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In observance of the 75th Anniversary of the landings at Inchon, Korea, the Military History Club welcomes a Zoom appearance by Christopher Perry, Command Historian of the Royal Canadian Navy on Tuesday, September 23. In this amphibious operation, United Nations sea and land forces from seven nations, including Canadian destroyers, HMCS Cayuga, HMCS Athabaskan and HMCS Sioux, reversed the tide of North Korean advance.
Mr. Perry is retired from a 27-year career in the Royal Canadian Navy, including deployments in the Arabian and Persian Gulfs, and holds an MA degree in War in the Modern World from King’s College, London and was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Join us as we reflect on this landmark battle of the Korean War. For link, contact Jim Gallen, jmgalen1@juno.com.
Right: A U.S. Navy Vought F4U-4B Corsair of Fighter Squadron 113 (VF-113) Stingers flies over U.S. ships at Inchon, Korea, on 15 September 1950. VF-113 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 11 (
At noon on Tuesday, August 26, the Military History Club welcomes a return Zoom presentation by Craig Symonds, who will talk about the subject of his new book,
Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire in World War II. Symonds is a professor Emeritus at the U. S. Naval Academy and was the Distinguished Visiting Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College. He is a recipient of Lincoln Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, the Gilder-Lehrman Military History prize and Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing and frequent speaker nationally and on C-Span. Join us for this informative and engaging program.
