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SUMMARY:Author Talk at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force’s monthly Author Talk series is proud to present Kaitlin Oster\, who will be discussing her grandparents love story in Letters to Loretta: The World War II Love Letter Story of Harold & Loretta Schwerdt. This event will take place on February 1st at 11:00 am at the museum.\nThe event is free to the public\, but registration is required. Please register here.\n\nOptional Lunch: Join us for an optional lunch afterwards. $12cash/credit for members or $15 cash/credit for non-members.\n\nAbout the PresenterKaitlin Oster is the creator of The Letters to Loretta Series and currently a professor of English and American Cinema Genres based out of Grand Rapids\, Michigan. Prior to earning her Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from the David Lynch School of Cinematic Arts\, she spent much her childhood in the company of her grandparents\, Harold and Loretta\, at their small creekfront house on Long Island. After Loretta’s passing in 2007\, Harold gifted Kaitlin a small box stuffed with around 120 letters\, and she read and transcribed them all to both work through her own grief and preserve her grandparents’ story. After losing Harold in 2019\, Kaitlin found herself on a years-long deep-dive into the stark conditions of Stalag XVII-B prison camp\, since most of the letters were written on German prison parchment. The Letters to Loretta Series was created to show not only the atrocities of war\, but the power of the human will—and with the support of award-winning journalist Alex Hollings—Kaitlin was given a 35-week platform on Sandboxx News to share this story. Throughout the five years that she worked on this project\, Kaitlin’s message has always been clear—love is the greatest weapon of all—and she is honored to share her grandparents’ journey to the public with the support of the Museum of the Mighty 8th.
URL:https://www.georgiawwiitrail.org/event/author-talk-at-the-national-museum-of-the-mighty-eighth-air-force-4/
LOCATION:National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force\, 175 Bourne Avenue\, Pooler\, GA\, 31322\, United States
CATEGORIES:National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
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SUMMARY:2025 Super Museum Sunday
DESCRIPTION:Explore history\, arts\, and culture in communities throughout Georgia as over 100 museums and historic sites across the state open to the public for free during this popular event organized as part of the annual Georgia History Festival. Check out our Partners on the Georgia WWII Heritage Trail.
URL:https://www.georgiawwiitrail.org/event/2025-super-museum-sunday/
CATEGORIES:National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force,World War II Home Front Museum
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SUMMARY:Author Talk at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
DESCRIPTION:The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force’s monthly Author Talk series is proud to present author & astronaut Jan Davis\, PhD.\, who will be discussing how her father spent his time as a POW during World War II in Air Born: Artistic Musings of a WWII Pilot & POW. This event will take place on February 20th at 11:00 am at the museum.\n\nOptional Lunch: Join us for an optional lunch afterwards. $10/12 cash/credit for members or $15/17cash/credit for non-members.\n\nThe program is free to the public\, but registration is required: https://forms.gle/n6WXLfiYKyjUQkPq7\n\nAbout the BookWhen lifelong artist and World War II B-17 pilot Ben Smotherman was shot down over Holland in July 1943\, he was soon captured and interrogated by the Luftwaffe at Dulag Luft. Upon being transferred to the Luftwaffe camp Stalag Luft III\, he found himself a prisoner of war (POW)\, held captive with countless other men who ached for a connection home and freedom.\nDuring his time in captivity\, Ben kept his Wartime Log to chronicle his daily life – with the unique inclusion of beautiful watercolor paintings and pencil drawings. In addition\, he applied his talents to create PENNY\, an engaging and well-loved comic strip following a female war correspondent of the same name. This comic strip not only entertained and enthralled his audiences with each new issue – it gave them hope.\nBen Smotherman’s experiences and artistic renderings are masterfully captured in Jan Davis’ Air Born: Artistic Musings of a WWII Pilot & POW. In this companion piece to Air Born: Two Generations in Flight\, readers will get an inside look at what it felt like to be a POW during WWII. Although Ben couldn’t freely describe what he and his fellow POWs endured while in captivity due to censoring\, this book paints a comprehensive picture with his Wartime Log paired with Jan’s contextual explanations. Further\, it depicts each of the ninety-six PENNY comic strips that Ben developed and illustrated himself. Without a doubt\, this second Air Born volume is a don’t-miss read for anyone interested in the history of WWII.\n\nAbout the AuthorBorn at Patrick Air Force Base and raised in Huntsville\, Alabama\, Jan Davis has been surrounded by aviation and space her entire life. She followed up her biomedical engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology with a mechanical engineering degree from Auburn University and a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. During her career\, she worked as an engineer for Texaco and for NASA before being selected as an astronaut in 1987. Davis flew on three Space Shuttle missions as an astronaut mission specialist and continued her NASA career in the Senior Executive Service. After her retirement from NASA\, she went on to become an industry executive and subsequently published her debut book\, Air Born: Two Generations in Flight\, in 2025. Now a consultant and speaker\, she also enjoys traveling\, quilting\, exploring the outdoors\, and working with her non-profit organization\, AstraFemina\, to encourage girls to pursue science\, technology\, engineering\, and math careers. Jan also currently serves on the Board at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force.
URL:https://www.georgiawwiitrail.org/event/author-talk-at-the-national-museum-of-the-mighty-eighth-air-force-5/
LOCATION:National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force\, 175 Bourne Avenue\, Pooler\, GA\, 31322\, United States
CATEGORIES:National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
ORGANIZER;CN="National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force":MAILTO:marketing@mightyeighth.org
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SUMMARY:GA WWII Heritage Trail Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Happy Fourth Anniversary to our Trail Partners!  On February 16\, 2021\, the Georgia WWII Heritage Trail was launched. “Discover Georgia’s legacy of inspiring wartime stories at the sites that make up the new World War II Heritage Trail. Southern states were critical to the war effort during World War II (1941-1945)\, and none more so than Georgia. Over 300\,000 Georgians served in the military\, and thousands of civilians worked in rapidly expanding defense industries. Ten sites across the state have partnered to bring a new experience to visitors\, families\, and groups.”  We are now eleven Partners with more stories to tell of the Greatest Generation. See you on the Trail.
URL:https://www.georgiawwiitrail.org/event/ga-wwii-heritage-trail-anniversary/
CATEGORIES:World War II Flight Training Museum
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SUMMARY:Author Talk at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
DESCRIPTION:The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force’s monthly Author Talk series is proud to present author Rona Simmons\, who will be discussing her latest book No Average Day: The 24 Hours of October 24\,1944. This program will take place on February 26th at 11:00 am at the museum. \nThe program is free to the public\, but please register at https://forms.gle/W1U571VXPtmS4beN6 \nOptional Lunch: Join us for an optional lunch afterwards. $10/12 cash/credit for members or $15/17cash/credit for non-members. \nAbout the Book\nOn Tuesday\, October 24\, 1944\, nearly three years after the United States entered World War II\, over 2\,600 Americans perished—more than on any other single day of the conflict—yet the day remains overshadowed by more widely remembered dates in WWII history. Drawing from the accounts of men from diverse backgrounds who served in the U.S. Army\, Navy\, Marines\, and Air Corps\, Rona Simmons offers a gripping retelling of the fateful day\, hour by hour and incident by incident. The book begins with Army Private First Class Paul Miller’s demise in a prisoner of war camp and ends with the death of Navy Seaman Second Class Wanza E. Matthews after the Japanese submarine I-56 attacked his ship off New Guinea. The sinking of the Japanese “hellship” Arisan Maru—a lesser-known tragedy of the war—looms large\, deftly interwoven through each part of the narrative. \nPerhaps the most compelling aspect of No Average Day is its attention to the human side of conflict\, telling the stories of ordinary individuals—clerks\, radio operators\, cooks\, sailors\, machinist mates\, riflemen\, and pilots and their air crews—as they grapple with the horrors of the war. Despite its narrow focus\, or perhaps because of it\, No Average Day reveals the vastness of World War II through consideration of the largely overlooked events that unfolded on what\, for members of the US Armed Forces\, was its deadliest day. \nAbout the Author\nRona Simmons has authored historical fiction and nonfiction. Both A Gathering of Men and The Other Veterans of World War II: Stories from Behind the Front Lines shed light on little-known aspects of the Second World War. She is the daughter of a WWII fighter pilot and wife of a US Navy pilot and is proud to honor veterans and their stories through her work. Her articles and interviews have appeared in regional and national literary journals and in online and print magazines and newspapers.
URL:https://www.georgiawwiitrail.org/event/author-talk-at-the-national-museum-of-the-mighty-eighth-air-force-6/
LOCATION:National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force\, 175 Bourne Avenue\, Pooler\, GA\, 31322\, United States
CATEGORIES:National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
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