"A Young Yank
in the RAF in WWII"
Steve Furste, In-person speaker
WWII Roundtable Hybrid Dinner Meeting (In-Person and via Zoom)
Monday, April 26, 2021, 7:00 PM
"Steve Furste relates his father’s unique WWII service and life in England and much more..."
See April 2021 Newsletter, pages 2 & 13.
The Pacific Theater 1941 - 1945
by John Shively, author/historian and WWII Roundtable member
A series of free monthly informative and engaging GoToMeeting webinar lectures this winter and following spring
beginning in January 2021, second Monday of the month, and repeating on the following Saturday on YouTube.
1. "Japanes Strategic War Objectives" - Jan 11, 2021 @ 7:00 PM; repeats Jan 16 @ 4:00 PM (EST)
2. "First 24-Hours of the War in the Pacific" - Feb 8, 2021 @ 7:00 PM; repeats Feb 13 @ 4:00 PM (EST)
3. "Battle for Wake and Guam” - YouTube
4. "Guadalcanal - The First Offensive, Part 1" - YouTube
5. "Guadalcanal - The First Offensive, Part 2" - YouTube
(Additional scheduled lectures in this series shall be listed here.)
"Gerald Mansbach served as a sergeant and tank commander in the U.S. Army. Mansbach’s Fourth Armored Division was part of Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army. Mansbach's military honors include a Purple Heart, Silver Star, and Bronze Star. In 2013 he was awarded the prestigious French Legion of Honor, originally created by Napoleon Bonaparte." (January Newsletter, pgs. 1, 6.)
Video program
Monday, January 25, 2021
"Gerald Mansbach’s World War II Memories"
INDIANAPOLIS WORLD WAR II ROUNDTABLE - ERNIE PYLE CHAPTER
Guest speaker:
LtGen. Carol Mutter, USMC (Ret)
“From a Jack to a King – Farm Girl to World Stage”
presented in-person, Monday, November 23, 2020
"Honoring Our Fallen Warriors Overseas"
The Story of American Cemeteries on Foreign Soil and
the Work of the American Battle Monuments Commission
by Ron May
WWII Roundtable member, author & historian
WWII Roundtable Meeting via Zoom - Monday, February 22, 2021, 7:00 PM
Honoring Women in theMilitary Month
Where History and Heroes Meet