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,E D U C A T I O NJames Muller's past experience with the Archives was aided by the endless assistance and courtesy offered byArchives Director Allen Packwood and his staff. Mr. Packwood was truly the lynchpin in our teachers’research experience. After their training and their work in the files, teachers earned an Archives Centre ------Reader’s Card, entitling them to return for further research in the future. Joining Muller and Packwood werelecturers including Kevin Theakston, University of Leeds; Richard Overy, University of Exeter; and author, journalistand broadcaster Max Hastings. Addressing the wartime relationship between Churchill and FranklinRoosevelt were David Woolner of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Institute; Piers Brendon, Churchill biographer andformer Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre; and Celia Sandys, Sir Winston Churchill’s granddaughter and aChurchill Centre Trustee. The vast array of site visits included Bletchley Park Cryptology Museum, Sir Winston’sbirthplace Blenheim Palace, his country home Chartwell, and his boyhood school Harrow. In London we visitedthe Houses of Parliament, Westminster Hall, the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum.Left: Director Allen Packwood began by offering teachers a personal tour of the massive Churchill Archives Centre, the heart of Churchill researchworldwide. Right: Eileen Bach, who teaches in Shanghai, China, developed a PowerPoint presentation on the Churchill Archives Centre, and shared itwith participants and organizers on our Google Group site, which began operating in April and will continue indefinitely.Above: Our first outing was to the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Madingley, outside Cambridge, sited on 30.5 acres donated by CambridgeUniversity. The Cemetery contains the remains of 3812 World War II American military dead; 5127 additional names are recorded on the Tabletsof the Missing, where rosettes mark names of those personnel since recovered and identified. Most of them died in the Battle of the Atlantic or in thestrategic bombardment of Germany. Right: Bob Faubel and Genie Burke assist our outstanding guide, Arthur Brooks, in lowering the flag at Taps.FINEST HOUR 149 / 46