Roundtable

Dr. Harold Deutsch WWII History Round Table
2009-10 Schedule

Meetings are at the History Center at Historic Fort Snelling the second Thursday of the month. Meetings start at 7:00 p.m. The fee for each program is $5, free for students.

We seek veterans as panelists for these upcoming programs. Contact Don Patton, (952) 941-5700.

11 March 2010 - The New Guinea Campaign. James Campbell, author of Ghost Mountain Boys, joins with Southwest Pacific Campaign Veterans for a lecture about the campaign. The much overlooked campaign in the Southwest Pacific and New Guinea landing were part of the Allies' successful island hopping strategy. Many of the troops who fought this war in the jungles were from the 32nd Infantry Division, a Wisconsin National Guard unit.

8 April 2010 -The Invasion of Anzio. Author, H. Paul Jeffers will be joined by Veterans for a presentation on the Invasion of Anzio. Despite early success of the surprise landing in late January 1944, savage fighting soon developed on the narrow 15-mile-long Anzio Beachhead south of Rome. By the breakout four months later, the Allies had lost nearly 30,000 men.

13 May 2010 - Air Operations in the CBI: The Hump, Air Commandos and Air Cargo. This lecture is presented by author and historian Al Lathrop, with Veterans of the China Burma India Theater. Air support in the CBI Theater was crucial to maintain ground operations; rugged and inhospitable terrain often made supply otherwise impossible. Cargo flights from India and over the Himalayas (The Hump) kept China in the war and brought men, equipment and supplies into Burma to defeat the Japanese.