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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. -Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
WWIIDF
Fall 2023 Semester
September 26th, 8 p.m. ET
Vincent O’Hara & Leonard Heinz:
Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars
October 24th, 8 p.m. ET
Stan Fisher:
Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific
November 11th, 1 p.m. ET
Hal M Friedman:
US Naval War College between 1945 and 1947
December 5th, 8 p.m. ET
Steven K Bailey;
Target Hong Kong: A true story of U.S. Navy pilots at war
October 4th, 8 p.m. ET
Larrie D. Ferreiro:
Churchill's American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations that Won World War II
November 4th, 1 p.m. ET
Anthony Tucker-Jones:
Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front
October 14th, 1 p.m. ET
Jeremy Black:
November 9th, 8 p.m. ET
Edward Luttwak
The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces
November 25th, 1 p.m. ET
Brian Lavery:
Two Navies Divided: The British and United States Navies in the Second World War
December 19th, 8 p.m. ET
Arthur Gullachsen:
Bloody Verrières: The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrières-Bourguebus Ridges
Winter & Spring 2024 Semester
All lectures are free, virtual and open to the public.
January 9th, 8 p.m. ET
Mark Allen
Midway Submerged: American and Japanese Submarine Operations at the Battle of Midway
February 27th, 8 p.m. ET
Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II
January 27th, 1 p.m. ET
​Dilip Amin
Enemy Sighted: The Story of the Battle of Britain Bunker and the World’s First Integrated Air Defence System
February 17th, 1 p.m. ET
Alan Donohue
Warlord Hitler: With Reference to the Campaign in Southern Russia in 1942
March 5th, 8 p.m. ET
Steve Kemper
Our Man In Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
February 3rd, 1 p.m. ET
Denis Courtois
Winning French Minds: Radio Propaganda in Occupied France, 1940–42
February 20th, 8 p.m. ET
David Sears
Duel in the Deep: The Hunters, the Hunted, and a High Seas Fight to Finish
March 17th, 2 p.m. ET
​David Kenyon
Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas
March 23rd, 2 p.m. ET
John WM Chapman
Hitler's Oil Broker: Thomas Brown, Harbinger of Worldwide Conflict
April 16th, 8 p.m. ET
Craig Luther
​The Luftwaffe and Operation Barbarossa
April 2nd, 8 p.m. ET
Gary Bass
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
April 23rd, 8 p.m. ET
Brian E. Walter
Forgotten War: The British Empire and Commonwealth’s Epic Struggle Against Imperial Japan, 1941–1945
May 7th, 8 p.m. ET
​The Defeat of the Damned: The Destruction of the Dirlewanger Brigade at the Battle of Ipolysag, December 1944
May 14th, 8 p.m. ET
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
Summer 2024 Semester
All lectures are free, virtual and open to the public.
June 1st, 1 p.m. ET
​The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
June 8th, 1 p.m. ET
​Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April–May 1945
June 29th, 1p.m. ET
​FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote
June 15th, 1 p.m. ET
​Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory
July 2nd, 8p.m. ET
​Delivering Destruction: American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima
July 16th, 8p.m. ET
​Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded
August 6th, 8p.m. ET
​Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane: Nazi Gold and the Murder of an Entire French Town by SS Division Das Reich
July 23rd, 8p.m. ET
​American Thunder: U.S. Army Tank Design, Development, and Doctrine in World War II
August 13th, 8p.m. ET
Six Air Forces Over the Atlantic: How Allied Airmen Helped Win the Battle of the Atlantic
July 30th, 8p.m. ET
​Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made
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August 20th, 8p.m. ET
The Lion and The General: Churchill, Eisenhower and the Friendship That Changed The World
August 27th, 8p.m. ET
​Nightstalkers: : The Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War II
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