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Stuart Lecture
November 17, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
On December 7, 1941, a Pan Am passenger plane winging over the central Pacific learned that the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor, where they had landed and embarked from the day before the attack. The adventures of the plane and its crew as they worked to escape attack and get home safely make up a little-known but compelling tale. The plane not only had to avoid Japanese aircraft, it had to find safe places to land and refuel on what would become a perilous voyage home.
Von Hardesty tells the tale of this plane, named the Pacific Clipper. Hardesty is a retired curator from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum and is the author of several books on early and wartime air adventures. He is also currently a member of the ACHS Board of Directors.
The talk will be 7 p.m. Thursday, November 17 in the second floor lecture room of the R. R. Smith Center for History and Art.
The event is free to ACHS members; students are $1 and non-members are $5..
An Event Sponsored By The Augusta County Historical Society