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Want the Time Capsule to Travel to You?
If you're interested in having the time capsule on display in your Long Island school or library, or at a meeting of your Long Islandbased WW II veterans organization, you can! The complete display will be set up by Skylighters Webmaster/Historian Larry Belmont by reservation, who is prepared to lecture on multiple WW II topics, including:
- "The Skylighters: Searchlights and Radar in WW II"
- "The Skylighters and the Night Fighters: Fighter-Searchlight
Cooperation in the ETO"
- "Ack Ack! The Largest Materiél and Manpower Effort of WW II"
- "The AAA Defense of Antwerp: Shooting Down Hitler's Secret Weapons"
- "D-Day: The History Behind Saving Private Ryan"
- "Hell in the Hedgerows: Normandy Before the Breakout"
Displays/lectures can be arranged according to the following general schedule (major holidays are excluded except for Memorial Day and Veterans Day):
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Where? |
Special Requirements? |
Weekdays (Labor Day to Memorial Day) |
Limited to Huntington - Riverhead Area |
Three large tables needed (lectern for lectures) |
Weekends (Labor Day to Memorial Day) |
Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau-Suffolk |
Three large tables needed (lectern for lectures) |
In order to support the activities of the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion Veterans Association [a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation], we request a $100 tax-deductible donation for each site visit (and an additional $100 donation for each lecture)]. For further information about booking a display and/or lecture, contact:
- Larry M. Belmont
- 30 Purick Street
- Blue Point, NY 11715-1120
- E-mail: webmaster@skylighters.org
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