pagesofhistory The Great War
To commemorate the World War I centennial next year, the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission has several projects in the works to “teach Americans about the country’s most forgotten war.”
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he 100th anniversary of the end of World War I will take place in 2018, and the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission is hard at work promoting an eclectic array of educational and commemorative projects in advance of that historic event, reports Chris Isleib, the commission’s director of public affairs. The commission’s most important proj- ect will be establishing the National World War I Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. But many more proj- ects are in the works, including partner- ships with A&E Network and History, the American Legion, and other entities to develop programs intended to educate more than 10 million U.S. middle school and high school students.
Scheduled activities of note include:
The American Battle Monuments Com- mission will prepare several exhibits, which will travel to U.S. World War I cem- eteries and other locations in Europe, on aspects of U.S. involvement in World War I. The World War One Centennial Com- mission will partner with the U.S. Mint to create a commemorative coin and partner medals for each uniformed service. The exhibit How American Artists Viewed the War will be on display at the Library of Congress through 2018. Several state historical museums will feature exhibits specific to World War I, such as war-era posters from the Pennsyl- vania State Archives at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.
PHOTO: EVERETT HISTORICAL
To learn more about future scheduled events, visit www.worl dwar1centenni
al.org.
The Last Raider eventy- five years ago this
month, 16 Mitch- ell B-25 bombers launched from the deck of USS Hornet (CV-8) on a mission to bomb Japanese targets in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, four months earlier. The mission later became known as the Doolittle Raid. Only one of the 80 U.S. servicemem- bers who took part in the raid is alive today: Richard E. Cole, now 101 and a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, who, as a young lieutenant, served as Lt. Col. James Harold “Jimmy” Doolittle’s copilot. According to a 2016 interview with CNN, Cole said: “We were the first plane. I re- member ... hoping that we had done every- thing that we needed ... to make the takeoff.” Cole became the last remaining Doo- little Raider upon the death of 94-year- old Army Air Forces Cpl. David J. Thatcher on June 22, 2016.
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U.S. service- members fire a French artillery trench cannon in Dieffmatten, Germany, June 26, 1918.
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— Don Vaughan, a North Carolina-based free- lance writer, authors this monthly column.
APRIL 2017 MILITARY OFFICER 79
History Lesson On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes began their famous midnight ride from Boston to Lexing- ton, Mass., warning town leaders and alerting the mi- litia that the British military was advancing from Boston.
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