In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of D-Day, the seventh annual Eisenhower Seminar will focus on Operation Overlord, its Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Allied soldiers who struggled to gain a foothold on the beaches of Normandy. Sharing their perspectives and recounting their experiences will be a distinguished panel of historians and veterans.

The program will feature:
Dr. Williamson Murray, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Defense Analysis and former Yale history professor, co-author of A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, 1937 - 1945.
Lecture topic: A War to Be Won

Paul Fussell, WWII veteran and author of The Boy's Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944 - 45 and The Great War and Modern Memory which won the National Book Award.
Lecture topic: Representation of World War II

David Eisenhower, the General's grandson, and author of Eisenhower: At War.
Lecture topic: Eisenhower's Army

Forrest Guth, D-Day veteran, Co. E, 506th Parachute Infantry Reg., 101st Airborne Div. His unit was featured in Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers.

Leonard Lomell, D-Day veteran, Co. D, 2nd Ranger Battalion. Participated in the assault on Pointe Du Hoc.

John Slaughter, D-Day veteran, Co. D, 116th Reg., 29th Infantry Div. Landed on Omaha Beach, June 6.
Lecture topics: Veterans Remember D-Day

Dr. Michael Birkner, Professor and Chair, Dept. of History, Gettysburg College will moderate the concluding panel discussion

The Seminar will begin at 8:30 a.m. with registration and booksigning and conclude at 4:00 p.m. Registration fee is $25.00 (Student rate: $12.50). Make checks payable to Eisenhower Seminar, Eastern National. Mail to: Eisenhower Seminar, Eisenhower National Historic Site, 250 Eisenower Farm Lane, Gettysburg, PA 17325. For additional information call the park office at 717-338-9114.

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