AFA Gabriel Chapter Notification - Cold War Museum Presentation

When

Sunday, March 15, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
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Where

Old Bust Head Brewing Company
7134 Farm Station Road
Warrenton, VA 20187

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Contact

Mike Winters
AFA Gabriel Chapter #433
703-409-7474
va433.gabriel@afa.org

Air Force Association

Gabriel Chapter #433
Notification

CANCELED

Cold War Museum Presentation

Colonel G.H. "Hork" Dimon, Colonel USAF (Ret)

"In the Shadows: The Secret, Intense Struggle to Mount a Second Berlin Airlift in 1961"

& Cold War Museum Tour

March 15, 2020

This event has been CANCELED. It has been rescheduled to May 17th.

The AFA Gabriel Chapter wants to let you know about a presentation at our AFA Community Partner, the Cold War Museum. The guest speaker is Colonel G.H. Hork" Dimon, Colonel, USAF (Ret), who was an eyewitness and will speak about the Second Berlin Airlift of 1961.

Have you ever heard of the "The Secord Berlin Aiirlift"-- a time when preparations for which caused the Cold War to grow hot, Americans to be killed, and aircraft and equipment to be blown up? Probably not, for it occurred in the shadows as all eyes were focused on the Autumn 1961 crisis when the Berlin Wall went up. Also probably not because the unadvertised Soviet plans for another Berlin blockade--and the backbreaking effort to prevent it--never made the news then, and, indeed, it it hard to find any record of that effort today.

Since the means for defeating the well-known blockade of Berlin in 1948-1949 would no longer work, this is the story of a small group of people, largely civil engineers, who endured seven-day workweeks of intense, secret labor and dangerous circumstances to determine a solution, and, then, in just four months time, design, built, test, transport to Germany, and install a means to prevent such a blockade. This was an intense effort with a top-level priority for both the US and the USSR, with the latter taking extreme actions to prevent our success.

Colonel Dimon was born in New York City and grew up 20 miles north of the city in Crestwood, NY. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1952 at a 2nd Lt in the Air Force. After pilot training, he served as a jet fighter-interceptor pilot in Iceland and Northern Maine. (He flew the nation's first jet fighter-interceptor as well as the nation's first fighter plane armed with rockets instead of guns). After obtained a masters degree in engineering in 1958, he served as an engineer at the Air Force's Rome Air Development Center in Rome, NY, where he had experiences he'll tell us about. For more information about him and this lecture, see the link below.

To Register for this event, and obtain more information: To Register -- In the Shadows

The museum has requested that AFA members SIGN UP for tickets IN ADVANCE, so that the museum can plan for the number of attendees with Old Bust Head.

The timeline is:

* 1330-1400 - Participants arrive; they may get their beer or other drink at this time.

* 1400-1410 - Jason Hall, Executive Director of the Cold War Museum, introduces the Museum, then Hork Dimon.

* 1410 -1530 - Hork presents on the Second Berlin Airlift.

* 1530-1600 - Q&A opportunity for the audience.

* 1600-1700 - The Museum (next door) will be open for event participants, with staff providing a tour for those interested.

The cost is $35, including the presentation; a $7 coupon toward a craft beer draft, Kombucha, or other drink; a $10 contribution to the Cold War Museum; and special access to the Museum (next door) for the events participants following the presentation. Tickets at the door, if available, will be $45.

For the kids, the appropriate drinks will be available.

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