Om Always Remember - World War II Through Veterans’ Eyes
World War II was a pivotal moment in world history, when not only the survival of the United States was at stake, but of democracy throughout the world. Had the Allies lost WW II, fascism would have engulfed the world even as genocide would have robbed humanity of its diversity. WW II veterans live again through these short podcasts, which like the accompanying book of the same name, tell their incredible stories of valor and sacrifice. Each riveting podcast tells the story of WW II through the eyes of those who fought it. They were called the greatest generation for a reason. The host invites you to email him at drjohnu64@gmail.com.
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Ep. 28 - Donald Chase - The Poet Warrior who turned down Million Dollar Wounds in WW 2 and Korea (00:45:27)
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 oft...
Ep. 27 - Richard V. Morgan - A Leatherneck Recalls the Forgotten Hell of Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian Islands (00:30:46)
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. ...
Ep. 26 - Hattie Brantley - The Angel of Corregidor (00:20:38)
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. ...
Ep 25 - Edgar Kuhlow: He is Going to Stay Laying Here in Germany (00:32:27)
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 Deutschla...
Ep 24 Part Two: Jim Dorris - A Light in the Darkness of WW II (00:24:41)
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, Ingolshei...
Ep 23 Part One: Jim Dorris - A Light in the Darkness of WW 2 (00:22:39)
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, Ingolshei...
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 offic...
Ep. 21 Colonel Lloyd Huggins - Leading Easy Company Thru the Hurtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, and Beyond (00:42:55)
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 thr...
Ep. 20 - When Johnny Comes Marching Home: Transitions and Remembrance (00:38:26)
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,...
Ep 19 - Victory At Last Part 2 - VJ Day (00:38:06)
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 Londo...
Ep 18 Victory at Last VE Day - Part 1 (00:32:49)
Having led his country through the most devastating and consequential war in world history, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died just as the war’s end seemed in sight. For GIs like Roland Schump, Mur...
Ep 17 Liberators of the Holocaust Part 3 - Ohrdruf and the Forgotten Concentration Camps (00:33:06)
Adolph Hitler’s “Final Solution” was carried out in an estimated 44,000 concentration camps, ghettos, and forced labor camps spread out throughout Europe. An estimated 15 to 20 million people were mu...
Ep 16 Liberators of the Holocaust Part 2 - Dachau Concentration Camp (00:46:05)
Adolph Hitler’s “Final Solution” was carried out in 42,400 concentration camps, ghettos, and forced labor camps spread out throughout Europe. An estimated 15 to 20 million people were murdered in the...
Ep 15 Liberators of the Holocaust Part 1 - Buchenwald Concentration Camp (00:38:45)
Adolph Hitler’s “Final Solution” was carried out in 42,400 concentration camps, ghettos, and forced labor camps spread out throughout Europe. An estimated 15 to 20 million people were murdered in the...
Ep. 14 - Shattering the Siegfried Line (00:39:57)
The Siegfried Line which spread from the Netherlands to Switzerland was Nazi Germany’s 400 mile westernwall, a heavily fortified defensive line that took the Allies six months to pierce. David Saltma...
Episode 13 - Typhoon of Steel: The Battle of Okinawa (00:41:21)
The final battle before the anticipated invasion of mainland Japan, Okinawa became the deadliest battle for US forces in the Pacific with savage fighting on land, air, and especially sea. Nicknamed t...
Ep. 12 - Prisoners of War (00:40:55)
Millions of Allied and Axis soldiers became POWs in WW II. His weight down to 90 pounds, sick with malaria, Edgar Kuhlow overheard two German guards talking about his condition – “He is going to stay...
Ep. 11 - The Battle of the Bulge (00:43:13)
With the Germans seemingly on the run everywhere in Europe, the Allies had hoped WW 2 would be done by year’s end 1944. Those hopes were shattered when the Germans launched their largest counter offe...
Ep.9 - Sand in Our Shoes: Island Hopping in the Pacific Theater (00:44:02)
As the Allies embarked on their island hopping campaign growing ever closer to the Japanese mainland, they soon discovered that their enemy in the Pacific was adept at presenting new challenges on eve...
Ep. 10 - Minorities in World War II (00:47:28)
The African Americans who served on the USS Mason destroyer had already endured 90 mph winds and 60 foot waves that split the Mason's deck as they shepherded convoys to safety in the Atlantic when the...
Bloody Omaha Beach bore the brunt of D-Day’s savage fighting with more casualties than all of the other D-Day beaches combined. Aware that the men he led in one of the first waves to land on Bloody O...
Ep7 Robert Bowen D-Day to Operation Market-Garden to Battle of the Bulge (00:46:04)
From landing on Utah beach amidst floating bodies in life preservers to a combat glider landing aboard one of the "flying coffins" at Operation Market Garden. Robert Bowen saw a lot of action in World...
Episode 6 One Tough Gut: Monte Cassino, Anzio, Gunsmoke's James Arness, and a German Troop Train Escape (00:35:06)
While Winston Churchill believed an Allied invasion of Italy would find it the soft underbelly of the Axis, most GIs agreed with General Mark Clark's description of it as "One Tough Gut" as they faced...
Episode 5 - Combat Jumps of All American Panther Arnold "Dutch" Nagel (00:40:37)
Arnold "Dutch" Nagel volunteered to be a paratrooper in WW 2 because of the extra $50 per month jump pay paratroopers received and the distinctive uniforms they wore. By war's end, he had participate...
Episode 4 - Aerial Dogfights and Headhunters - The Amazing Story of Jefferson DeBlanc and the Battle for the Solomon Islands (00:23:01)
In August 1942 the US launched its first major amphibious landing of WW 2 in the Solomon Islands. The battle became a bitter war of attrition as both sides fought feverishly for months on land, sea a...
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