The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force presents The Herman Lodinger Memorial Lecture series, featuring Kimberly Guise presenting “Pride and Peril: Jewish American POWS in Europe”, Thursday, May 12^th at 6:00PM.  Ms. Guise is the Senior Curator and Director for Curatorial Affairs at the National WWII Museum. She holds a BA in German and Judaic Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and specializes in the American prisoner of war experience in World War II. She’s been working at the National World War II Museum since 2008. 

This lecture is made possible through the Herman Lodinger Endowment Fund, established for the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force by a gift from Mr. Lodinger’s daughter and son-in-law, Holly, and Paul Mandelkern. Second Lieutenant Herman Lodinger was a lead bombardier on a B-24 heavy bomber assigned to the 389^th Bomb Group. His plane was shot down in July 1944, and he was captured by the Germans and held prisoner until his 1945 liberation.