Battle of Britain Topic of Free Speakers Night

On Monday, May 5 at 7pm, the Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum's free Aviation Speaker Series presents  Group Captain Adrian Frost  and Guy Walsh with a program on the Battle of Britain. The Battle of Britain is  the World War II  air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. This war event was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. Frost is a Tornado GR1/4 Navigator/WSO/EW Instructor /Squadron Commander and has enjoyed a wide  ranging operational, policy and research background spanning nearly a quarter of a century of collaborative operations with the US and other key allies. He was the military officer for the UK’s first Cyber Security Strategy and was the ‘airman’ on the team which put together the UK’s 2010 Strategic Defense and Security Review. Walsh has a distinguished military career of thirty-one years of service in the United States Air Force and the Air National Guard where he has commanded at the squadron, group and wing levels. He served as the 175th Wing Commander, Maryland Air National Guard from 2002 thru 2009. In 2009-2010, Brigadier General Walsh commanded the 451st Air Expeditionary Wing in Kandahar, Afghanistan, becoming the first Air National Guard general officer to command an active duty air expeditionary wing in combat. Brigadier General Walsh retired in 2010 having flown more than 4,500 hours in numerous tactical aircraft including the A-10 Thunderbolt II, F-4 Phantom, and C-130J Super Hercules. This free event  takes place at the Lockheed Martin Administrative Building auditorium on the Lockheed Martin campus, 2323 Eastern Blvd in Middle River. A photo ID is required for admission to the program. For additional information call 410-682-6122 or visit www.mdairmuseum.org