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U.S. soldiers joined rehearsals this week for the Bastille Day parade on July 14, where they and president Donald J. Trump will be participating in the ceremonies to observe the 100 anniversary of the arrival of U.S. forces in France in World War I. The troops included members of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division, which was founded in 1917, the same year that the United States entered World War One. The President will be attending the day's festivities at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron. Read more about Friday's activities in Paris here.
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Veterans History Project launches Part Two of web series on WWI Veterans
The Veterans History Project (VHP) has launched “Over There,” the second in a three-part, online “Experiencing War” website series dedicated to United States veterans of the First World War. “Over There” highlights 10 digitized World War I collections found in the Veterans History Project archive. This series is being presented as a companion site to the Library of Congress exhibit, “Echoes of the Great War.” Each veteran’s first-person narrative is shared through their original photographs, letters, diaries, memoirs, maps and other materials. Congress created the VHP in 2000 to make accessible the firsthand remembrances of America’s veterans from WWI through the more recent conflicts. Read more about the new VHP WWI series here.
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Norman Prince of the Lafayette Escadrille was recently honored at a dedication ceremony in Gerardmer, France. The ceremony took place at the Hôtel de la Poste, which was a military hospital during WWI. Retired French Lt. General Daniel Bastien delivered an address at the event to an audience composed of local historians, specialists in the Great War, military aviation researchers, and members of Legion of Honor associates and Medaille Militaire, both medals Prince had been awarded. Read more about the ceremony here.
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There is a great new World War I exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. It is called "Posters and Patriotism", and it explores the effort that the U.S. government made to communicate the war, and to recruit people to join. When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, hundreds of New York City's artists and illustrators were enlisted in the war effort. Many of them worked for the federal government’s new Division of Pictorial Publicity. Posters and Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York examines the outpouring of posters, flyers, magazine art, sheet music covers, and other mass-produced images created by these New Yorkers to stir the American public to wartime loyalty, duty, and sacrifice. Donald Albrecht is the curator of the exhibition, and he took some time to tell us about it.
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The WW1 Centennial News Podcast is about WW1 THEN: 100 years ago this week and its about WW1 NOW: News and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.
Available on our web site, iTunes, Google Play, and TuneIn.
Highlight of Episode #27 include:
- History: Pershing’s 4th of July 1917 |@ 01:30
- History: Race riots in East St. Louis |@ 03:45
- Feature: US Official Bulletin - Logistics |@ 06 :00
- Guest: Joe Johnson, Logistics Expert: Defense Acquisition University |@ 10:30
- Guest: Mike Shuster, Espionage Act attack on bill of rights |@ 15:50
- News: President Donald Trump heading to Paris for WW1 Franco/US commemoration parade |@ 20:30
- Event: Commissioner O’Connell “Feeding The Fight” with WWI culinary event in NYC |@ 22:00
- Guest: Ellouise Schoettler “Ready to Serve” - one woman show about WWI Nurses |@ 23:15
- States: Texas exhibit: “From Cowboy to Doughboy” & Jim Hodgson article |@ 29:15
- International: London mail tunnels reopen as museum attraction |@ 30:10
- Feature: 16-year-old teenage girl flies 100-year-old Jenny |@ 31:20
- WWrite Blog: New post flips on convention with writer exploring redeeming qualities of combat violence!? |@ 34:00
And much more…
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Pfaender cup on loan for WWI exhibit
A rare artifact is being loaned to the Brown County Historical Society (BCHS) Museum in New Ulm, Minnesota for its World War I exhibit. Jay Pfaender, great-grandson of one of New Ulm’s founders, William Pfaender, has loaned a loving cup awarded to his grandfather Major Albert Pfaender. The cup’s inscription reads: “Presented to Major Albert Pfaender by the officers and men of the First Battalion, Second Regiment Infantry, on the occasion of their muster out of federal service, Jan. 24, 1917 in token of their high esteem and appreciation of his kind and efficient leadership during their term of duty on the Mexican border.” Read more about this unique artifact here.
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A Story of Service from the Stories of Service section of ww1cc.org
Submitted by: Marilyn Konruff {granddaughter}
Cleve O. Sherrod served in World War 1 with the United States Army . The dates of service are: Known December 17, 1917-June 8, 1919.
On June 5, 1917, two weeks before his wedding, 29-year-old Cleve Sherrod filled out a Civilian Draft Registration card in Kilbourn, Wisconsin. He had tried to enlist in the U. S. Army before, but had been rejected due to height requirements (he was only 5’3”). Cleve married Florence Wagner of St. Louis, Missouri, on June 26th. They honeymooned in Chicago before returning to Kilbourn, Wisconsin, where Cleve was employed by the railroad.
Enlistment restrictions were suddenly lifted when the United States officially entered the war in France, so on December 14th, Cleve was able to enlist as a Private in the U. S. Army, 33rd Division, and dispatched to Camp Logan, Texas, for training. The 33rd Division, commanded by Major General George Bell, Jr., was composed of National Guard units from Illinois, prompting the name “Prairie” Division. As an electrician, Cleve was attached to the 108th Engineers, Company D under Col. Henry Allen.
Disembarking from a troop train at Camp Logan, Cleve Sherrod found a hastily built tent city. He slept on a cot in a cramped tent with eight others and was subjected to hot days, dust, mosquitoes, cold nights, disease, fatigue and hard days of physical activity and living outdoors. A typical day was about seven hours long and consisted of physical readiness exercises, marching drills, rifle maintenance and marksmanship, bayonet drills, and battlefield signaling. This short of stature, older Private kept up with the young ones!
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