Events in May–July 2020
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April 30, 2020(1 event)
3:00 pm: Online Event: Joel Poznansky on the Coldstream Guards3:00 pm: Online Event: Joel Poznansky on the Coldstream Guards – Joel Poznansky is a member of Jewish War Veterans Post 692 in Maryland. You will probably notice he has a strange accent, but he is a proud American citizen and immigrant. Although he was born and grew up in England, his father is Canadian - having immigrated there from Poland in 1936 as a young boy, with his parents and siblings, the only branch of a large family to survive the Holocaust. Joel joined the army after college, as one of a very small number of Jews in the British army at that time, and perhaps the only one to have served in the Coldstream Guards. The reaction of family and friends when he joined up after college was....very mixed, and his parents still hoped until recently he might become a doctor or a lawyer. He will talk about the history of this unique, royal regiment and his service at Sandhurst, in Germany, as part of a NATO mechanized battalion and during the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1980’s. |
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3:00 pm: Online Event: Bernard Lubran on the Ritchie Boys3:00 pm: Online Event: Bernard Lubran on the Ritchie Boys – Bernard Lubran joins us to discuss the soldiers trained in military intelligence at Camp Ritchie, MD during World War II. Many of them were German-speaking immigrants who had fled from the Nazis in Europe. Bernie Lubran, the son of a Ritchie Boy, is the President of the Friends of Camp Ritchie, an educational non-profit whose purpose is to educate the public about the importance of Camp Ritchie and the soldiers who trained there during World War II, "The Ritchie Boys." See the Facebook page, Ritchie Boys of WWII, where more information can be found about their achievements. Bernie and his wife reside in North Bethesda, MD. |
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May 14, 2020(1 event)
3:00 pm: Online Event: Blind Bombing with Norman Fine and George Jacobs3:00 pm: Online Event: Blind Bombing with Norman Fine and George Jacobs – Author Norman Fine and World War II B-17 Navigator George Jacobs discuss Blind Bombing: How Microwave Radar Brought the Allies to D-Day and Victory in World War II. Online Event: Blind Bombing with Norman Fine and George Jacobs |
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June 11, 2020(1 event)
3:00 pm: Online Event: The Hebrew Union Veterans Association and The Shapell Roster, Part I3:00 pm: Online Event: The Hebrew Union Veterans Association and The Shapell Roster, Part I – The researchers of the Shapell Manuscript Foundation Roster Project join us on Zoom to discuss Jews in the Civil War and the members of the Hebrew Union Veterans Association (HUVA). HUVA, the progenitor of became the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., was formed in 1896 as an organization for Union veterans. The Shapell Roster is the first-ever comprehensive data archive documenting the Jewish soldiers who served in the American Civil War. Over the course of ten years, Shapell Manuscript Foundation researchers unearthed a treasure trove of information on Union and Confederate Jews during the Civil War era, giving life to a buried record of the Jewish-immigrant experience and American patriotism. Online Event: The Hebrew Union Veterans Association and The Shapell Roster, Part I |
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June 18, 2020(1 event)
3:00 pm: Online Event: Saving Israel: WWII Aviators in Israel's War of Independence - Boaz Dvir3:00 pm: Online Event: Saving Israel: WWII Aviators in Israel's War of Independence - Boaz Dvir – Boaz Dvir joins us on Zoom to discuss his new book Saving Israel: The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation’s Independence. As it prepared to ward off an invasion by five well-equipped neighboring armies in 1948, newborn Israel lacked the weapons to defend itself. Enter Al Schwimmer, an American World War II veteran who feared a repeat of the Holocaust. He created factitious airlines, bought decommissioned airplanes from the US War Asset Administration, fixed them in California and New Jersey, and sent his pilots—Jewish and non-Jewish WWII aviators—to pick up rifles, bullets, and fighter planes from the only country willing to break the international arms embargo: communist Czechoslovakia. Award-winning filmmaker and Penn State University assistant professor Boaz Dvir tells the stories of ordinary people who, under extraordinary circumstances, transform into trailblazers who change the world around them. They include an average inner-city schoolteacher who emerges as a disruptive innovator and a national model (Discovering Gloria); a World War II flight engineer who transforms into the leader of a secret operation to prevent a second Holocaust (A Wing and a Prayer); an uneducated truck driver who becomes a highly effective child-protection activist (Jessie’s Dad); and a French business consultant who sets out to kill former Nazi officer Klaus Barbie and ends up playing a pivotal role in history’s most daring hostage-rescue operation (Cojot). Online Event: Saving Israel: WWII Aviators in Israel's War of Independence - Boaz Dvir |
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July 30, 2020(1 event)
3:00 pm: Online Event - Taliban Safari with Paul Darling3:00 pm: Online Event - Taliban Safari with Paul Darling – About this EventLieutenant Colonel (Retired) Paul Darling joins us to discuss his book Taliban Safari: One Day in the Surkhagan Valley and his experiences as a combat soldier in Afghanistan. We aren’t home yet, Major Paul Darling reminds his team at the end of a sixteen-hour day. “Two more miles and we are done. We have pissed off a lot of Taliban today, and they are going to want payback.” Shortly, the major will find himself sitting on a concrete basketball court next to the bunker where the day started so long ago, talking by satellite phone to his wife on the other side of the world. When she asks, “What happened?” there is too much to say. But one day, he promises himself, he will put into words what it was like–one day in the life of a combat soldier in Afghanistan in 2009. This is the story of that day. In crisp prose and sharp detail Darling offers a moment-by-moment account of a one-day mission to track down and kill Taliban insurgents in the Zabul Province of southeastern Afghanistan. A rare day-in-the-life narrative that is also a page-turner, his story captures the mundane realities of deployment—the waiting, the heat, the heavy gear, the 0345 wake-up—along with the high-octane experience of crossing foreign terrain where every turn, every decision might have life or death consequences. The living accommodations, reporting up the chain of command, the bureaucracy, and the almost insurmountable challenges of functioning effectively in two cultures—all become intimately real in Darling’s telling as he balances the imperatives of his mission and the skills of his men against the ever-multiplying unknowns, the unpredictable and dangerous Afghan “allies,” and the elusive enemy: the unseen IED and the possibility of fatal miscalculation. In the midst of the soldier’s everyday drama of never quite knowing what comes next, Darling’s moments of humor and reflection put the chaos and uncertainties of combat into a larger perspective. The story is about one man and the ethical choices and compromises he has to make as a leader—a man who has promises to keep: to family; to country; to his soldiers, both Afghan and American; and, ultimately, to himself. Paul Darling, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (retired), lives in Kansas City, Missouri and is both father and son of combat veterans. His writing has been published in various venues including Defense News, Proceedings, Military Review, Armed Forces Journal, and Air and Space Power Journal. He is a member of Jewish War Veterans Mo-Kan Post 605 in Overland Park, Kansas. |
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