OCT 2023

We had a very busy month of presentations. I had to write edit and arrange the photo lecture Camp Can-Do-It and Cape Cod Commandos for the Friends of the Cotuit Library. It was a great success and was sold out. It was a lot of work and I need to find other venues to present the work. I any of our readers have any ideas please get back to me. I was then able to put the finishing touches on our Halloween themed lecture Bizarre & Eerie Events in War. This lecture was work but a lot of fun. It almost wrote itself. Mark and I attended the wonderful Stand Down for Veterans in Hyannis event. We made lots of contacts which should pay off down the road. Please share our newsletter with like minded people and they can sign up for their own subscription using the button below.

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author's inspirational photo

Can-Do-It crowd

Our monthly meetings are still really helpful in getting momentum going for our growth. If you like our newsletter please donate $3.00 using our QR code. Don't be a ghost reader! Thanks to Cindy L. for her generous donation from last newsletter. You can also donate by going to any Cape Cod Five Bank and donate directly.

I got a lot of use out of my Halloween Hawaiian shirt. We did talks in Falmouth, Yarmouth, Harwich and Waquoit. In presenting Mark notice I was running too long. I had to take out the Giant Squid attack on the HMS. Britannia survivors and one Demon story. The lecture is now in the can for next year. Hopefully we will get more venues by asking around earlier. I tell the story of the only successful bat bomb attack. I picked up a bat at Michaels. It was all black so I painted it.

We sold some of our wicked cool photos. One for $10.00 or three for $20.00. The photos will be for sale at any event we are at. T-shirt design is a work in progress.

The DUKW painting for Falmouth still coming along.

We had our first Harwich Community lecture. I think it will be the start of a beautiful friendship.

Mark's lecture brochure was extremely popular. We went through our first order very quickly. We made a much larger second order; which also lowers the cost per brochure.

Dear readers, in our lecture Washburn at War we talk about the foil instant coffee packets. Does anyone have some they could donate for our display table during the lecture?

We are in desperate need of a permanent storage facility.

CCMM meetings are on the third Thursday of the month at 1:00PM at the Parish Hall of the Waquoit Congregational Church route 28 and Parson's Lane East Falmouth. If you want to become a volunteer come at one. If you just want to share something of interest to the CCMM you are welcome to visit us at 2:00PM!

OCTOBER 19TH 1:00PM

NOVEMBER 16TH 1:00PM

DECEMBER 7TH 1:00PM *

* The December meeting is early to avoid the Christmas Holiday*

THE 26th YANKEE DIVISION IN WWII

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7th 10:30AM

MASHPEE MENS CLUB

MASHPEE SENIOR CENTER

The hour long photo/lecture starts with the pre-war activation of the Division. Then we go over 26th's participation in the Carolina Maneuvers. After the Pearl Harbor attack the 26th was put to use in coastal defense. The Division was then sent to the Tennessee Maneuvers. Finally the Yankee Division was deployed to Europe just before the Battle of Bulge.

We chronicle the heavy fighting during the winter to the rapid pursuit of the crumbling Nazi empire in the spring of 1945.

WASHBURN AT WAR

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11TH 2:00PM

FALMOUTH MUSEUM ON THE GREEN

CULTURAL CENTER

65 PALMER AVE FALMOUTH

This lecture will appeal to anyone interested in the goings on here on the Cape during WWII.

We cover the big stories like visits to Washburn by General George S. Patton and heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis. There are the small stories about children scouring the shores of Waquoit bay looking for discarded foil packets of instant coffee which their mother's craved because coffee was rationed. We have lonely soldiers ordered to release their captured chipmunks they kept as pets. Honor Veterans Day by learning a little bit about the Military activities that went on here.

This is a joint fundraiser for the FMOG and the CCMM. Tickets are $20.00 for the general public $10.00 for Museum Members. See link below:

Bizarre & Eerie Events in War Monday Sept 30th 2024 Tales of Cape Cod

Check out our facebook page for daily post from October of 1943. Pistol Packing Mama was the #1 song. German comedic actor Robert Dorsey was overheard making fun of the Nazi war effort. A search of his apartment reveled an unsent letter criticizing continuing the war. He was executed. A German U-Boat 537 set up an automated weather station in Labrador, the only armed landing in North America. Oct. 24th Leonard Siffleet 27 and Aussie Commando was beheaded. Oct 28th the Philadelphia experiment supposedly occured involving the USS Eldridge. We also do posts from The Camp Edwards News from the Gary Soares Collection.



ESTER WILLIAM OCT. 1943

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We will have a display table at this event! We hope to have re-enactors too! Join us wont you!

IF YOU CAN'T JOIN US IN FALMOUTH VETERANS DAY:

CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE TO WATCH THE LECTURE

We presented the Washburn at War Lecture at the Waquoit Bay Yacht Club. It was so cool to give the lecture in building commandeered by the Amphibians for dances and by the Red Cross for dances where local Gals would dance with wounded soldiers learning to dance with one leg etc. If those rafters could talk!

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I need a better picture of the USCG Cutter Dione # 107. There was a crewman that had a demonic encounter on her and his tale is part of the Bizarre & Eerie Events in War lecture.

One of the ways we are trying to keep in the publics eye is with our photo lectures. Please suggest one of our lectures to any group that you know of that would appreciate the topic. DON'T VISIT WEBSITE, ITS UNDER REPAIR

CAPE COD THE CRADLE OF INVASION

This talk covers how Cape Cod became the original home of the Engineer Amphibious Command and the Amphibious Training Command. We talk about the units that trained here and their exploits overseas. Some of the units were the the 1st ESB(Engineer Special Brigade), the 2nd ESB, 3rd and 4th ESB, 1st Infantry Division, the 45th and 36th Infantry Divisions. !NEW! We will go over the Cotuit message in a bottle left by German P.O.W.s.

THE 26th YANKEE DIVISION IN WWII

The hour long photo/lecture starts with the pre-war activation of the Division. Then we go over 26th's participation in the Carolina Maneuvers. After the Pearl Harbor attack the 26th was put to use in coastal defense. The Division was then sent to the Tennessee Maneuvers. Finally the Yankee Division was deployed to Europe just before the Battle of Bulge.

We chronicle the heavy fighting during the winter to the rapid pursuit of the crumbling Nazi empire in the spring of 1945.

D-DAY AND IT'S TIES TO CAPE COD

We go over the most pivotable battle in history and the amazing connection to Cape Cod. This newly revised photo lecture expounds on how the training and personnel here on the Cape went on to dramatically effect the events of June 6, 1944

THE 26th YANKEE DIVISION IN THE GREAT WAR.

We go over the formation and training of New England's own Infantry Division. It's deployment and actions in France. We tell the big picture, augmented with personal stories. 

Special appearance by the YD's own Sgt. Stubby!

THE USE OF ANIMALS IN WWI

This bizarrely fascinating tale, informs the attendee of the expected and surprising uses of animals during the Great War. Animals great and small were put to work, from the lowly slug to the mighty elephant. Special appearance by the Cape Cod Military Museum's mascot Sgt. Stubby! Not for small children. 

THE BATTLE FOR IWO JIMA

We go over one of the most brutal battles of WWII for this strategic important Pacific Island.

We will decipher who was actually in the most famous photograph of all time, the flag raising on mount Suribachi. Not for sensitive persons or children. 

This lecture goes over the surreal and supernatural occurrences during wartime. We go over the only successful bat bombing and the largest documented crocodile attack in history.

Ghosts appear and disappear and come back in reincarnation. There are zombies, demons and werewolves. We even have lions, tigers, and bears, oh my! All stories are actual as far as can be ascertained, no myths or hoaxes.

*NOT FOR CHILDREN*