WWII in the Gulf of Mexico is Focus of June 30 Talk at UNO
6/22/2009
(June 22, 2009, New Orleans, La.) - The threat of German U-boats in the Gulf of Mexico during World War II will be the topic of a University of New Orleans Eisenhower Center for American Studies Roundtable featuring C.J. Christ, U.S. Air Force veteran and author of WWII in the Gulf of Mexico, on Tuesday, June 30 at 6:30 p.m. in Room 103 of the Bicentennial Education Center on the Lakefront Campus.
Christ, who has written more than 100 articles, trained at the multi-engine school at Vance Air Force Base and completed heavy bombardment training at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, in 1951. He served a tour flying B-29s over North Korea before earning an English degree from McNeese State University. A native of Eunice, he founded Houma Aviation which operated at the Houma airport for 25 years. He is also a licensed offshore master of sail and power vessels.
Christ has been a member of the Verband Deutscher U-Bootfahrer, an organization of German submarine veterans, since 1981.
For more information on the UNO Eisenhower Center for American Studies, visit http://ikecenter.uno.edu/.
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