60 YEARS AFTER - PART THREE
The Veterans Speak: Memories from the Pacific Theatre
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A Panel Discussion moderated by
Dr. Stephen Stein
Department of History, University of Memphis
Sponsored by the Friends of the University Libraries
McWherter Library, Room 226
August 17, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Makin Island, Dept. of Special Collections, Univ. Libraries |
Dr. John Lasley Dameron, a noted specialist on Edgar Allan Poe, taught in the Department of English, University of Memphis, for thirty years, retiring in 1991. Dameron entered the U. S. Navy at age 18 and was assigned to the Marines and served as a hospital corpsman and pharmacist's mate at Guadalcanal, Saipan, and Guam. He worked with the wounded and saw the Battle of Iwo Jima, including the raising of the American flag there. Dr. Dameron continues to write in a variety of areas in American literature.
Mr. Howard Lee was born in Boulder, Colorado and grew up in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He entered the U.S. Navy in 1938 and was serving as a Navy photographer when he was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He later became an enlisted pilot and flew antisubmarine aircraft in the Mediterranean Theatre, serving in the only squadron in World War II to use magnetic anomaly detection equipment. He retired in 1960 and lives in Memphis, where he has spoken on many occasions about his experiences at Pearl Harbor and has led the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association Chapter #2.
Dr. Ernest Withers has been a documentary photographer for over half a century and still maintains a studio on Beale Street in downtown Memphis. Among the premier documentary photographers of our time, Dr. Withers provides a compelling social history of the African American experience from the late 1940s onward. He enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1943 and joined the 1319 Engineering Regiment and attended the Army School of Photography at Camp Sutton, North Carolina. He served on the island of Saipan as Battalion Photographer and was the only commercial photographer on the island. The volume, Pictures Tell the Story: Ernest C. Withers Reflections In History (Chrysler Museum of Art, 2000) provides an overview of his work.
The public is encouraged to attend this free program.
For more information, please call Kay Kroboth (901-678-2209) or Tom Mendina (678-4310)
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