ON Saturday, March 20, 2021 the
Friends of the National World War II Memorial will hold a seminar on World War II that will feature an ADBC-MS member talking about her search for her father.
REGISTER HERE.
10:00AM to 10:50AM (EDT)Patriots from the BarrioWith Dave Gutierrez, author and historian. In 2019 he was named President of Nuevo Mundo Historical and Genealogical Society of Silicon Valley.
Patriots from the Barrio (2019) is the true story of Company E, 141st US Infantry: the only all Mexican American US Army unit in WWII and one with deep connections with his own family. The film rights to the book have been obtained in Hollywood.
PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3s3IZ9X11:00AM to 11:50AM (EDT)Discovering My FatherWith Nancy Kragh, former vice president of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Memorial Society. She was instrumental in having a memorial stone to the POWs of the ill-fated hellship
Enoura Maru. Her presentation centers on her father's experiences as a POW of Imperial Japan during WWII and her odyssey to connect with a father she did not know who died on the
Enoura Maru. She is a member of the American World War II Orphans Network (AWON), which unites the 183,000 Americans who lost a parent to World War II.
PURCHASE BOOK: (not by Ms. Kragh,
Father Found by Duane Heisinger)
https://amzn.to/3s1exNz
12:00PM to 1:15PM (EDT)The Kitchen Front: Cooking with Rations in Second World War BritainWith Jennifer Ryan, author of
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir,
The Spies of Shilling Lane, and
The Kitchen Front. Originally from Britain, where she was a book editor with
The Economist, DK, and the BBC, she now lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children.
The Kitchen Front (2021), a novel, was inspired by her grandmother's tales of the war.
PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/3qYTXfB
