HISTORY HUDDLE

At FHCAM Saturday 15th November at 2pm 

'Operation Vengeance'

April 14th, 1943.

Commander Edwin Layton, the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s intelligence officer, froze as two codebreakers burst into his office with a decoded Japanese message.

It revealed everything — flight times, route, aircraft type — for one man: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of Pearl Harbor.

The message raced up  President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who reportedly gave a single order:

“Get Yamamoto.”

Yamamoto was scheduled to fly to a remote island in the Solomon Islands.

A squadron of P-38 Lightnings was chosen for a mission unlike any other — to fly deep into enemy territory with one objective:

to intercept and assassinate Admiral Yamamoto.

At FHCAM Saturday December 20th at 2pm

'Silent Nights in a Noisy War'

In this lecture, I’ll take you on a journey through true stories showing what Christmas looked like in a world at war. 

From the trenches of 1914 to the factory floors of Seattle, we’ll see how people clung to light in darkness.

Because even in the most desperate times, humans find ways to kindle hope.