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  • Erik Brun

    Speaker Series Erik Brun – The Morro Bay Naval Base (1941-1945)

    SLO Vets Hall Lounge 801 Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo, United States

    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. […]

  • The Sinking of the SS Montebello

    Speaker Series: Stuart McDowell – The Sinking of the SS Montebello

    Central Coast Veterans Memorial Museum 801 Grand Avenue, Suite 102, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States

    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 […]