Lecture Series - National Museum of the USAF
Summary: The Lecture Series features an exciting array of speakers who impart a diversity of perspectives on USAF heritage. Lecturers include active duty or retired military members, specialists in research, development and technology, and historians and authors.
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Podcasts:
Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell discusses the Korean War, which saw the first and largest jet-versus-jet fighter conflict of all time. Despite many disadvantages, American pilots won an overwhelming victory, which was critical in the outcome of the war.
Lt. Col. (Ret.) John Bessette, who flew as a navigator and served in air refueling, airlift and gunship assignments, presents “Covert Air Reconnaissance in Europe: USAFE Operations, 1946-1990.”
Author and aviation artist Paul Jacobs examines the Battle of Britain from three perspectives -- historical, aviation technology development and air tactics evolution.
Former Wild Weasel Electronic Warfare Officer Col. (Ret.) Mike Gilroy discusses the challenges and opportunities facing Weasel and Strike crews at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in the mid-1960s.
Author and retired Lt. Col. George A. Larson discusses information from his latest book, "The Superfortress Final Glory: The Korean Air War, The Cold War's First Aerial Combat."
Air University professor Dr. S. Mike Pavelec discusses the three competing programs -- German, British and American -- to develop jet aircraft technology during World War II.
Former Air Force pilot and FBI agent Taylor Eubank illustrates the Vietnam reconnaissance experience from high above in the midst of surface-to-air missile (SAM) barrages and anti-aircraft flak traps and through perilous nighttime photo missions.
Rocketplane Global Vice President and Chief Test Pilot Paul Metz discusses his more than 37 years and 7,000 flying hours in over 70 different types of aircraft.
Dr. Conrad C. Crane, Director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute, discusses how the Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, but far from the type of conflict it expected or wanted to fight.
World record setting pilot Lt. Col. (Ret.) Dick Rutan discusses his Air Force service, specifically his time as a forward air controller during the Southeast Asia War.
Air War College professor Dr. Xiaoming Zhang discusses the Chinese perspective of the air war in Korea.
Internationally-recognized aerospace historian Dr. Richard P. Hallion discusses America’s first jet-age air war.
Former enemy pilots Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dan Cherry and Mr. Nguyen Hong My will discuss Cherry’s book “My Enemy...My Friend.”
British author Chris Pocock discusses the “Black Bats” and CIA spy flights over China from Taiwan from 1951-1969.
Chief Master Sgt. Ramon Colon-Lopez, who in 2007 was one of six airmen to be awarded the first Air Force Combat Action Medal, discuss the Global War on Terror from the perspective of a special tactics pararescueman.