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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
World War II Discussion Forum
Winter-Spring 2025 Semester
All lectures are free, virtual and open to the public.
A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II
January 14th, 8pm ET
Communiques of General MacArthur: Pacific Campaigns, July 1942-February 1945
February 8th, 1pm ET
Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm
February 4th, 8pm ET
Uncertain Allies: General Joseph Stilwell and the China-Burma-India Theater
February 19th, 8pm ET
Aces at Kursk: The Battle for Aerial Supremacy on the Eastern Front, 1943
February 25th, 8pm ET
Graphic War: The Secret Aviation Drawings and Illustrations of World War II
March 4th, 8pm ET
Wake Island Wildcat: A Marine Fighter Pilot's Epic Battle at the Beginning of World War II
March 21st, 8pm ET
The "Rape" of Japan: The Myth of Mass Sexual Violence during the Allied Occupation
March 25th, 8pm ET
Never a Dull Moment: The 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion in World War II
March 11th, 8pm ET
King’s Navy: The U.S. Navy of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, 1897-1947
April 1st, 8pm ET
Nimitz’s Newsman: Waldo Drake and the Navy’s Censored War in the Pacific
April 8th, 8pm ET
Invasion On: D-Day, the Press, and the Making of an American Narrative
April 15th, 8pm ET
Guest of Adolf: The War of SSG Ernest V. Focht, 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion
April 29th, 8pm ET
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
May 20th, 8pm ET
Yukikaze's War: The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." - Leon Trotsky
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