Events for September 17, 2024

Location – Ocean County Historical Society, 26 Hadley Avenue, Toms River, NJ Sunday, April 16th, 2023, at 2:00 PM, “Project Paperclips Brings German Scientists to NJ,” by Fred Carl In the fall of 1944, the United States and its allies launched a secret mission code-named Operation Paperclip. The aim was to find and preserve German weapons, including biological and chemical agents, but American scientific intelligence officers quickly realized the weapons themselves were not enough. They decided the United States needed to bring German scientists themselves to the U.S. Thus began a mission to recruit top German doctors, physicists and chemists — including the famous Wernher von Braun, who went on to design the rockets that took man to the moon. See more at: https://www.npr.org/2014/02/15/275877755/the- secret-operation-to-bring-Nazi-scientists-to-America. Few know that some of these scientific personnel made their way right here to NJ. Join us as Fred Carl tells the tale. Fred Carl received his B.S. in Science Education and his M.S. in Computer Science from Monmouth University. He also has Teaching Certificates in Comprehensive Science and Computer Science. Carl began the effort to save Camp Evans in Wall Township by transforming it into a Science Education Center in March of 1993 when [...]