Aviation Historian, James Coulthart, will be presenting this program on Friday October 9 at 6:00pm. Open to teens through adult.
Taken from research conducted about WW2, this is a tale of a wide variety of relatively obscure innovations and technologies which helped turn the tide toward victory in 1945. Covered in this presentation include: high octane aircraft fuel, variable pitch propellers, Quonset huts, proximity fuses, Marston pierced steel mats, Higgins landing craft, liberty and victory ships, microwave radar, large scale support mechanisms for keep Americans working on the nation’s assembly lines. Additional items will be covered.
