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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, The Battle of Château-Thierry is very close to being published.

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 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, 75, 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:
American Overseas Memorial Day Association
Army Historical Foundation
Company of Military Historians
Council on America's Military Past
Doughboy Historical Society
Great War Society
Organization of American Historians
Society for Military History
Western Front Association

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