On Monday, April 17, CP U.S. History will be welcoming a guest speaker on World War II, John H. Bradley. Mr. Bradley, a civilian prisoner of war of the Japanese, graduate of West Point, veteran of the Vietnam War, and retired U.S. Army officer holds a master’s degree in history from Rice University and has taught military history at West Point.
He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Mr. Bradley has taught courses in U.S. History, Military History, World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War at the University of Houston-Downtown and at the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies. He is principal author of The Second World War: Asia and Pacific and its accompanying atlas.
He also published the story of an American Cavalry officer who perished in captivity, Remind me to Tell You: A History of Major Harry J. Fleeger and His Friends, POWs of the Japanese, has written or co-authored several memoirs of veterans of World War II, and McArthur Moon, an enriched dual memoir of his mother’s and his own experiences in Japanese internment camp of Santo Tomas.
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