WFA East Coast Chapter Spring Seminar
At
Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia, PA
9 May 2009

Fort Mifflin
Christopher George talks about his grandfather's service as A British 'Grunt' in the Great War: The Service of
Private George T. Matchett

Tim Mulligan speaks on World War I German Naval Records at the National
Archives: Access and Research Possibilities

Our Tour Guide
Weapons Demonstration
WFA 2008 National Seminar

OVER HERE AND OVER THERE: AMERICA’S GREAT WAR AND AMERICA’S GREAT WARRIORS
Western Front Association-U.S. Branch Annual National Seminar
U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center
12-14 September 2008
COL Robert J. Dalessandro [AHEC Director] & Mr. Michael G. Knapp [AHEC Collection Manager]
"Forging the Force: Organizing and Preparing the AEF for Overseas Duty"
Organization and Insignia of the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1923

Dr. Nancy Gentile Ford [Professor, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania] "Americans All! Foreign-Born Soldiers in WWI"
Americans All

Mr. Stephen L. Harris [Author/Historian] "Irish by Association, Irish by Adoption, Irish by Conviction: The Fighting 69th Changes Its Color From Green to Rainbow."
Stephen Harris Website
Dr. Marion Pinsdorff [Professor Emeritus, Fordham University] “War Morphed Hawaii’s Business: Hackfeld’s Into American Factors; Ehlers Into Liberty House”

Mr. Jay Graybeal [Army Heritage Museum Chief Curator] “’Us Sailors Never Reach France Cause!’: The U. S. Naval Reserve Flying Corps in France”

Mr. Christopher Semancik [AHEC Arms Curator] “Trenches, Tranches, Schützengraben”

Dr. Douglas V. Johnson [Professor, US Army War College] "Americans at the Battle of Soissons"
Doug Johnson Website
Soissons, 1918

Dr. Mitch Yockelson [National Archives and Records Administration] "Borrowed Soldiers: The Anglo-American Relationship in World War I”
See the Review for Mitch Yockelson's Book on Our "Great War Books and Reviews" Page

Dr. Ed Lengel [Professor, University of Virginia] "America's Experience in the Meuse-Argonne"
See the Review for Ed Lengel's book on our "Great War Books and Reviews" Page

Dr. Lengel Accepts the Tomlinson Book Prize For To Conquer Hell

Dane Coffman as General Pershing
A Ring,a Razor, and a Pipe

New WFA President, Doran Cart
National World War One Museum

Program Coordinator, Louise Arnold-Friend
Highlights from our spring 2008 seminar in Baltimore, Maryland
5 April 2008
"Pantheon de la Guerre: Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War"
by Mark Levitch
Pantheon de la Guerre
"Forts of the Meuse"
by Clayton Donnell
Fort Loncin
"Reactions to Catastrophe: French Intellectuals and the Great War"
by Paul Gery
"Enemy in All Directions: The True Story of the Lost Battalion"
by Robert Laplander
Reviews of and reactions to Mr. Laplander's book are welcome. See the discussion thread for Lost Battalion books below.
Click for Review
"The Original 'Flying Tigers': The Princeton Flying Corps in World War I" by Mike O'Neal