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The Lecture Series features an exciting array of speakers who impart a diversity of perspectives on USAF heritage. Lecturers include active duty or retired military members, specialists in research, development and technology, and historians and authors.
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![Museum Lecture Series 05: Reflections on Operation Babylift]()
Museum Lecture Series 05: Reflections on Operation Babylift
11/09/2015Col. Regina Aune, Col. (Ret.) Bud Traynor and CMSgt. (Ret.) Ray Snedegar will recount their experience on board a C-5 that crash-landed in 1975.
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![Museum Lecture Series 04: Integration of the Air Force: The Early Years]()
Museum Lecture Series 04: Integration of the Air Force: The Early Years
11/09/2015Two men who served with the famed Tuskegee Airmen discuss the Air Force between 1941 and 1949.
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![Museum Lecture Series 03: American Raiders: The Race to Capture the Luftwaffes Secrets]()
Museum Lecture Series 03: American Raiders: The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe's Secrets
11/09/2015German immigrant and retired Air Force colonel Wolfgang Samuel uses official Air Force records and survivors' interviews to tell the story of the disarmament of the once mighty German Luftwaffe and to discuss Operation Lusty.
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![Museum Lecture Series 01: Early Women Pilots in World War II in the Ferrying Division]()
Museum Lecture Series 01: Early Women Pilots in World War II in the Ferrying Division
11/09/2015One of only 25 women who qualified as pilots for the original Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, Florene Miller Watson discusses her experiences before, during and after World War II. She served as a flight instructor and taught men to fly in the War Training Program in Texas and was later made the commanding officer over the WAFS-WASPs stationed at Love Field, Texas. When WWII was finally over, Watson had flown every fighter, cargo plane, bomber and training aircraft in the Air Corps inventory.
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![Museum Lecture Series 02: The Unthinkable, the Unimaginable Happened: An F-117 was Shot Down in Combat]()
Museum Lecture Series 02: The Unthinkable, the Unimaginable Happened: An F-117 was Shot Down in Combat
11/09/2015Lt. Col. Dale Zelko reflects on his experience as the only stealth fighter mission shot down during combat and his accomplishment and fortitude in an against-all-odds scenario.
