Don’t miss the first Coffee & Conversation of 2026 about the landing at Normandy!
This coming January 10 at 10am, Bruce Kirschner will discuss his father’s service as a Mess Sergeant in the U.S. Army’s Fourth Infantry (Ivy) Division, the first Allied unit to land on the beaches of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. Arthur Kirschner went into the Army nearly a year before Pearl Harbor and served until the war’s end in Europe. His participation included the Ivy Division’s liberation of Paris, the Hurtgen Forest campaign, and the Battle of the Bulge.


