April 16th – Speaker Series: John Hamon (Father’s B-17 & POW Experience)
Time: 4:30pm - 6pm Location: SLO Veterans' Hall
Time: 4:30pm - 6pm Location: SLO Veterans' Hall
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. […]
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 […]