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World War II Roundtable Presents Dr. Price Fishback

Larry Linderman The first presentation of the SaddleBrooke World War II Roundtable this season will be on Wednesday, Oct. 18, in the DesertView Theater at 1 p.m. In the years our Roundtable has been active, I don’t recall a talk on the economics of the United States during World War II. Just think about it…

The SaddleBrooke World War II Roundtable

Larry Linderman The SaddleBrooke World War II Roundtable will not be making a presentation in December, in deference to the large number of members who leave for the holidays. We will return with a talk by the popular James Evans who has already given us two well-received lectures in past years. Evans’ presentation will be…

Leo Barron: The Battle of the Bulge

Larry Linderman On February 28, the SaddleBrooke World War II Roundtable presented a talk by Leo Barron, an instructor of military intelligence at Ft. Huachuca, on the Battle of the Bulge. Leo was able to take a complicated chapter of the war and break it down so the audience, many of whom had no military…

WWII Roundtable: The bombing of Hiroshima

Larry Linderman The SaddleBrooke World War II Roundtable will present a talk by SaddleBrooke resident Mark Klicker on the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on Thursday, April 25, at 1:00 p.m. in the West Ballroom of the MountainView Clubhouse. World War II in the Pacific theater was a totally different kind of war than in…

SaddleBrooke WWII Roundtable presents…

The SaddleBrooke World War II Roundtable will present a talk by SaddleBrooke’s own Mary Jo Swartzberg on Rogue Heroes, a book about Britain’s SAS and the soldiers who operated behind enemy lines. Using slides and information gleaned from a book by Ben Macintyre, Mary Jo will relate the true story of the soldiers who were…

Calling all WWII Veterans

  Larry Linderman The SaddleBrooke World War II Roundtable is a group of folks interested in exploring all aspects of WWII. We have had presentations by members of the Roundtable on such topics as the Normandy invasion, General McCarthur, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the great tank battles in Russia, the role of American women…