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MEETING OF THE WORLD WAR II – KOREAN WAR ROUNDTABLE

March 24, 2005 THURSDAY, 6:45 P.M.  

                                           Fairlawn Kiwanis Community Center

                             3486 S. Smith Rd (off Market St.) Fairlawn, OH 44333

                                        across from City Hall and the Fire Station

 

TOPIC:  Dr. Joe Foley will relate his experiences as an Army doctor on the landing

               beaches from Sicily to Normandy. He also has some comments about General

               George Patton.

 

FEBRUARY  MEETING SUMMARY

      Dr. John Liambeis spoke about his experiences with the Greek Partisans during WWII. He met with a number of their leaders and with several of the British agents attached to the Partisans. One of there operations was the destruction of bridges on the roads used by the Germans to supply the Africa Corps. Spiros (Sam) Pappas also spoke. He was attached to a different Partisan group but his experiences were similar to those of Dr. Liambeis. Neither were involved with the civil war in Greece that followed after WWII.        Our attendance was 91

 

SPEAKERS FOR 2005: Do you know of anyone who served in North Africa, Sicily or Italy during WWII? If you do, please call Dean Smith. He is also looking for anyone who is knowledgeable about the proposed invasion of Japan or the intelligence service.

 

WEB SITE: Dave Hall has set up a Web Site for the Roundtable . It can be reached at

    http://www.wwiirt.com . Dave is looking for your biography to put on the site. At our

    next meetings Larry Heller will be taking pictures of our past and present speakers for

    posting on the Web Site.

 

EXECUTIVE MEETING ACTIONS: The executive board made the following decisions:

  1. We would provide copies of all both our past and future talks to the University of Akron archives.

  2. We would provide a copy of the talk to the speaker (both past and future).

  3. We will give at least $200 to the Fairlawn Recreation Department for providing us a meeting room this year.

 

  ROUNDTABLE OFFICERS                       

   President         1st Vice President     2nd Vice President      Secretary    Treasurer

 Ed Bollinger          Dave Post                  John Scherba        Dean Smith       Daniel Demko

330 836 6272        330 668 2447           330 336 2938      330 762 8885      330 666 2502

 

    OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – BRING A GUEST  -- DUES ONLY $10.00 PER YEAR                   

 

                                                FUTURE  SPEAKERS

April 28 : John Sudyk ;”The Field Artillery from Normandy to Czechoslovakia”

May 26 : The air war over Jugoslavia

June 22 :  Action in Italy

 

 

                               DUES $ 10.00 to August 2005

 

Please complete the following and return the form with your payment to Dan Demko,

Treasurer, 1627 S. Cleveland Massillon Rd., Copley, OH 44321. Checks should be

payable to the World War II – Korean War Roundtable.

 

NAME:_________________________________________________________________

 

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World War II – Korean War Roundtable

  777 W. Market Street

   Akron, OH, 44303