WASHBURN AT WAR:

Saturday, November 11 at 2pm

$20 Non Member/$10 Members, please pre-register as space is limited

The lecture will appeal to anyone interested in the goings on during World War Two on the Cape. We cover the big stories, visits to Washburn by Gen. Patton and Heavy Weight, Champ Joe Louis. There are small stories, like kids combing the shoreline for discarded Army foil packets of instant coffee, which their mothers craved because of rationing and lonely soldiers being ordered to release chipmunks they had captured and tried to make pets out of! Join us and you will learn something guaranteed! The lecture is a joint fundraiser for the Falmouth Museum on the Green and the Cape Cod Military Museum.

Joe Yukna Bio:

My interest in the Military history of the Cape started when I worked as a Department of Defense Police Officer on Camp Edwards/Otis ANGB in the late 1980’s. Driving around the base and seeing all the abandoned buildings made me wonder what went on here. I put out a call to get a museum going on Cape Cod.  Jerry Ellis answered that call. We had secured two barracks and six surrounding acres on Camp Edwards then an open base. September 11th ended that phase of the Military Museum.  After a hiatus we have been working on getting a venue to tell our amazing story. We have been collecting artifacts, and information on military activities here on the Cape and the overseas activities of units that trained here. We have helped out various historical societies with military displays. We offer a series of photo lectures to educate the public and promote the museum. After leaving the D.O.D. Police force, I started my own dog training business and am better known as Joe the Dogman. I am the son of a WWII /Korean War Navy Veteran and the Father of an Army War on Terror Veteran.

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