The December 8 presentation is free to the public
From the Eldred WWII Museum,
Lois Lembo and Leon Reed, Authors, historians, retired defense consultant (Lembo), and retired congressional aide (Reed), will speak at the Eldred WWII Museum.
Eldred, PA – Retired defense consultant Lois Lembo and retired congressional aide Leon Reed will speak at the Museum next Sunday.
Lembo and Reed will speak on December 8, 2024, at 1:30 pm in the Museum’s Mitchell Paige Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Lembo and Reed’s speech is titled “The View from the Foxhole: The GI View of the Defense and Liberation of Bastogne,” a title referring to the stories of Sergeant Frank Lembo of the 305th Engineers and 1st Lieutenant Walter Carr of the 318th Infantry Regiment, through their Battle of the Bulge experiences.
Lois Lembo is a retired defense consultant. She specialized in the evaluation of naval war games, manufacturing and supply chain management, Soviet production capabilities, and producibility. She led the project team that produced the White House Critical Technology Report, the DOD Critical Industry Planning Report, and the B-2 bomber producibility study. She is the lead author of “A Combat Engineer with Patton’s Army: The Fight Across Europe with the 80th “Blue Ridge” Division in WWII.”
Leon Reed is a retired congressional aide and history teacher. He was the senior US Senate aide responsible for the Defense Production Act. He is the editor of the magazine of the Battle of the Bulge Association. He is the co-author of three WWII memoirs, including those of Frank Lembo and Walter Carr, principal subjects of Sunday’s talks.
