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Executive Director Sandy Thompson
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April 25, 2013
Alabama Veterans Museum May Coffee Call
Special Guest to Attend
Special Guest to Attend
You
don't want to miss the Coffee Call at the Alabama Veterans Museum on
May 4th we have a very exciting guest who will be joining us!
Come hear the firsthand accounts of a man who...
- Escaped death by kamikaze by 30 seconds
- Heard the 1st atomic bomb blast 300 miles from Japan at sea
- Fought in every battle of the south Pacific war
- Launched 200-300 planes in combat each day
- Torpedoed in combat
- Took every island occupied by Japan from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo
- On 1st landing party to Tokyo
- Worked on the flight deck of USS Lexington
- Lexington was flagship of pacific fleet of 85 ships
- 1st hand account of WWII
We
will have local author and veteran Forrest Bruner as our guest speaker
and he will be also signing his book "Pearl Harbor to Tokyo, 36 Months,
My Hell in the South Pacific."
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Attachment: book cover of "Pearl Harbor to Tokyo, 36 Months, My Hell in the South Pacific" by local author and veteran Forrest Bruner.
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