WW1 Centennial News for October 5, 2018 - Episode #92
German Avian Intelligence - Pigeons started to go high-tech in WWI
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Highlights: October 1918 Overview
Host: Theo Mayer
- October 1918 Overview Roundtable - Dr.Edward Lengel & Katherine Akey | @03:55
- Historians Corner: Lost Battalion - Ron Laplander | @20:00
- Shifting sands and hard fighting - Mike Shuster | @26:40
- Commission News: Honor & Remember in Chicago - Host | @31:24
- Commission News: Bells of Peace update - Host | @32:15
- State Profile: Georgia - Dr. Tom Jackson | @33:40
- Remembering Veterans: Story of John Foster - Mark Foster | @41:10
- US Army CMH WWI Website - Dr. Erik Villard | @47:20
- Spotlight On The Media 1: Dr. Edward Lengel | @52:40
- Spotlight On The Media 2: Lost Battalion Documentary - Mark Fastoso & John King | @55:20
- WWI War Tech: Pigeons - Host | @60:00
- Articles & Posts: Weekly Dispatch - Host | @65:05
- The Buzz: Selections from Social Media - Katherine Akey | @67:45
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PODCAST NOTES: Guest links and our research
World War One Then
Historian Corner with Rob Laplander
https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Lost-Battalion-Legends-Americas/dp/1411676564
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/doughboy-mia-home.html
Great War Project
http://greatwarproject.org/2018/09/30/generals-to-the-kaiser-the-war-cannot-go-on/
World War One Now
Commission News
http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/events/special-events/wwicc-honor-and-remember/
Itunes app install link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bells-of-peace-wwi-armistice/id1436351331?ls=1&mt=8
Android app install link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ww1cc.bells
Updates from the States
Remembering Veterans
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/commemorate/family-ties/stories-of-service.html
https://www.amazon.com/World-Genealogy-Research-Guide-Non-Combatant/dp/1980916845
https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/wwi/prologue/default/index.html
https://history.army.mil/index.html
https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/collect/wwi-cb.html
Spotlight in the Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF7a-370JeE
https://www.c-span.org/video/?450879-1/the-lost-battalion
http://www.echofilmsproductions.com/the-lost-battalion.html
WW1 War Tech
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/closing-the-pigeon-gap-68103438/
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/style/the-hallowed-history-of-the-carrier-pigeon.html
https://www.pigeoncontrolresourcecentre.org/html/about-pigeons.html
http://www.andrewblechman.com/pigeons/cool_facts.html
http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=10
Articles and Posts
http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/subscribe.html
The Buzz
https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/wwi/infantry/27thInfDiv/27thInfDivMain.htm
https://www.1418now.org.uk/commissions/new-film-peter-jackson/
Sponsors:
The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library
The Starr Foundation
Production:
Producer & Host: Theo Mayer
Line Producer: Katherine Akey
Interview editing: Mac Nelsen and Tim Crowe
Research: JL Michaud
Intern: Rachel Hurt
SUBSCRIPTIONS
WW1 Centennial News Video Podcast on iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ww1-centennial-news/id1209764611?mt=2
Weekly Dispatch Newsletter
http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/subscribe.htm
