Pike County All Wars Museum will be hosting their first Summer Speaker Series on Sunday, July 16 at 2 p.m.

Their first speaker of the Summer will be Mr. Gene E. Salecker! Gene will be talking about his book The Second Pearl Harbor, The West Loch Disaster.

Here is a preview of his book:

“The first explosion came as a complete surprise to everyone around Pearl Harbor. The Sunday had started out clear and bright, but the sky quickly darkened as great clouds of thick black smoke rose high above the burning ships.
​Fuel oil spilled atop the water and caught fire, sending giant licks of flame spreading out across the surface. In an instant, over two dozen ships were in danger. Only the quick actions of their captains and crews could save them.”

“It was not December 7, 1941, but May 21, 1944, and it was not the Japanese that set off the first explosion.”