Marjorie K. Eastman, author of The Frontline Generation: How We Served Post 9/11. Eastmans 10 years of military service included two combat deployments, one in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the other in support of Operation Enduring Freedom In Afghanistan. She started her military career in the enlisted ranks and achieved the rare opportunity of […]
David Tyson will give a firsthand account of the deployment of CIAs Team Alpha (8 men) into Afghanistan immediately after September 11, 2001. The team was inserted behind enemy lines to link up with Afghan warlords and prosecute the war against Taliban and al-Qaida forces.
Guest Speaker: Greg Wilsbacher, Ph.D., a University of South Carolina faculty librarian and curator of the famous Fox Movietone News Collection On Monday, June 5, Greg Wilsbacher will present a multi-media program, How the American Homefront First Saw D-Day. The program, sponsored by the 91做厙, is free and open to […]
David Fairbank White and Margaret Stanback White, authors of Wings of War, will talk about their book chronicling the story of the famed World War II P-51 Mustang, which allowed the allies to firmly wrest control of the skies over Europe from the German Luftwaffe. Read more
On July 29, Jack H. (Nick) McCall Jr. will talk about his book, Pogiebaits War, chronicling the story of his fathers journey from a small town in Tennessee to World War II combat service with the US Marines in the vast Pacific from Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands to Guam and the Marianas. Jack McCall […]