Stay ConnectedWe explore the oral histories of World War II veterans from interviews conducted by your hosts Tony Lupo and Ryan Fairfield.
We play selected clips from these veteran interviews to explore their experiences in their own words with the hosts providing compelling commentary and historical context. Be ready to get some mud on your boots!
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Welcome to the Dale Kooyenga series. Join us as we speak with Lt Col. Dale Kooyenga who in this first episode of two, discusses how 9/11 impacted him, his decision to join the US Army, his experiences in boot camp and his arrival in Iraq at the beginning of the "surge".
Welcome to the final episode of the Marta Warner story. In this episode Marta discusses seeing the first American troops marching into her town, how she was able to get C rations and how her mother had to be denazified. Marta also tells us how she ended up in the USA, how the war affected her perception of government and her observations on charismatic leaders.
Welcome to Episode 4 of the 5 part Marta Warner series. In this episode Marta continues with the odyssey of survival for her family as they flee on a open air train in the winter of 44-45, one of the coldest winters on record in Europe. Starvation, malnutrition and misery becomes all the more intense as her family is caught in the pressure cooker of a country being squeezed from all sides.
Welcome to Episode 3 of the 5 part Marta Warner series, a Hitler Youth and survivor of WWII. In this episode Marta tells of her experience surviving a bombing that hit her school and being nearly trampled. She describes the sights and sounds and sheer fear of allied bombings. Her family was sent to Silesia in eastern Germany where her father was separated from her family and her mother, brother and Marta had to flee the advancing Russians.
Welcome to Episode 2 of the 5 part Marta Warner series, a Hitler Youth student and survivor of WWII. In this episode Marta describes her experience witnessing the chilling effect of Nazi control and the effect it had on her family and neighbors. She also describes the indoctrination that came with being a member of the Hitler Youth which was automatic for 10 years olds. She also discusses the creeping Nazism and incrementalism that eroded the privacy and freedoms of the German citizen without their realization.
Welcome to the Marta Warner series. In this first episode Marta describes the abrupt changes in education that came with the influence of the Nazi government in society. She also describes pushing back on the revisionist history being taught. In 5th grade she was selected to attend a state sponsored school due to her IQ but unless her family could pay for it, the government would fund it and her family would have no say in her education.
Welcome to the final episode of the Ken Thomas series. In this episode we hear about the living conditions for him in the theater as well as the politics behind General Stillwell's forming of a group called Merrill's Marauders.
Welcome to Episode 3 of the four part Ken Thomas series! In this episode, Ken talks about his Odyssey traveling to the China Burma India theater and what typical missions were like for him during the war.
Welcome to Episode 2 of the four part Ken Thomas series. In this episode Mr. Thomas discusses his training and what it was like to fly the P-47 Thunderbolt. We also get some colorful anecdotes from our guest co-hosts TSgt Nick Lasher and Major John Nowakowski of the Oklahoma Air National Guard 138th Tactical Fighter Wing.
Welcome to Episode 1 of the four part Ken Thomas Series. 2nd Lt Thomas was a fighter pilot flying the fabled fighter-bomber P-47 Thunderbolt in the China Burma India Theater against Japanese targets as part of the 88 Fighter Squadron of the 80th Fighter Group. In this episode Ken talks about his efforts to get into the fighter training program and we also introduce our guest co-hosts from the Oklahoma Air National Guard 138th Tactical Fighter Wing.
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