WW1 Centennial News for September 09, 2019 - Episode #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

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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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