Look and Listen

Biography

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY David C. Homsher David Homsher, a veteran of U.S. Army service during the Korean War, and now retired, is a historian-author who has dedicated himself to perpetuating the memory of the American World War I “Doughboy” and the battlefields on which he fought. An avid researcher, he has made many trips to France, walking the battlefields, seeking out battle sites, and tracing the actions of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) units involved. David has spent many hours in research in the National Archives and other major libraries and has an extensive collection of books, diaries and articles about the “War to End all Wars.” None being available, he is writing a series of guidebooks to the World War I battlefields of the AEF in 1918. The first guidebook in the series, American Battlefields of World War I: Château-Thierry—Then and Now, was published in 2006. Homsher retired from his job as a mechanic at United Airlines in 1990 and became totally immersed in writing his battlefield guidebooks. Homsher has spent more than a decade researching and writing the first of a series of a series of soon-to-be self-published guidebooks to the AEF battlefields and cemeteries in France and Belgium. Born in Pennsylvania but living for many years in California, Homsher has also committed his love of American World War I history to paper by having had many articles printed in World War I historical journals and periodicals, as well as on a number of historical web sites. Homsher, 76, now lives in San Mateo, California, where he has his own publishing company, Battleground Productions. Homsher is a long-time member of the following organizations and societies: Western Front Association, Great War Society, Doughboy Historical Society, Society for Military History, Company of Military Historians, Army Historical Foundation, American Overseas Memorial Day Association, Committee on America’s Military Past.

Inspiration

I am inspired to try and keep alive the memory of our inimitable doughboy of World War I. At the time of this writing there is only ONE member of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) of World War I (1917-1919) left alive, Frank Buckles, aged 106 years. The other two million AEF veterans have gone on to that Valhalla which was assuredly reserved for them.