Highlights
Ambulance: Episode #82
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://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/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.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1670421929715475/
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.
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.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://www.facebook.com/AmericanExperiencePBS/videos/10156582873049122
