Summary: <br> Highlights<br> <br> Guest - Mike Shuster - President Wilson’s response to Germany’s U-Boat campaign<br> <br> <br> Announcement - Commissioner John “Jack” D. Monahan sworn in<br> <br> <br> Guest - Philip Sneed, chair of the Colorado WW1 Centennial steering committee<br> <br> <br> Post - 100C/100M WW1 memorial restoration project on Governors Island in New York<br> <br> <br> Article - Commissioner Monique Seefried on the April 6th significance<br> <br> <br> Article - Robert Laplander 3rd edition of book “Finding the Lost Battalion” and “Doughboy MIA” site<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> WW1 Centennial News - Weekly Video Podcast<br> <br> World War One Centennial News: <br> March 1st 2017<br> <br> World War One THEN <br> 100 Year Ago This Week <br> British Expeditionary Force to Carry Out French Orders<br> After months of ongoing carnage at the Somme, Prime Minister Lloyd George had become dissatisfied with Douglas Haig’s performance. He was, however, impressed by the French commander, General Nivelle, who promised to break through the German lines with a swift offensive. On February 27th, George proposed that all Allied armies in France be placed under Neville's command. Follow the link in the chatroom to find out how the British generals reacted. <br> Link: <a href="http://today-in-wwi.tumblr.com/post/157795523243/british-expeditionary-force-to-carry-out-french">http://today-in-wwi.tumblr.com/post/157795523243/british-expeditionary-force-to-carry-out-french</a><br> Great War Project<br> But the big story this week 100 years ago is President Wilson’s response to Germany’s U-Boat campaign. And this is the story of Mike Shuster’s post this week. Welcome Mike.<br> LINK: <a href="http://www.greatwarproject.org/">www.greatwarproject.org/</a><br> War in the Sky <br> One hundred year ago this week the story of the Great War In The Sky involves Navy Lt. Kenneth Whitting. It was this week 100 years ago that he proposed to United States Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels that the Navy acquire a ship with an aircraft catapult and a flight deck, prompting the first serious U.S. Navy consideration of such an acquisition. Whitting was a visionary who had started even a year prior in 1916, to campaign for the U.S. Navy development of what were then called "plane carriers".<br> He was always a visionary - who started his naval career as a pioneer in submarines - but in 1914 his request to become an aviator was granted and he reported to the Wright Company in Dayton Ohio to learn to fly. In fact he was the last naval officer to take flight training from Orville Wright personally. <br> Alright so in March he proposed the first sort-of aircraft carrier, in April American declares war, in May Whitting is selected to command the 1st Naval Air Unit. He, seven officers and 122 enlisted men board ships to cross the Atlantic to France becoming the first officers and men of the regular fighting forces of the United States to land in France...<br> As reported on June 8 in the OFFICIAL BULLETIN - Published Daily under order of the President by the committee for public information (the official US war bulletin)<br> What about that carrier proposal?<br> Well - 2 weeks after he and his men arrive in France the Navy rejected the idea - and Whitting had to wait until 1922 when he was made commanding officer of the US's first actual aircraft carrier the CV-1 USN Langley. But that quest began 100 years ago this week for the Great War in The sky.<br> <br> LINK:<br> <a href="http://ww1cc.org/warinthesky">http://ww1cc.org/warinthesky</a><br> <br> <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6UfmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=United+States+Navy+Lt+Kenneth+Whiting&source=bl&ots=69ZbLKo_LI&sig=KqoJz_lVkRIiRyrOxRyOaTJUWS0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEnsf5xLTSAhWCRCYKHaNBAAwQ6AEIWTAO#v=onepage&q=United%20States%20Navy%20Lt%20Kenneth%20Whiting&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?</a>
