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 final episode in the Back to Normandy Series featuring WWII 116th Infantry Regiment veteran TSgt Bill Parker, who landed in the first wave on Omaha Beach on D-Day. In this final episode, we attend a memorial service for an atrocity committed against the 82nd Airborne on D-Day and then we return to Omaha Beach for a second time on the trip with Bill.
Welcome to Episode 4 in the Back to Normandy Series featuring TSgt Bill Parker of the 116th Infantry Regiment, who landed in the first wave on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. In this episode, we follow our group of WWII veterans to the American cemetery at Colleville, stand at the scenic overlook - looking down on Omaha Beach and visit the grave of Bill's commanding officer on D-Day, Captain Laurence Madill.
Welcome to Episode 3 of the Back to Omaha Beach with TSGT Bill Parker of the 116th Infantry Regiment Series. In this episode Mr. Parker attends mass at Angoville au Plain, a small church with extraordinary D-Day history. Later he is welcomed to a small ceremony at La Maison de la Liberation, the first house liberated on Omaha Beach. And finally, Bill sets foot on Omaha Beach for the first time in 78 years.
Welcome to Episode 2 of the Back to Normandy series with TSGT Bill Parker who landed on the first wave of Omaha Beach in Company E of the 116th Infantry Regiment. In this episode, we cover June 2nd and 3rd, 2022 where Bill attends a private meeting with the mayor of Valogne, France and hears of the gratitude the french people have toward their liberators. Later he goes to Saint Mere Eglise and meets students and active duty military from several nations. On June 4 he attends a special meeting with school children in Bricquebec, France.
Welcome to a NEW series featuring TSGT Bill Parker of the 116th Infantry Regiment chronicling his trip back to Normandy for the first time in 78 years. In this episode, you will hear how the trip came to be, how Bill decided to go and learn about his first day back on French soil where he would meet the French family that would host him during his 6 day stay.
In honor of the 78th anniversary of D-Day, we are replaying an encore episode of the Bill Parker series. This episode is Episode 3 of his series and aired 3/21/2022. T/SGT Parker landed as Private Parker at H-Hour, the first man off of his landing craft on Omaha Beach on D-Day June 6, 1944 with the 116th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division . He was a wire cutter who was the first man off his landing craft and made it across the beach; surviving the withering machine gun fire directed at his team. After he blew the wire obstacle, he found that the rest of the men behind him on his landing craft were killed by artillery before they could exit the landing craft. He fought with other nearby soldiers against the German strongholds with only his rifle and grenades. Later that morning as the advance stalled, American warships fired their big guns from just off shore to knock out the bunkers, the shells flying in only 6 feet over Bill's head. He lost most of his hearing on D-Day.
As you listen, please give thanks to the young men who fought and died on that day and never forget what they gave to not only Europe but the world.
Welcome to the final episode in the 5 part Harold Dunn series featuring guest co-host and author Marilyn Walton. In this final episode Mr Dunn will detail the evacuation of Stalag Luft III as the Russian Army approaches from the east, the POW's hardship marching in the bitter cold to Stalag 7A at Moosburg and their eventual liberation.
Welcome to episode 4 in the 5 part Harold Dunn series featuring guest co-host and author Marilyn Walton. In this episode, we will feature some great stories about what it was like in the camp immediately after the great escape took place, some notable characters who were in Stalag Luft III, allied clandestine projects underway within the wire of the camp in addition to insight into how the men physically survived as a POW.
Welcome to episode 3 in the 5 part Harold Dunn series featuring guest co-host and author Marilyn Walton. In this episode Mr. Dunn details his bail out from his flaming B-17 over Germany, his attempt at evasion and eventual capture, his interrogation and internment into Stalag Luft 3 as well as how he helped with the infamous "Great Escape".
Welcome to Episode 2 of the 5 part Harold Dunn series on the Warrior Next Door Podcast. In this episode, we’re going to hear about Mr. Dunn's transition from the Army National Guard to the US Army Air Corps, his pilot training in B-17s as well as his assignment to the 306th Bomb Group stationed at RAF Thurleigh. We also hear about his early missions over Germany.
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