Summary: <h1>Highlights</h1><br> <p><strong>The US Army Signal Corps in WW1</strong></p><br> <ul> <li>The founding of the US Army Signal Corps @ |01:30</li> <br> <li>The Signal Corps in WW1 @ |04:25</li> <br> <li>War In The Sky - Signal Corps Connections @ |09:00</li> <br> <li>Alvin York’s crisis of conscience w/ Dr. Edward Lengel @ |13:30</li> <br> <li>Germany’s starts big push w/ Mike Shuster @ |20:25</li> <br> <li>Women in the AEF w/ Dr. Susan Zeiger @ |25:15</li> <br> <li>The Hello Girls w/ Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs @ |32:05</li> <br> <li>100C/100M in Worcester MA w/ Brian McCarthy @ |40:35</li> <br> <li>Speaking WW1 - Shody @ |46:15</li> <br> <li>Social Media Pick w/ Katherine Akey @ |48:15<a id="more-9235539"></a> </li> <br> </ul><h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opening</span></h1><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - episode #62 - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today is March 9th, 2018 and our guests for this week include:</span></p><br> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Edward Lengel, exploring Alvin York’s crisis of conscience as he entered the military</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mike Shuster, from the great war project blog with an update on German war activities in May</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Susan Zeiger telling us about the women workers of the American Expeditionary Forces</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs with the story of the Hello Girls</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brian McCarthy, sharing the 100 Cities/100 Memorials project in Worcester Massachusetts</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katherine Akey with the WW1 commemoration in social media</span></li> <br> </ul><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WW1 Centennial News -- a weekly podcast brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Starr foundation. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[MUSIC]</span></p><br> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Preface</span></h1><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week several stories came up that pointed to US Army Signal Corps. You know.. they’re not just the guys who made the movies and took the pictures… </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actually they have a heritage of being “New Tech” gurus - taking initial responsibility for classic ideas, later managed by other organizations including military intelligence, weather forecasting and especially aviation.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That because it all started with a visionary guy named Albert James Myer. Myer started as a Medical Officer in Texas before the civil war and ended up a brigadier general with the title of First Chief Signal Officer and a legacy as “The father of the US Army Signal Corps”</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Early on - Myer came up with a flag waving scheme to send messages during combat - which the Army adopted it in 1860 - one year before the start of the Civil War. It’s high falutin’ name was Aerial Telegraphy but, everyone called it WIG WAG. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the Civil War, WigWag was used on the battlefield to direct artillery fire-- and Myer started to experiment with balloons, electric telegraph and other kinds of new tech. </span></p><br> <p><span></span></p>
