Featured Keynote Speaker

Michael S. Bell, PhD
Executive Director, Institute for the Study of War and Democracy
The National WWII Museum
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Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy

Featured Speakers

Helen Patton
Granddaughter of General George S. Patton

David Nasaw
Author of The Wounded Generation
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James Campbell
Author of Ghost Mountain Boys
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Michel Paradis
Author of In the Light of Battle
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Michael P. Faley
100th Bomb Group historian
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Rebecca Crosby Hutchinson
Daughter of 100th Bomb Group navigator and author Harry Crosby
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Colin Heaton
Luftwaffe historian, author, and consultant to Apple+ TV’s Masters of the Air
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Chris Kolakowski
Director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum
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Roger Cirillo
Research-author for American Armies and Battlefields in Europe: World War II series

Jeff Ballard
Naval historian and Pacific War author
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Dave Holland
Guadalcanal historian, author, and battlefield guide
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Carol Schultz
Author of The Hidden Legacy of World War II
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Rich Sherman
Navy veteran, photographer, and author of Never Home
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