PIKE COUNTY, Il. — The Pike County All Wars Museum located at 320 N Illinois St, Pittsfield, IL, will be hosting their first Summer Speaker Series on July 16th at 2 o’clock. Our 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.
“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.”
Join us at the Pike County All Wars Museum on July 16th at 2 o’clock as our guest Gene E. Salecker discusses a terrible event in America’s WWII history that was concealed from the public for seventy years.