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Event Series Lunchbox Lecture Series

Lunchbox Lecture: The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line with Major General Mari K. Eder

Fleda A. Ring Education Quonset Hut 3 Overlord Circle, Bedford, VA

Mari K. Eder Major General Mari K. Eder will share stories of ordinary women who did extraordinary things during World War II as pilots, spies, scientists, and ground-breaking innovators. Their absorbing stories are told in her book The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II. April Cheek-Messier, National D-Day Memorial Foundation President & CEO, will join Eder for this Women's History Month event. A book signing will follow this in-person lecture. Purchase book in our online store. https://youtube.com/live/9LW00ww2SA8?feature=share

Event Series Lunchbox Lecture Series

Lunchbox Lecture: Invasion On! with Stephen M. Rusiecki

Fleda A. Ring Education Quonset Hut 3 Overlord Circle, Bedford, VA

Stephen Rusiecki Arguably no day since Pearl Harbor was as newsworthy as June 6, 1944—D-Day. Long anticipated by the American public, how the news of the invasion was covered by a cooperative news media shaped, says historian Stephen M. Rusiecki, how we still view the event 80 years later. Rusiecki will sign copies of his book, Invasion On: D-Day, the Press, and the Making of an American Narrative, following this in-person lecture. https://youtube.com/live/xAxXJLGkCC4?feature=share