News Release

Memorial Day Film at Indiana Dunes Visitor Center 2018

Date: May 25, 2018

INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Join staff and visitors on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, at 2:00 pm at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Visitor Center as we honor those who died while serving our country.
 
We will show the documentary film Heroes on Deck in the Visitor Center’s auditorium. The film chronicles the role that Chicago and Lake Michigan played in the training of over 15,000 World War II Navy Pilots. The story includes how the pilots were trained and the recovery of some of the over 100 aircraft that ended up at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
 
The Indiana Dunes Visitor Center is located at 1215 North State Road 49, about one mile north of Interstate 94. For more information on this or other programs at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, call 219-395-1882 or visit our website at www.nps.gov/indu and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/IndianaDunesNL.
 
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The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is one of 417 units of the National Park System ranging from Yellowstone to the Statue of Liberty. Located in Northwest Indiana, the park includes 15 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline and 15,000 acres of biodiverse beaches, woods, prairies, and marshes. Up to 2 million visitors come to the Indiana Dunes each year. Check our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/IndianaDunesNL.