Vineyarders including Tom Hale and Ted Morgan will discuss their wartime experiences at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Saturday, March 20 at 3 p.m. in connection with the museum’s ongoing exhibit, Those Who Serve: Martha’s Vineyard and World War II.
Mr. Hale was an ambulance driver in the American Field Service with the British 8th Army, and he will speak of the horrors he witnessed at the liberation of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.
Mr. Morgan will share his experience as a medic with the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment and the 82nd Airborne Division. He fought in six battle campaigns that included combat and parachute jumps into Normandy as part of the D-Day operations, Italy, Sicily, Holland and the Battle of the Bulge.
The talk, called Voices of World War II, is part of the museum’s spring lecture series. Admission is $8 for members and $12 for nonmembers. It will take place in the museum library, next door to the Pease House galleries where the exhibit, Those Who Serve, Part I, currently features the oral histories, photographs, and artifacts from 10 people of the Vineyard who experienced the war years at home and overseas.
A second part of the exhibit will open in the Pease House galleries May 28.
For details, call 508-627-4441.
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