WWI Memorial Virtual Explorer
Developed and created by:
The Doughboy Foundation
Keeping Faith with the American Doughboy
Made possible by:
Walmart
Development Team:
Executive Producer: Daniel S. Dayton, Chairman, The Doughboy Foundation
Producer/Director: Theo Mayer
Creative & VFX Director: Andranik Aslanyan
Project Manager: Kathy Abbott-Mayer
Project Historian: Dr. Edward Lengel
Production Company:
TechApplication.com, LLC
Production Studio:
Code Headquarters, LLC
Creative Lead: Vin Rah, CG
Associate Programmer: Jonathan Villegas
Concept Artist: Nicole B. Aslanyan
UI/UX Designer: Paola Ascanio
Web Backend Developer:Jasmine Hunter
Concept Artist: Aleksandr Danilov
Writers:
Edward G. Lengel, PhD.
Theo Mayer
Audio Production:
Sound Design: Peter Bergren
Narration: Daniel S. Dayton, Theo Mayer
Character Voices: Robert Walter
Special Thanks:
OxBlue Construction Timelapse
"How WWI Changed America” Video Series Made Possible By:
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Produced by:
The United States World War One Centennial Commission
The Doughboy Foundation
In Association With:
The National WWI Museum and Memorial
National History Day
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Executive Producer: Dr. Libby O’Connell, Chief Historian Emeritus, History/A+E Networks
Project Director: Jennifer Zoebelein, PhD.
Technical Producer: Barbara Maranzani
Education Coordinator: James Taub
Chief of Staff: Dale Archer
Director/Producer: Kathleen Williams
Producer/Editor/Colorist: Rosie Nakamura
Director of Photography: Bryan TWZ Brousseau
Podcast and Segmentation Editor for APP: Mac Nelson
Historian Advisors:
Commissioner Dr. Libby O'Connell, Chief Historian Emeritus, History/A+E Networks
Christopher Capozzola, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jennifer D. Keene, Ph.D., Chapman University
John H. Morrow Jr ., Ph.D., University of Georgia
Jeffrey T. Sammons, Ph.D., New York University
Herman J. Viola, Ph.D., Curator Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution
360° Photosphere Imagery of Flanders Field American Cemetery:
American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
National Park Service
Remembering the Doughboy Film:
Loma Media
Narrator: Gary Sinise
Imagery:
National Archives and other public domain sources
We want to thank the following people and organizations for their invaluable contribution
and support of the National WWI Memorial in Washington, DC:
The Doughboy Foundation Board Members
Mr. Daniel S. Dayton, Chair
Mr. Phil Mazzara, President
Mr. Dan Basta
Amb. Jeffrey Bleich, (Ret.)
CAPT Chris Christopher, (Ret.), Treasurer
Mr. Terry Hamby
Mr. Gary Lewi
Dr. John H. Morrow, Jr.
Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun (Ret.)
Dr. Libby O’Connell
Mr. Russell Orban
Ms. Sandra Sinclair Pershing
The Honorable Ted Poe
U.S. WWI Centennial Commission
Honorary Chairs
Former Presidents
President Jimmy Carter
President George H.W. Bush (1924-2018)
President William J. Clinton
President George W. Bush
President Barack H. Obama
Former Secretaries of State
Secretary George P. Shultz
Secretary Madeleine Albright
General Colin L. Powell
Former Secretaries of Defense
Secretary Robert M. Gates
Secretary Leon E. Panetta
Commissioners
Mr. Terry W. Hamby, Chair
Ms. Debra L. Anderson
Cmdr. Maria Zoe Dunning, USN (Ret.)
Mr. Jerry L. Hester
Colonel Thomas Moe, USAF (Ret.)
Mr. John A. Monahan
Dr. Matthew Naylor
Dr. Libby O’Connell
Ambassador Theodore Sedgwick (Ret.)
Monique Brouillet Seefried, Ph.D.
Major General Alfred Valenzuela, USA (Ret.)
Staff
Mr. Daniel S. Dayton, Executive Director
Ms. Meredith Carr, Deputy Director
Mr. Chris Christopher, Special Assistant
Mr. Halsey Hughes, Special Events Coordinator
Mr. Andrew McGreal, Program Manager
Special Advisors
Sergeant Major Bryan B. Battaglia, USMC (Ret.)
Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google
Col. Robert Dalessandro, USA (Ret.), Deputy Secretary, American Battle Monuments Commission
Commissioner Ray Kelly, Vice Chairman, K2 Intelligence and Former NYPD Commissioner
General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret.), News commentator and business consultant
Admiral Mike Mullen, USN (Ret.) Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
John Nau, President and Chief Executive Officer of Silver Eagle Distributors, L.P.
Helen Ayer Patton, Granddaughter of Gen. George S. Patton
Sandra Sinclair Pershing, Granddaughter-in-law of Gen. John J. Pershing
Theodore Roosevelt IV, Managing Director & Chairman of Barclays Cleantech Initiative
Howard Schultz, Co-Founder, Schultz Family Foundation
Sheri Schultz, President and Co-Founder, Schultz Family Foundation
Gary Sinise, Actor/Philanthropist
Joseph Suarez, Director of Community Partnerships for Booz Allen Hamilton
Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.), Operating Executive at the Carlyle Group
General Gordon Sullivan, USA (Ret.), President and CEO, AUSA
Senator John Warner, United States Senator (1979-2009)
Col. Gerald York, USA (Ret.) , Grandson of Sgt. Alvin C. York
Special Support Partner
American Battle Monuments Commission
Diplomatic Advisory Board
Governor James Blanchard
Ambassador Jeffrey L. Bleich, (Ret.)
Ambassador Timothy Broas, (Ret.)
Ambassador James P. Cain, (Ret.)
Ambassador Timothy Chorba, (Ret.)
Ambassador William Eacho, (Ret.)
Ambassador Laurie S. Fulton, (Ret.)
Ambassador Mark Gitenstein, (Ret.)
Ambassador James E. Goodby, (Ret.)
Ambassador Howard Gutman, (Ret.)
Ambassador Stuart Holliday, (Ret.)
Ambassador David Jacobson, (Ret.)
Ambassador Allen Katz, (Ret.)
Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, (Ret.)
Ambassador Howard H. Leach, (Ret.)
Mr. Gerald Loftus
Ambassador James G. Lowenstein, (Ret.)
Ambassador Gerald McGowan, (Ret.)
Ambassador Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, (Ret.)
Ambassador Louise Oliver, (Ret.)
Ambassador Penne Korth Peacock, (Ret.)
Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, (Ret.)
Ambassador Charles Rivkin, (Ret.)
Ambassador Paul Russo, (Ret.)
Ambassador Tod Sedgwick, (Ret.)
Ambassador Carl Spielvogel, (Ret.)
Ambassador Craig Roberts Stapleton, (Ret.)
Ambassador Ron Weiser, (Ret.)
Historical Advisory Board
Doran Cart
Mark Facknitz
John Maxwell Hamilton
Dr. Jennifer D. Keene
Edward G. Lengel, Ph.D.
Dr. Erin Mahan
Dr. John H. Morrow, Jr
Commissioner Dr. Libby O'Connell
Jeffrey Sammons, Ph.D.
Commissioner Monique Brouillet Seefried, Ph.D.
Dr. Steven Trout
Herman Viola, Ph.D
Mitch Yockelson, Ph.D
Susan Zeiger, Ph. D.
Communications Advisory Board
Ambassador Carl Spielvogel - Chair
Ralph Appelbaum
William F. Baker
Myron Kandel
Robert Lenz
WWI Memorial Design Team
National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
The United States World War One Centennial Commission
Joe Weishaar, AIA, Joe Weishaar Architects, WWI Memorial Lead Designer
Sabin Howard, Sabin Howard Sculpture, Sculptor, “A Soldier’s Journey” WWI Memorial Sculpture
GWWO Architects
DAVID RUBIN Land Collective
WWI Memorial Construction:
Grunley Construction Company, Inc.
WWI Memorial Sculpture Foundry:
Pangolin Editions Ltd.
WWI Centennial Commission Major Donors:
Pershing Society
The Pritzker Military Museum and Library [FOUNDING SPONSOR]
Lilly Endowment
Starr Foundation
Patton Society
Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
American Battle Monuments Commission
Lafayette Society
US Mint Coin Sales Surcharge
The Richard Lounsbery Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
FedEx
General Motors
NFL Foundation
The J. Willard and Alice Marriott Foundation
Walmart
Doughboy Society
Andrew Mellon Foundation
Huntington Ingalls Industries
SD Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
The Ambrose Monell Foundation
Robert R. McCormick Foundation
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
The American Legion
The Schultz Family Foundation
United Technologies Corporation
3M Company
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Mrs. Sandra Sinclair Pershing
Remembrance Poppy Society
Northrop Grumman
Coca-Cola Foundation
Liberty Memorial Association
Anonymous
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Government of France
Versailles 1919-2019
Daughters of the American Revolution
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Carson Family Charitable Trust
Liberty Bond Society
A&E Networks
Commissioner Monique Seefried and Mr. Ferdinand Seefried
Anonymous
The Edward John and Patricia Rosenwald Foundation
James B. Nutter
Carolyn N. and Terry W. Hamby
George Garretson Wade Charitable Trust
Solvay
Annenberg Foundation
The Louise H and David S Ingalls Foundation
Claude Moore Charitable Foundation
Dr. Mary Davidson
Commissioner Tod Sedgwick
Libby and Matt O'Connell
Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation
The Taber Foundation
Col. (USAF-Ret.) Thomas & Christine Moe
Mr. Edwin Fountain
James B Nutter & Co
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Comstock, Jr.
Kentucky Veterans Program Trust Fund