Mark Schwartz SaddleBrooke’s World War II Roundtable welcomes you to our second presentation of the 2025-26 season with a topic that illustrates America’s military superiority in the Pacific Theater. Bill Todd, a former Navy submariner in the nuclear age, will present the exploits of the Navy’s “silent service,” which helped assure victory against Japan. For…
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Generals, April 2025
World War II Roundtable
Our speaker on May 8 at 12:15 p.m. at the DesertView Theater will be Dr. William Myers, and his topic will be “Money, Money, Money! Government Sanctioned Counterfeiting During World War II.” Counterfeiting has existed since the invention of coins. Governments made it illegal but also sanctioned it as a weapon against enemies. The United…
Generals, October 2024
World War II Roundtable Presents the Fifth Column
Ron Stenstrom So, what is meant by the term “fifth column”? Its origins go back to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) when a report circulated that four columns of soldiers were approaching Madrid and a fifth column already existed within Madrid, ready to uprise at the appropriate time. The term has come to mean a…
March 2024, Generals
SaddleBrooke WWII Roundtable Recap So Far
Larry Linderman At its February meeting, 99 Roundtable members watched in awe as SaddleBrooke resident Steve White related his uncle Nick’s experiences in the Battle of Iwo Jima from February through March of 1945. I’m sure not a single person in the audience wasn’t moved as Steve slowly and deliberately went over the battle from…
Generals, February 2024
World War II Roundtable Presents Iwo Jima
Larry Linderman The next meeting of the SaddleBrooke World War II Roundtable will be on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 1 p.m. in the DesertView Theater. Borrowing from his uncle Nick’s personal letters, the memoirs of fellow marines, and from published accounts, Steve White will recount the battle for Iwo Jima from his uncle’s perspective. He…
Clubs & Classes, February 2019
SaddleBrooke WWII Roundtable presents Leo Barron on Battle of the Bulge
Larry Linderman By December 15, 1944 Allied forces in western Europe thought the war was all but won. The USSR had expelled almost all German forces from Russia and were advancing on Poland and the Baltic States, Paris had been liberated and the U.S. Army was moving through Belgium. In a last-ditch attempt to defeat…