13th Consecutive Battle of Midway Dining Out Remembrance

The 13th consecutive Battle of Midway Dining Out remembrance was held in June in the ballroom of the historic 23,000-acre former five-star resort Hotel Del Monte, now part of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The chapter, the Navy League Monterey Council and the Naval Order of the United States collaborated with the Naval Support Activity Monterey to attract graduate students, NPS faculty, mayors, two congressional candidates, council members and community members from Monterey, Santa Cruz and Silicon Valley, the University of California Santa Cruz, Stanford University, California State University Monterey Bay and the Defense Language Institute to the event. The 74th anniversary theme selected was Aleutian Islands 1942-43, and guest of honor World War II veteran Seaman 1st Class David Hendrickson, USCG, provided a talk on Japanese activities. NPS Naval War College professor Jonathan Czarnecki spoke about the U.S. defense of the Aleutians during World War II.

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