MacArthur Week Programs: June 5, 2023
June
War Memorial Center: Memorial Hall, 3rd floor
8:30 a.m. Breakfast Program
“Prime Minister Curtin and the Australian Labor Movement”
Sponsored by Milwaukee Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO
- VCRT & WMC Board Member, Michael Balistriere presiding
- Presenter: Professor Emeritus David Black, Curtin University, Perth, West Australia.
- Panel: Gwen Sheppard, VCRT & WMC Board Member; Chair; Clair Zellner, VCRT; Rick Badger, Executive Director, District Council 40, AFSCME; Sheila Cochran, CEO, Milwaukee Area Labor Council; Phil Neuenfeldt, President, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
10:30 a.m. “The MacArthur-Curtin Military and Diplomatic Alliance in Australia – 1941-45 - How The War Was Won”
- David Black, Perth, West Australia
Adjournment
1:00 p.m. “The Philippines: Land and Sea – WWII in the Pacific”
Sponsored by the Filipino American community of Greater Milwaukee with Creamheld Pepito presiding
1:05 p.m. “The Evolving Relationship Between The Philippines and The United States”
- The Honorable Romulo Victor Israel, Deputy Consul, Philippines Consulate – Chicago
1:10 p.m. “The MacArthurs in the Philippines to Corregidor”
1:45 p.m. “U.S. Navy & Marines Fighting with Valor as Infantry at Bataan & Corregidor – Early 1942 in The Philippines”
- Introduction by Navy League President Tom Buck
- John Gordon, Author, “Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marines Corps’ Desperate Defense of the Philippines”
2:20 p.m. “Behind Enemy Lines – Filipino & American Guerrilla Activity After Corregidor Until Liberation By Macarthur”
- Cream Pepito and James Zobel.
2:45 p.m. “Battle of Leyte Gulf – What Happened As The Liberation Of The Philippines Commenced”
- Introduction by Navy League President Tom Buck
- Dr. Louis DiMarco, John Gordon, Eric Wertheim and Sherman Fleek
3:15 p.m. Question and Answer/Adjourn