WW1 Centennial News: Airplanes To End The War

August 24, 2018 – Episode #86

Observation balloons had parachutes attached to the outside of the baskets

Highlights

• Airplanes to end the war? Some say. | @ 02:05
• Continued war just out of habit? – Mike Shuster | @ 13:10
• Part 3: The 28th Division in Fismette – Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 17:00
• The American Legion and ACE – US WWI Commissioner Jack Monahan | @ 24:40
• Video Game “11-11 Memories Retold” – Yoan Fanise | @ 30:00
• 19-year-old twin WWI reenactors – Seth & Garrett Moore | @ 37:45
• WW1 War Tech: Observation Balloons | @ 43:45
• Speaking WWI: Balloonatic | @ 47:00
• Articles & Posts: From the Dispatch Newsletter | @ 48:05
• The Buzz: Social Media Highlights – Katherine Akey | @ 50:45

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PODCAST NOTES: Guest links and our research

World War One Then

100 Years Ago

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/26/97021408.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/27/97021702.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/28/97022080.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/28/97022172.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/29/97022393.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/08/30/97022850.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/01/97023380.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/01/97023386.pdf

http://centenaire.org/en/autour-de-la-grande-guerre/aviation/history-us-air-service-world-war-i

http://www.theaerodrome.com/services/usa/index.php

Great War Project

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/08/19/planning-the-war-of-1919/

America Emerges: Military Stories from WW1

http://www.edwardlengel.com/fiery-finale-doughboys-battle-to-the-death-at-fismette-1918/

https://www.facebook.com/EdwardLengelAuthor/

http://www.edwardlengel.com/about/

World War One Now

Commission News

https://www.legion.org/convention

http://ww1cc.org/YourAce

Spotlight on the Media

https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/memories-retold-elijah-wood-1202834748/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cYeBO8zwc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sP6BYe2LE4

https://www.vg247.com/2018/04/25/11-11-memories-retold-is-a-new-story-driven-game-set-during-first-world-war/

Remembering Veterans

http://doughboyduo.com

WW1 War Tech

https://www.engr.ncsu.edu/news/2017/05/26/above-the-battlefields-of-world-war-i/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation_balloon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_military_ballooning#World_War_I

https://mashable.com/2016/03/02/wwi-balloons/#nGRfpJmxX8qR

Speaking WW1

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/04/world-war-i-in-photos-aerial-warfare/507326/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3087941?mag=doughboy-slang&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/balloon43.htm

Articles and Posts

http://www.ww1cc.org/dispatch

http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/subscribe.html

The Buzz

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/announcements/lff-62-peter-jacksons-they-shall-not-grow-old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ePxpbDmykD4

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/05/28/608455970/in-russia-scant-traces-and-negative-memories-of-a-century-old-u-s-intervention?t=1534495208000

SUBSCRIPTIONS

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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