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
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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
 
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“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
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/2747-ww1-centennial-news-episode-27-7-05-2017.html
 
World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 62
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4179-ww1-centennial-news-episode-62-03-09-2018.html
 
World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode  82
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4838-ww1-centennial-news-episode-82-7-27-2018.html
 
World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 34
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3043-ww1-centennial-news-episode-34-8-23-2017.html
 
World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 68
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4369-ww1-centennial-news-episode-68-04-20-2018.html
 
World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 69
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/4385-ww1-centennial-news-episode-69-04-27-2018.html
 
World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 54
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3949-ww1-centennial-news-episode-54-01-12-2018.html
 
World War I Centennial Commission Podcast, Episode 115
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/6077-ww1-centennial-news-episode-115-03-22-19.html
 
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