A Soldier’s Pride – Guest Speaker Program
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Transylvania Elections Center 150 South Gaston Street, Brevard, NC, United States
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Guest Speaker, Jeff Brewer presents The Battle of Bunker Hill: Prelude to Independence
Transylvania County Library 212 South Gaston Street, Brevard, United StatesJeff Brewer, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, will present the free program “The Battle of Bunker Hill: Prelude to Independence.” The presentation will be held in the Rogow Room. Click here to read more about this presentation Free
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My U-2 Years… Dancing with the Dragon Lady
Transylvania County Library 212 South Gaston Street, Brevard, United StatesWoodhull’s program will explain that two generations of the U-2 – known colloquially in Air Force circles as “The Dragon Lady” – have been deployed by the United States since the mid-1950s to perform a multitude of sensitive reconnaissance missions. For example, U-2s have conducted high-atmospheric sampling to detect evidence of nuclear testing, as well […]
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Winning the European Skies of WWII
Transylvania Elections Center 150 South Gaston Street, Brevard, NC, United StatesWilkerson’s program on September 8 will present highlights of the premier American fighter aircraft of the WWII European theater – the P-38 Lightning, the P-47 Thunderbolt, and the P-51 Mustang. He will also share vignettes of the colorful fighter pilots who flew them. Read More
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James M. Scott – speaks about his new book Black Snow
Transylvania County Library 212 South Gaston Street, Brevard, United StatesDrawing on first-person interviews with American pilots and bombardiers and Japanese survivors, as well air force archives and oral histories, Scott has produced a gripping narrative account of the devastating firebombing campaign. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for his previous book, Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, Scott spoke previously in […]