Veterans Museum Guest Speaker Set for October Learn by Doing – Operation Double Strike David Blakely, Thursday, October 15, at 4:30 pm Back in March 2023, David Blakely gave a presentation on Masters of the Air, where he introduced us to his father, Everett Blakely, a World War II B-17 pilot with the “Bloody 100th.” […]
Author Stuart McDowell will return to the Central Coast to talk about how an I-15 type Japanese submarine launched a single torpedo and sunk the oil tanker SS Montebello off the coast of Cambria just 16 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Our museum features this story with a display at the entrance to […]
Erik Brun, a Cal Poly history graduate and military veteran, is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and military historian based right here on the Central Coast. He specializes in World War II history of American units composed of marginalized or minority groups. He frequently lectures and leads tours for local museums and historical societies. […]
