Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/12/2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Rowley Hall, Marymount University
Categories
The Wright Brothers’ test flights at Fort Myer in Arlington County were an important link in the development of US military aviation. Steve Suddaby, past president of the World War One Historical Association, will discuss this and explain how the crises of the First World War caused the European powers to accelerate the development of the “aeroplane”. He will also describe the impacts of aviation on the war itself.
Steve Suddaby is a four-time winner of the Thornton D. Hooper Award for Excellence in Aviation History. In the last 25 years, Steve has focused his research on the aerial bombing campaigns of WWI. He and his father Allen have published the English translation of the history of French aerial bombing under the title French Strategic and Tactical Bombardment Forces of World War I. Steve is a retired national security analyst.
This presentation is in Rowley Hall, Room G127, NOT the Reinsch Library Auditorium.
DIRECTIONS: Attendees should enter the Marymount University campus at the MAIN ENTRANCE at 2807 N. Glebe Road, pass the guard hut on your right and park in the parking lot behind it. Cross the campus and proceed down the little hill next to the chapel. Rowley Hall is at the base of the hill and the door is on the ground floor across from the handicapped parking. For complete directions to the Main Campus of Marymount University go to http://www.marymount.edu/Home/Contact-us/Locate-us
This program is free and open to the public. It is part of a monthly series of public programs sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and Marymount University’s Department of History and Politics. For more information, please visit www.arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org, Email: info@arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org or call: 703-892-4204.