Summary: <br> Highlights<br> <br> <br> 1917 - President Wilson sets up Public Information Office to sell war to America | @ 00:45<br> <br> <br> Event - In Flanders Field event in Washington DC this month | @ 08:30<br> <br> <br> States - California website goes live | @ 10:35<br> <br> <br> Article - US Coast Guard in WW1 interview | @ 12:50<br> <br> <br> WWrite Blog - Post by James Moad | @ 14:10<br> <br> <br> Media - Special magazine pubs for Time and The Atlantic | @ 14:45<br> <br> <br> Much more...<br> <br> <br> <br> WW1 Centennial News - Weekly Podcast<br> World War One Centennial News: <br> April 19, 2017<br> Opening<br> Welcome to World War One Centennial News. It’s about WW1 news 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.<br> WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. <br> Today is April 19th, 2017 and I’m Theo Mayer - Chief Technologist for the World War One Centennial Commission and your host today.<br> World War One THEN <br> 100 Year Ago This Week<br> The war with Germany is approved by a wide margin in Congress. But it is still unclear, how much support it has among the American people. <br> So - On April 13, by executive order, President Wilson creates the Committee on Public Information. This new, powerful committee is headed by a guy named George Creel, a newspaperman who is a long-standing ally of Wilson’s - ya gotta love history!!! The committee also has representatives from the State, War, and Navy departments. <br> Their mission is to write news items, create pamphlets and posters and even publish their own newspaper. They send out 75,000 speakers across the country to promote the war effort. <br> Put bluntly, the government fires up a propaganda ministry to support the war agenda. <br> Check out the full story and see what the new - 1917 committee on public information is all about! <br> Link: <a href="http://today-in-wwi.tumblr.com/post/159546485618/wilson-creates-committee-on-public-information">http://today-in-wwi.tumblr.com/post/159546485618/wilson-creates-committee-on-public-information</a><br> <br> <br> Great War Project<br> Looking at what is going on in Europe, we are bringing in Mike shuster, former NPR correspondent and curator of the great war project blog. So Mike - things worked well - originally - for the Canadians and the Brits in the Vimy Ridge campaign, but new fighting tactics and new tank technologies fail, and a lot of good men lose their lives for very little gain as things go on - Tell us the story please.<br> LINK:<br> <a href="http://www.greatwarproject.org/">www.greatwarproject.org/</a><br> War in the Sky <br> It is the middle of Bloody April - in great war in the sky 100 years ago this week.<br> I have found it interesting and perhaps a bit disturbing that the language about these these early days of aviation sometimes sound like some sort of sports adventure game, ---- but the life and death struggles in the sky were very real. Though the references may speak of scoring wins, these are, in fact, duels to the death.<br> The charisma of these escapades are fully exploited by the propaganda machines of each side, using the technology of aviation to crown new champions, aces and heroes.<br> In one such reference, on April 11, 2017 Baron Von Richthoven scores and is lauded for his 41st “Kill" surpassing his mentor - Boelke's record of 40. <br> On April 16th, French General Nivelle launches a major offensive south of the Somme, --called the battle of the Aisne - which is stopped by the germans. In an attempt to assist, Britain’s Royal Flying Corps cranks up a really high sortie rate, resulting in very high losses ---- meanwhile on the ground, the extreme high French troop casualties bring on a French Army mutiny. This is a war weary time
