FOCUS ON: Non-Combatants of WWI - Ep.#139

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 ----more---- 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 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