CCVMM Speaker Series: Dec 14 2024, WWII talk with Erik Brun Logo
  • Central Coast Veterans Museum 2025 Speaker Series

    Presents:
  • "No mama, No papa, No Uncle Sam: Battling Bastards of Bataan, WWII"

     

    Saturday, December 14, 2024

    11:00 am

    Guest Speaker: Erik F. Brun
    Lieutenant Colonel, USA Retired; Historian

    Erik Brun, Lt Col US Retired, completed a thirty year career as an Army Logistics Officer serving as a battalion commander and Group Support Operations Officer (SOO). He holds an MBA and Masters Degree in Public History focused on researching the battalion's Saga. Erik served as the president of the 99th Infantry Battalion Education Foundation from 2014 - 2023. 

    His research has focused on the history of American Army units composed of "others", collected by race, ethnicity or nationality. He is a co-editor of a recent book: The Viking Battalion: Norwegian American Ski Troops in World War II.

  • Date:

    Saturday, December 14th

    Time:

    11:00 am - Presentation begins (45min)

    The museum is open from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm on Saturdays with free admission. 

    Location:

    Central Coast Veterans Museum
    801 Grand Avenue, Suite 102
    San Luis Obispo, 93401

    *Our museum is located in the basement level of the SLO Vets Hall with entrance doors to the museum around the back of the brick building, next to the "Camo Cow."


    Hosting Organziation: 
    Central Coast Veterans Memorial Museum (CCVMM)

    • This history presentation is free to the public; suggested $5 donation to CCVMM at the door.

     

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  • Questions? Please contact CCVMM: (805) 543-1763 or by email at ccvmm.programs@gmail.com

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