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36 minutes
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Engelsk
USA
28 episoder
siden 10. januar 2025
episodic

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Donald Chase understood that freedom isn’t free.  He defended his country in two wars, WW II and the Korean war, and in doing so received 4 purple hears and 2 bronze stars.  In both wars, soldiers often wished to receive a “million dollar wound” – a battlefield injury that would send the soldier ba…

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A star athlete first at Aspinwall High School then at Waynesburg College in Pennsylvania, Richard V. Morgan felt the call to duty when his country was attacked at Pearl Harbor and joined the Marines.  Morgan fought in some of the Pacific’s bloodiest battles at Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian Islands.  A…
Hattie Brantley never stopped tending to wounded GIs whether in the jungles of the Bataan peninsula, in the tunnels of Corregidor, or during her long imprisonment at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp.  As a POW for nearly three years, she didn’t let starvation, disease, lack of medical supplies, or t…
Sick with malaria, on a 150-200 mile, three week forced march from one German POW camp to another, Edgar Kuhlow heard one German guard talking about him to another guard - Daah blibt heea in Deutschland leigen (He is going to stay laying here in Germany).  Having already survived brutal combat at A…
Jim Dorris displayed an equal measure of courage and compassion in WW 2.  His deep Catholic faith provided him with a moral compass that guided him through combat at the Battle of the Bulge, Ingolsheim, Wurzburg, Schweinfurt, and Furth.  He was a true light in the darkness of WW 2 resisting sensele…
Jim Dorris displayed an equal measure of courage and compassion in WW 2.  His deep Catholic faith provided him with a moral compass that guided him through combat at the Battle of the Bulge, Ingolsheim, Wurzburg, Schweinfurt, and Furth.  He was a true light in the darkness of WW 2 resisting sensele…
As a Jewish American, Murray Shapiro couldn’t wait to volunteer in WW 2.  He was well aware of the Nuremberg Laws and the racist treatment Jewish people received in Germany.  He lost his spot in officer school though because he objected to the racist views his Major Carvell held towards black peopl…
Colonel Lloyd G. Huggins landed on Omaha Beach three weeks after D-Day as the replacement officer for Easy Company’s Infantry Regiment.  They were in continuous combat for nearly one year fighting through France, the Siegfried Line, the Hurtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, across the Remagen Br…
Following the unconditional surrender of Germany on VE Day and the unconditional surrender of Japan three months later on VJ Day, spontaneous celebrations swept across the US with tinker tape parades, dancing and singing.  In Times Square, an estimated two million people gathered to celebrate.  But…
When Germany unconditionally surrendered and Victory in Europe or VE Day was announced on May 8, 1945, American GIs were in a mood to celebrate.  For Russell Darks in France and Charlie Toole in London, it was an unforgettable night of celebrations.  But, in Germany, Murray Shapiro found that Germa…
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