October 1918 & The Lost Battalion
Episode #144
Host: Theo Mayer
October 1918 Overview Roundtable - Dr. Edward Lengel & Katherine Akey | @02:15
Historians Corner: Lost Battalion - Ron Laplander | @18:25
Shifting sands and hard fighting - Mike Shuster | @25:10
Remembering Veterans: Story of John Foster - Mark Foster | @29:40
US Army CMH WWI Website - Dr. Erik Villard | @35:00
Spotlight On The Media 1: Dr. Edward Lengel | @40:15
Spotlight On The Media 2: Lost Battalion Documentary - Mark Fastoso & John King | @42:50
World War One Then
October 1918 Roundtable: Dr. Edward Lengel, Katherine Akey, Host
Historian Corner with Rob Laplander
https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Lost-Battalion-Legends-Americas/dp/1411676564
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/doughboy-mia-home.html
World War One Now
Remembering Veterans
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/commemorate/family-ties/stories-of-service/4382-john-chester-foster.html
https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/commemorate/family-ties/stories-of-service.html
http://ww1cc.org/guide
https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/wwi/prologue/default/index.html
https://history.army.mil/index.html
https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/collect/wwi-cb.html
Spotlight in the Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF7a-370JeE
https://www.c-span.org/video/?450879-1/the-lost-battalion
http://www.echofilmsproductions.com/the-lost-battalion.html
Guests:
Dr. Edward Lengel, Military historian and author
Rob Laplander, Author, citizen historian and the driving force behind the Doughboy MIA project
Mike Shuster, Curator for the great war project blog
Dr. Tom Jackson, Executive Director of the Georgia WW1 Centennial Commission
Mark Foster, grandson of WW1 Veteran John Foster
Dr. Erik Villard, Digital Historian at the Center for Military History
Mark Fastoso and John King, two of the Producers of the new documentary titled The Lost Battalion
Katherine Akey, WWI Photography specialist and line producer for the podcast
Sponsors:
The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library
The Starr Foundation
Production:
Producer & Host: Theo Mayer
Line Producer: Katherine Akey
Interview editing: Mac Nelsen and Tim Crowe
Research: JL Michaud
Intern: Rachel Hurt
