SATURDAY, February 21, 2015 – At the Nanini Library – 1:30 to 3:00 pm
7300 N Shannon Road, Tucson, AZ (Library phone 520-594-5365)
A special speaking event has been planned on the subject of “Hacking Military Secrets During the Vietnam Era.” This light-hearted presentation about Wes Choc when he was crossing the Pacific in 1966 explains how he used a paper sextant to prove three ships’ courses of travel. With a “map-head predilection” it led him down an unusual path—one that predicted the until-then undisclosed destination of this trio of westbound ships in 1966 (USS Vancouver, USS Thomaston and USS Iwo Jima) that was depicted in greater detail within his book Just Dust, published last year. Wes is able to demonstrate how he did it along with a couple of other Vietnam era stories that will be both intriguing as well as entertaining to anyone who’s been there …or knows someone who was.
There will be plenty of time for questions an answers.