October 1918 & The Lost Battalion - Ep.#144

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----more----

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