Tuesday, October 28, 2008

WWI at Ft Lee

There will be a presentation on WWI at Ft Lee on Nov 11th. I will offer extra credit if anyone wishes to go and report on it. See info attached:

Training Trench Tour: 1. Amy Wood, FT Lee, Archeological office

WWI Demonstration in miniatures:

1. Joe Brimer, USAF Ret, Military Historian: Trench Warfare 1914-19182. John Wright, USAF Ret, USAF Historian: Aerial Warfare 1914-1918WWI Living History Interpreters-

Displays:

1. "Gunny" Phil Gibbons, WWI USA Quartermaster NCO
2. Charles Bonnell, WWI USA Officer
3. Andrea Wilson, WWI Red Cross Worker
4. Rick Potter, USA Pilot, Lafayette Escadrille
5. Joy DeMatteis, Salvation Army worker
6. Brian Petruskie, US Cav soldier

Guest Lecturers and Programs:
1. Dr. Steve Anders, OQMS, Lecture History of FT Lee 1917-1919
2. Prof. Ed Lengel, UVA, Author, Lecture on his book about Meuse-Argonne 1918
3. Prof. Malcolm Muir, VMI, Lecture on US navy in WWI
4. Prof Rockenbach, VSU, Lecture on "The Military Melting Pot: Race and Ethnicity in the A.E.F."
5. Francoise Bonnell, USAWM Ed Spec, Lecture on Women in WWI
6. Prof Thomas Barnes, UC Berkley, Lecture on no subject provided yet
7. Prof Paul Alkebulan, VSU, Lecture on "Black Americans on the Home Front

Veteran Celebration:

1. COL Gwen Bingham, CASCOM

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