VETERAN’S DAY EVENING

Lancaster City Hall Council Chambers

7:00 PM

– Wednesday, November 11, 7:00 p.m. Lancaster, City Hall Council Chambers. In honor and recognition of Veterans the Society is sponsoring a presentation by Mike Mair author of the book, “Oil, fire, and Fate: The Sinking of the USS Mississinewa (AO 59) in WWII by Japan’s Secret Weapon”. The book recounts the November 20, 1944 event when a Japanese-manned suicide torpedo sunk the tanker ship Mississinewa on which his father was assigned as a Navy fire-man second class, the research that was involved in this project as well as the journey made by his father following the explosion. Mair’s presentation was part of the Moving Wall event in Platteville this past July.