Talking 28th Division AEF with Aaron Heft
Join us for a great discussion with Aaron Heft, currently serving as a SFC in the Army National Guard. Aaron works as a unit historian with the Army National Guard's Leader Development program, where ...
1 Nov 202144min
Meuse Argonne - Breaking the Argonne
Efforts to relieve the Lost Battalion and break the German hold on the Argonne Forest led to an innovative attack devised by AEF 1st Corps commander LTG Hunter Liggett. The BFWWP is on Patreon: htt...
18 Okt 202140min
Meuse Argonne - The Lost Battalion, Pt 4: Resistance & Relief (featuring Robert J. Laplander)
With mounting hunger, wounds, and death, MAJ Whittlesey and his command continue to hold out in the Charlevaux Ravine. As Whittlesey has said, there will be no surrender. The only book you need to ...
21 Sep 20211h 11min
A Discussion on WW1 Aviation with Mike O'Neal
Recently I was invited to a Zoom discussion with some other WW1 enthusiasts to talk about what we can do to keep the memory of WW1 alive in these post-centenary times. At that talk was Mike O'Neal, a ...
8 Aug 20211h 38min
"A Moonlight Massacre:" an Interview with Dr. Michael LoCicero
The established narrative of the Third Battle of Ypres identifies the end of the muddy and blood-soaked struggle in Flanders with the capture of the Passchendaele village ruins in November 1917. Howev...
27 Jul 20211h 38min
Meuse Argonne - The Lost Battalion, Pt 3: Friendly Fire (featuring Robert J. Laplander)
Surrounded, with no food or medical supplies and dwindling ammunition, the American forces trapped in the Charlevaux Ravine face a new and unforeseen enemy: friendly fire. The only book you need to...
9 Jul 202134min
Meuse Argonne - The Lost Battalion, Pt 2: The First Day (featuring Robert J. Laplander)
Having established a perimeter on a steep hillside in the Charlevaux Ravine, a force of some 700 men under US MAJ Charles Whittlesey digs in to await reinforcements and further orders. Soon realizi...
21 Jun 202138min
Meuse Argonne - The Lost Battalion, Pt 1: Into the Charlevaux (featuring Robert J. Laplander)
On October 1st, 1918, fresh from being relieved from encirclement in the Small Pocket on l'Homme Mort, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 308th Infantry Regiment are ordered to attack into the Argonne ...
25 Mai 202139min
