Record of Past Meeting Speakers and Subject Matter
Speaker’s Name | Subject |
O.W. “Bob” Bankston, ETlc, USN | Pearl Harbor Survivor, USS California, bombs & burns |
Howard C. Bender, YNC, USN | Pearl Harbor Survivor, USS Maryland |
Robert “Stretch” Brandt, QM2c, USN | The LST Sailor and D-Day Landings |
LTC Marc Breslow, USA (Ret.) | JROTC Director Orange High School, The War in Iraq |
Merl “Bus” Cornelius, Sgt. USA. | Serving in General Patton Tank Corps in No. Africa |
Violet Cowden, WASP, WWII | WASP and the women flying the WWII war planes |
Edward Decker, RM1c, USCG | 5 Invasions in the Mediterranean & Normandy |
John F. Durant, M/Sgt. USAAC | “The Berlin Airlift” |
Cdr. John Kirk Ferguson, USN (Ret.) | “The Brown and Blue Water Navy” |
John O. Ferris, CPT, USAAC | B-24 Navigator, Mediterranean & Europe campaigns |
Francis Flacks, S/Sgt, USAF | B-17 Tail Gunner, WWII |
Sp4c Ronnie Guyer, USA | Combat, Vietnam’s major battles |
Sid Hallburn, Sgt. USA | Hand to hand fighting |
WO Jack R. Hammett, USN (Ret.) | Pearl Harbor – a Navy Corpsman & casualties |
Willis E. “Bill” Hardy, Cdr. USN | Navy Fighter Pilot, “Ace in a Day” |
David Lester, S/Sgt. USA | Battle of the Bulge & the Concentration Camps |
Dr. Norman Loats, SK2c,USN | Ship Torpedoed at Sea & Survival at Sea |
Syd Lucas, PFC, USA | Okinawa, the last great battle of WWII |
MGen. William J. Mall Jr., USAF (Ret.) | The “Cold War” and the Strategic Air Command |
Robert H. “Bob” Meyer, Capt. USA | Suicide Missions “Story of the Glider Pilots in Action” |
LCol. Don Oldis, USAF (Ret.) | The Cold War Secret, “A-Bomb Fighter Pilots” |
Sgt. Frank Orzio, USMC (Ret.) | The Vietnam Combat Infantryman |
Louis Possemato, Sgt. USA | Combat infantryman, (BAR) France, Germany |
Harry C. Rawlins, Cdr. USNR, WWII | “Submarines, the Silent Service” |
Lt. Col. Joe Rutthenberg, USMC (Ret.) | Flying Marine H-1. The Presidential Helicopters |
John Skara, 1st Lt. USAAC | P-51 Mustang Fighter Pilot, WWII, France, Germany, Russia |
Major Robert Stenfels, USAF | Ploesti Bombing Raids of the Romanian Oil Fields in WWII |
LCol. Harry Terrell, USAF (Ret.) | Bomber Pilot WWII and Cold War in SAC |
Capt. Robert Thomas, USN (Ret.) | Battleship Gunnery Officer at Pearl Harbor |
Fred Whitaker, Sgt.USA | Battle of the Bulge, March into Germany |