth#Boston_Red_Sox_(1914–1919)

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/08/26/continuous-attacks-on-the-western-front/

http://ww1cc.org/YourAce

http://ww1cc.org/bells

http://ww1cc.org/film

www.ww1cc.org/michigan

https://durhammuseum.org/exhibits-collections/current-exhibits/

http://www.rep-am.com/life-arts/travel/2018/08/25/re-enactors-from-18-nations-gather-at-site-of-world-war-i-battle/

https://www.theeagle.com/news/world/volunteers-re-enact-world-war-i-encampment-in-verdun-france/image_988caf68-09c8-5e4b-8062-6dbb790108fa.html

https://knx1070.radio.com/articles/ap-news/volunteers-re-enact-world-war-i-encampment-verdun-france

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/100-years-later-returning-to-the-western-front-in-france/2018/08/23/84e7053a-9cd7-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f46e9f23f472

www.ww1cc.org/edu

www.ww1cc.org/subscribe

https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/thomas-splint/

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/travel/the-52-places-traveler-ypres.html

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Mémoire-Histoire-Aisne-608872762557987/photos/

• Airplanes to end the war: Some say! | @ 02:05

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/26/97021408.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/27/97021702.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/28/97022080.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/28/97022172.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/29/97022393.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/30/97022850.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/01/97023380.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/01/97023386.pdf

http://centenaire.org/en/autour-de-la-grande-guerre/aviation/history-us-air-service-world-war-i

http://www.theaerodrome.com/services/usa/index.php

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/08/19/planning-the-war-of-1919/

http://www.edwardlengel.com/fiery-finale-doughboys-battle-to-the-death-at-fismette-1918/

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

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

https://www.legion.org/convention

http://ww1cc.org/YourAce

https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/memories-retold-elijah-wood-1202834748/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cYeBO8zwc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sP6BYe2LE4

https://www.vg247.com/2018/04/25/11-11-memories-retold-is-a-new-story-driven-game-set-during-first-world-war/

http://doughboyduo.com

https://www.engr.ncsu.edu/news/2017/05/26/above-the-battlefields-of-world-war-i/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_military_ballooning#World_War_I

https://mashable.com/2016/03/02/wwi-balloons/#nGRfpJmxX8qR

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/04/world-war-i-in-photos-aerial-warfare/507326/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3087941?mag=doughboy-slang&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/balloon43.htm

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

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

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/announcements/lff-62-peter-jacksons-they-shall-not-grow-old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ePxpbDmykD4

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/05/28/608455970/in-russia-scant-traces-and-negative-memories-of-a-century-old-u-s-intervention?t=1534495208000

• 100 years ago: Ready to increase US forces to 4 million | @ 02:10

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/20/97019005.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/21/97019317.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/21/97019459.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/22/97019708.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/23/97020009.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/24/97020331.pdf

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2016/09/world-war-i-conscription-laws/

https://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/conscientiousobjection/MilitaryClassifications.htm

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/27/102727379.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/06/22/102712419.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/10/97015719.pdf

https://library.ccsu.edu/dighistFall16/exhibits/show/industry-ct-ww1/women-in-the-factories

http://www.nber.org/chapters/c6304.pdf

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/american-labor-in-the-20th-century.pdf

http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/2002/3/02.03.09.x.html

http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/kim.shtml

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2017/10/labor-problems-under-war-conditions-women-in-the-workforce-in-wwi/

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/08/12/huge-american-presence-on-western-front/

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

http://www.edwardlengel.com/stories-of-combat-1918-pennsylvanias-28th-division-in-fismette/

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

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

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/4727-warriors-in-khaki-wyoming-indian-doughboys-in-the-great-war.html

https://www.military.com/off-duty/2018/02/12/hello-girls-documentary-celebrates-wwi-female-telephone-operators.html

https://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/522596006/the-hello-girls-chronicles-the-women-who-fought-for-america-and-for-recognition

https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2018/07/05/ignored-for-decades-wwi-heroines-could-be-recognized-with-congressional-gold-medal/

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/01/08/barbed-wire-war-how-one-farmers-innovation-changed-the-battlefield/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/03/23/_99_invisible_roman_mars_the_history_of_barbed_wire.html

https://www.nps.gov/home/planyourvisit/upload/Barbed%20Wire%20Brochure,%20final.pdf

https://www.rushcounty.org/BarbedWireMuseum/BWhistory.htm

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/keegan-first.html

https://www.weather.gov/media/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/Miscellaneous/fronts/fronts.pdf

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

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

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=558465584556136&id=259804527755578

https://www.facebook.com/theworldwar/posts/10156542633006241

http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/OTOSB?promotionno=304296

• 100 years ago: Ready to increase US forces to 4 million | @ 02:10

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/20/97019005.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/21/97019317.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/21/97019459.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/22/97019708.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/23/97020009.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/24/97020331.pdf

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2016/09/world-war-i-conscription-laws/

https://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/conscientiousobjection/MilitaryClassifications.htm

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/07/27/102727379.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/06/22/102712419.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/10/97015719.pdf

https://library.ccsu.edu/dighistFall16/exhibits/show/industry-ct-ww1/women-in-the-factories

http://www.nber.org/chapters/c6

• 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

• August 1918 Preview Roundtable - Dr. Edward Lengel, Katherine Akey, Theo Mayer | @02:05

Dr. Edward Lengel, Host Theo Mayer, and Katherine Akey discuss the key events and themes of August 1918, including the pivotal Battle of Amiens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amiens_(1918)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1918

As the Allied offensive barrels forward and German casualties mount, Berlin begins to recognize that the war is unwinnable.

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/07/29/the-allied-offensive-gains-strength/

Commemoration season kicks into high gear in Europe, with events and reenactments scheduled in Britain and France

http://ww1cc.org/international

http://www.centenarynews.com/article/battle-of-amiens-centenary-commemorations-in-france

http://www.centenarynews.com/article/shropshire-remembers-wilfred-owen-august-november-2018

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HvnP1_ymAKYYkTES2BFt3hcTh8cDGFdw/view

https://www.facebook.com/armyhistory/videos/10156654988097853/

Tracy Robinson joins us from the Daughters of the American Revolution to discuss the contributions of the DAR during the Great War.

www.dar.org/archives

https://www.dar.org/archives/women-resilience-dar-service-world-war-i

https://www.dar.org/sites/default/files/QuasquiFlashbackMJ15.pdf

https://blog.dar.org/celebrate-125-monday-daughters-aid-war-recovery

Bill Jackson, an archivist for Harley Davidson, joins us to tell the story of this iconic company and its motorcycles in the Great War.

https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/en/museum/explore/archives.html

http://www.ridingvintage.com/2012/12/war-machines-american-motorcycles-of-wwi.html

https://www.thrillist.com/cars/history-of-u-s-military-motorcycles

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/06/29/100-year-old-harley-davidson-returns-from-france-to-honor-american-wwi-soldiers.html

Jim Davenport, past president of the Rotary Club of Dunmore and owner of Dunmore Properties, and Louise McLafferty, retired director of the YMCA, join us to promote the new WW1 memorial in Lackawanna County, PA.  

www.ww1cc.org/100cities

Our word for this week is Stormtrooper- no, George Lucas did not coin it!

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

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/04/09/achtung-sturmtruppen-10-amazing-facts-about-the-germanys-ww1-stormtroopers/

http://www.starwars.com/news/from-world-war-to-star-wars-stormtroopers

The subject for this week’s installment of War Tech is something we use everyday: Stainless Steel.

http://online.wsj.com/ww1/stainless-steel

http://www.portlandworks.co.uk/portland-works-and-the-invention-of-stainless-steel/

The highlights of this week’s weekly dispatch include: the American Society of Landscape Architecture on the approval of the Memorial design, a new Suffragettes-themed walking tour in DC, Humphrey Bogart in WW1, honoring Choctaw veterans in OK, and Doughboy MIA Corporal Clarence Hawkins. Also, check out our official merchandise!

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

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

Katherine Akey highlights our recent social media activity, including photos and articles of memorial dedications and re-dedications across America, and a WW1-themed Tuesday Trivia video from the US Army Center of Military History.  

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/belmar-slash-lake-como/articles/video-belmars-treasured-doughboy-statue-is-welc

https://www.facebook.com/ww1centennial/photos/a.290566277785344.1073741829.185589304949709/1041510199357611/?type=3&theater

http://www.salina.com/news/20180531/solomon-veterans-memorial-to-be-dedicated-saturday

https://www.facebook.com/armyhistory/videos/10156645173917853/?hc_ref=ARSmTaMW9TTbWFGwsQuxbCt6H6s1RRJhC79K5A5T-IqHPGBWDLJT7x05GyjHcChP37I

Ambulance: Episode #82

• 100 Years Ago: Ambulance | @02:15

Long before the United States entered the war, the American Hospital of Paris and the American Field Service provided invaluable medical assistance to France. Nicole Milano, head archivist and historical publications editor for American Field Service Intercultural Programs, joins the show to discuss the contributions of the AFS in WW1.

https://www.american-hospital.org/en/american-hospital-of-paris/about-us/our-history.html

https://french.columbia.edu/events/american-paris-true-story-american-hospital-paris

http://www.ourstory.info/

http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/memoir/AFShist/AFS1a.htm

https://afs.org/2017/08/21/a-new-exhibition-honors-afs-volunteer-efforts-during-wwi/

https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2015/07/14/afs-and-american-volunteerism-in-world-war-i/  

In an exceptionally fierce phase of combat, the Americans and the French decisively repel the Germans and extinguish the threat to Paris.

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/07/22/intimate-pictures-of-war-in-the-trenches/

In the intense fighting for Croix Rouge (Red Cross) Farm, the U.S. 42nd “Rainbow” Division proves its mettle, and a young Douglas MacArthur is rewarded with a promotion.  

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

http://www.edwardlengel.com/enter-douglas-macarthur-the-rainbow-division-at-croix-rouge-farm-1918/

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

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

We’re thrilled to announce that a U.S. Postal Service Stamp to honor WW1 veterans is now available! Rebekah Wilson, a former Commission staffer, joins to us to share the story of how the Stamp came to be.

https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2018/pr18_ma042.htm

https://store.usps.com/store/product/buy-stamps/wwi-turning-the-tide-S_477404

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV3js_2YYfk 

The World War I Maquette, the 1/6th scale model of the National Memorial to be built in Pershing Park, will be featured in an upcoming WW1 event, “Over Here”, in Grass Lake, Michigan.

www.ww1cc.org/memorial

https://www.facebook.com/events/1670421929715475/

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/michigan-in-ww1-events/eventdetail/51369/over-here-a-michigan-world-war-1-centennial-event.html

Author Andrew Capet joins the show to discuss his new WW1 book: Good War, Great Men.

https://www.amazon.com/Good-War-Great-Men-Battalion/dp/0692116478/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

http://www.kean.edu/libertyhall/events/wwilecture-sept27

https://313thmachinegun.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/313mgbn/

Kathleen C. Wyatt, the Administrator and Secretary of the Greater Cape May Historical Society, and Harry Bellangy, President and Historian of the Society, come on the show discuss World War I commemoration in Cape May, New Jersey.  

www.ww1cc.org/100cities

This week, Speaking WW1 and WW1 Tech share the same topic: the Ambulance.  

http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/HistoryofUSArmyMSC/chapter2.html  

http://www.vlib.us/medical/ambulnce/ambulnce.htm  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_mv__ap4yE&feature=youtu.be  (start around 2 minutes)

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/public_health/World-War-I-debut-of-the-motorized-ambulance.html  

http://www.trauma.org/archive/history/prehospital.html#larrey01  

https://books.google.com/books?id=LFSVxO98ugAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false  

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/07/pull-over-its-an-emergency-world-war-i-ambulance-drivers/  

This week’s Dispatch Newsletter headlines: the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge joins our Bells of Peace initiative, the story of Harry Truman in WW1, the USS San Diego, F. Scott Fitzgerald on the WWrite Blog, and the latest Story of Service installment.  

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

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

Katherine Akey highlights our recent social media activity, including a Verdun 16 story about American cemeteries and the repatriation of fallen American troops after the war, and a video on Facebook about American Ace Eddie Rickenbacker from PBS.

https://verdun1916.eu/?p=7073

https://www.facebook.com/AmericanExperiencePBS/videos/10156582873049122

• 100 Years Ago: From state militias to a huge standing army | @02:15

This week, we take stock of the American military’s rapid transformation from a state-based, decentralized system, to the massive national war machine that helps defeat the German empire.

https://www.sunypress.edu/pdf/61348.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/07/10/96254109.pdf

https://books.google.com/books?id=sNYc6alAb4IC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=%22militia+act+of+1903%22+national+guard+federalized+funding&source=bl&ots=H5vIX8Y5os&sig=c60BYCbirq2hanPz00nMTtzvGjA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rybUUZiVFrTJ0gGZ1YHwDg&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=%22militia%20act%20of%201903%22%20national%20guard%20federalized%20funding&f=false

The Allies pioneer a new method of gas warfare, resulting in “a threatening cloud… as we had never before witnessed.”

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/07/15/a-new-method-of-gas-warfare/

The U.S. First and Second divisions participate in a major assault against the Germans, aiming to capture the high ground south of Soissons.

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

http://www.edwardlengel.com/battle-of-soissons-1st-and-2nd-divisions-july-18-1918/

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

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

www.ww1cc.org/memorial

Drew Ulrich, the Curator of the Delta Cultural Center in Arkansas, joins us to discuss a new exhibit honoring the men and women of Arkansas who served in the Great War.

http://www.deltaculturalcenter.com/exhibits/over-here-and-there

Corine Reis, a public historian from France, makes her second appearance on the show to discuss her magnificent World War I Blog: Waldo Peirce Goes to War.

https://waldopeircegoestowar.tumblr.com/

City of Yuma (Arizona) Mayor Douglas J. Nicholls and Yuma County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director John Courtis join the show to talk about their city’s Armed Forces Memorial Park.   

www.ww1cc.org/100cities

This week on Speaking WW1, our word is “snapshot”, which describes the quick action of firing a gun from a trench or taking a photo.

https://www.amazon.com/Tommy-Doughboy-Fritz-Soldier-Slang/dp/144563

7839/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508848013&sr=8-1&keywords=tommy+doughboy+fritz

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

https://books.google.com/books?id=e1uOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=snapshot+word+origin&source=bl&ots=lbRMBtv72g&sig=0z6RxsEwfHGJrS79B1ivAL5GoKI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs3Nijnr7XAhWH0iYKHcyvC-M4ChDoAQgoMAA#v=onepage&q=snapshot%20word%20origin&f=false

For WW1 Tech, we examine the various ways that photography impacted the Great War, from aerial reconnaissance to the U.S. Signal Corps to personal cameras on the front.  

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

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/photos-world-war-i-images-museums-battle-great-war/

https://rememberingwwi.villanova.edu/photography/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-first-world-war/part-eight/10742060/aerial-photography-world-war-one.html

http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/memoryofwar/staged-photography-and-photography-as-a-stage/

https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/world-war-i-in-photos/

The headlines for this week’s dispatch newsletter: a bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill to honor the “Hello Girls”, pilot and actor “Wild Bill”, a story about Native American veterans, and featured Doughboy Corporal Edward Graham. Also, check out our official merchandise, including the Navy Blue Doughboy polo shirt!

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

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

Katherine Akey highlights our recent social media activity, including a video on Facebook from the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Be sure to engage with the Commission on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and check out our podcast-specific twitter account! Links below:  

https://www.facebook.com/USMCMuseum/videos/10155904338792880

https://www.facebook.com/ww1centennial/

https://www.instagram.com/ww1cc/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/WW1CC

https://twitter.com/theww1podcast