Learn the incredible story of how one small airport in New Hampshire, now known as Manchester Airport, played an important role in transporting members of the 8th Airforce as well as weather squadrons sent to Greenland and Labrador to help predict the weather across Europe, especially D-day. Leah is Associate Director Aviation Museum of New […]
12:00 Noon Join us for a showing of the movie The Longest Day. Viewing will be in the Education Center. 5:30 p.m. D-Day Presentation by Prospect Mountain High School students. A group of students from Mike Folans’s history class at Prospect Mountain High School will present their research on the lives of NH […]
One Hour chats with Special Guests in the Exhibit Gallery. Check website or Facebook for daytime programming. July 11 July 25 August 8 August 22
2:00 p.m. The Wolfeboro Library’s Tuesday Book group led by Joyce Davis will discuss the book, The Longest Day.
Joe McQuaid—War Fronts Home Fires: A WWII Correspondents remarkable coverage, his wife’s indominable spirit. As a World War II newspaper correspondent, B.J. McQuaid covered American and British front lines from the frozen Aleutian Islands of Alaska to the steaming jungles and seas of the South Pacific, at Tarawa and Guadalcanal and then to Europe from […]
Ron Janowski – Break out from Normandy After the Allied landings in Normandy, commanders began to formulate a plan to push out from the beachhead. Initial efforts were hampered by the need to take the city of Caen in the east and the dense hedgerow country in the west. Seeking to launch a major breakout, […]
One Hour chats with Special Guests in the Exhibit Gallery. Check website or Facebook for daytime programming. July 11 July 25 August 8 August 22
Peggy Hennelly-Maniates - A Hero of Two Nations Learn the story of a young paratrooper who is the only known American soldier to have served in combat with both the United States Army and the Soviet Red Army in World War II. He took part in Mission Albany, the airborne landings of the 101st Airborne […]
Garret Shetrawski – The Life and Legacy of Captain Andre Haldane Also known as Ack Ack, using skills he learned as captain of the football and baseball teams in Bowdoin College, led his men bravely though the battlefield of the Pacific. His story is portrayed in the 2010 HBO Miniseries The Pacific.
Join us for the Official 30th Anniversary party. More information to come!
Ed Gordon – The Other Nuremberg: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial (1946-1948) During World War II political and military leaders of the Empire of Japan committed major war crimes and crimes against humanity. Over 6 million civilians and prisoners of war were killed by the Japanese. Three percent of Allied soldiers died in German and […]