We meet at 7:00pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September through May at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, unless otherwise noted below:
2024
September 10 JOHN McMANUS – Author of SEPTEMBER HOPE will discuss the Airborne 80th Operation – MARKET-GARDEN – and the attempt for an early end to the War in Europe by the end of 1944, with Veteran Experiences. (PDF)
September 24 DR WILLIAM DAUGHERTY – Author of THE EIGHTH AIR FORCE IN WWII will present the history of the formation of the Air Forces in Europe and the Bombing Strategy of targets of Military Significance with VETERANS of the Air Campaigns
October 8 GREG FONTENOT – Author of NO SACRIFICE TOO GREAT will tell the story of the FIRST DIVISION assault on the Stolberg Corridor and Aachen and into the Huertgen Forest debacle in the Fall of 1944.
October 22 TERRANCE FURGERSON – Author of THE DALLAS STORY will discuss the explosion of Aircraft Production in TEXAS, AND BRUCE KITT – will tell about the MOD Center in St Paul and its importance to the War effort in Minnesota
November 13 (WEDNESDAY) THE DR. HAROLD C. DEUTSCH LECTURE
LTG JAMES DUBIK – Author of JUST WAR will challenge the logic of War as a solution to Diplomatic disputes and the Clausewitz Principles of War.
December 10 KEVIN HYMEL – Author of PATTON’S WAR – Volume #2 will tell the impact of the Battle of the Bulge in the decimation of the Nazi Attack in the largest land battle on the western front.
2025
January 14 MARC WORTMAN – Author of THE GREATEST CAPITALIST WHO EVER LIVED will explain the evolution of the technology of IBM in WWII, AND LOWELL BENSON will tell the importance how the roots of the Glider Program in WWII led into the computers industry in Minnesota.
February 11 RICK BEYER – Author of – GHOST SOLDIERS will reveal the little known contribution how the 23rd HQ’s Special Troops used deception to fool the enemy on the strength of the US forces that were opposing them.
March 11 MG MARI K. EDER – Author of – THE GIRLS WHO STEPPED OUT OF LINE will reveal the overlooked Major contributions by a selection of Women In WWII to a multitude of different aspects of the final Victory, AND PEGGY MUNRO SCHOLBERG – Author of -GIRLS IN A WORLD AT WAR tells the experiences of her Mother in Europe in WWII.
March 25 MARK ALLEN – Author of – MIDWAY SUBMERGED adds the important Role of submarines to the Victory of the Battle of MIDWAY that has been largely addressed as a Naval Aviation Operation.
April 8 JAMES FENELON – Author of ANGELS AGAINST THE SUN lays out the role of the 11th Airborne Division in its Victory in the Pacific from the Leyte landings to Luzon and Manila to occupational security in Japan.
May 13 MG JAMES HOLSINGER –Author of PATTON’S TACTICIAN is a biography of LTG Geoffrey Keyes who served on the Staff of Patton from TORCH to the Occupation of Germany after VE Day and adds a new aspect of War.
JOIN US FOR OUR SPRING TOUR TO MARKET GARDEN sites, including Merker, Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Weimar, Berlin! (Dates TBD)