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

Fort Mifflin
Fort Mifflin

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

Our Colonial Tour Guide
Our Tour Guide

Weapons Demonstration
Weapons Demonstration


WFA 2008 National Seminar



2008 WFA 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

Colonel Robert Dalessandro Michael Knapp

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 Ford

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

Stephen Harris

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”

Jay Graybeal

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

Chris Semancik

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

Dr. Doug Johnson

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


Dr. Mitch Yockelson

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

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

Tomlinson Book Prize

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

Dane Coffman as General Pershing

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

WFA President Doran Cart

New WFA President, Doran Cart
National World War One Museum

Program Coordinator, Louise Arnold-Friend

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
Pantheon de la Guerre


"Forts of the Meuse"
by Clayton Donnell

Fort Loncin, Liege, Belgium
Fort Loncin
"Reactions to Catastrophe: French Intellectuals and the Great War"
by Paul Gery

Georges Sorel
"Enemy in All Directions: The True Story of the Lost Battalion"
by Robert Laplander

Maj. Whittlesey and Maj. McKinney
Major Charles Whittlesey and Major Charles McKinney

Link for Robert Laplander's Book

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




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