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Fairlawn Kiwanis
Community Center - 3486
S. Smith Rd (off Market St.) Fairlawn,
OH 44333
- (across from City Hall and the Fire Station)
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NEXT MEETING:
March 22, 2007,
THURSDAY, 6:45 P.M. (The 4th Thursday)
SPEAKER: Paul Swanson was a P-51 pilot
shot down over Yugoslavia.
He will relate his experiences in returning to his base in Italy
5 days later.
FEBUARY MEETING SUMMARY:. S. Joseph Krause, PhD, 4th
Infantry (Ivy Division) recounted the savage combat in the Hurtgen
Forest and the Battle
of the Bulge, where he received the Purple Heart. The 4th division
companies often had 100% casualties. It was credited with saving Luxemburg
City from recapture
by the Germans. His excellent book , “Falling Out and Belonging: A
Foot-Soldiers’s Life”, portrayed his personal observations of these epic
campaigns. Attendance was 78.
NEW
FEATURES: 1. Dean Smith’s “War History
Quiz”
2. “Veteran
Spotlight”
BOOK SALE: The Roundtable received 10 boxes of books dealing with
WWII and Korea from the estate of Alan Smith. They are on sale (price
range $ 1-10) with the proceeds going to the Roundtable. Currently they are
being housed in the office of Dean Smith. For the present he will bring a
different box to each of our next meetings.
2007 THEME:
“Bring a Veteran”. Personally bring a veteran and his or her family with you to
our meetings.
VHP: (Veterans
History Project) Report: So far in 2006 the Roundtable has sent 3 interviews to
the Library of Congress ( 2 Army from WWII and 1 Army from Korea).
We are in desperate need of more
Roundtable volunteers to interview
veterans.
SPEAKERS FOR 2007:
Dr. Thomas Adams is our official “speakers” recruiter. Call Tom at 330 668 3672 to volunteer
yourself or to recommend others.
FUTURE SPEAKERS:
April 26, 2007: Richard Danielson,
US Marine Corps served in
WWII. He returned to active duty in Korea
including the infamous Chosen Reservoir campaign.
ROUNDTABLE OFFICERS:
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President
C. Dave Post
(330)
668-2447
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1st
Vice President
Dr. Thomas Adams
(330)
668-3672
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2nd
Vice President
Larry Heller
(330)
633-7737
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Secretary
Dean Smith
(330)
762-8885
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Treasurer
Daniel Demko
(330)
666-2502
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WEB
SITE: Dave Hall has set up our Web Site at: http://www.wwiirt.com
SHORT HISTORY
QUIZ from the Education Officer
What American
plane was called the “Widowmaker”?
Martin Marauder B-26
Which
American unit was called the “Rag Tag Circus”?
87th division
What was
“Operation Bolero”? The transfer of U.S.
troops from America
to England