Veterans Chronicles
- Website
- http://www.blogtalkradio.com/veterans-chronicles
- Description
- Veterans Chronicles is an hour-long program that tells the stories of America's greatest heroes in their own words.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-14 03:34
- last episode published
- 2024-11-13 12:00
- publication frequency
- 11.27 days
- Contributors
- BlogTalkRadio.com
- Owner
- Veterans Chronicles
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 548
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Y3C Lee Broussard, U.S. Navy, World War II, Witness to Japanese Surrrender Lee Brousard enlisted in the Navy with the intention of joining the Naval Air Corps. But as he was traveling to Florida for flight training, the Navy changed those plans and sent him to San Diego for naval training. After completing basic training, Bro... |
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| 2024-11-06 | Mike Ergo originally joined the U.S. Marine Corps to play his saxophone in the Marine Corps band. But a short time after joining the Corps in 2001, Ergo changed his mind and asked to be transferred to the infantry. Soon, the U.S. was at war in both Afg... |
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| 2024-10-30 | Aaron Cunningham started thinking seriously about military service after watching Operation Desert Storm unfold in 1991, the year he graduated from high school. He began college without being sure of military service. Now, Col. Cunningham is retired af... |
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| 2024-10-23 | Kenneth Wells was planning to join the U.S. Navy in World War II but the U.S. Marine Corps recruiter at the office told him he was joining the Marines instead. And so he did. His background as an athlete and working on the family farm helped Wells do w... |
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| 2024-10-16 | Vincent "Bill" Purple joined the U.S. Army Air Corps following the Japense attack on Pearl Harbor. Like most young men interested in joining the Air Corps, he wanted to be a fighter pilot. But the Army had different plans. Soon Purple was training on m... |
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| 2024-10-09 |
Cpl Frank Wright, USMC, World War II, Hand-to-Hand Fighting on Guam Frank Wright joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942, when he was just 16 years old. Before long, he became one of the famed Marine Raiders. After deploying first to Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, Wright contracted malaria and had to spend time recov... |
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| 2024-10-02 |
Maj. Gen. Clayton Hutmacher, U.S. Army, USMC, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan Clayton Hutmacher enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1978. Six years later he jumped at the chance to go to Army flight school and pursue a career in special operations. He would later see action in Panama, Desert Storm, and in both Iraq and Afghanis... |
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| 2024-09-25 | In the first half of our conversation with retired U.S. Navy Commander Porter Halyburton, we learned about the day he was shot down over North Vietnam, how he was captured and tortured, and the bond he formed with fellow POW Fred Cherry. Today, Halybur... |
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| 2024-09-18 | Porter Halyburton was born in Florida and grew up in North Carolina. After college, he got married and joined the U.S. Navy with a clear goal of becoming a naval aviator. He got his wish, flying the F-4. Shortly after becoming a new father, he was depl... |
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| 2024-09-11 |
Ron DiFrancesco, 9/11 Terrorist Attack Survivor, World Trade Center Ron DiFrancesco moved to the New York City area in 2000 to take an investment job with a firm based in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. He was already at work on September 11, 2001, when the first plane hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists struck ... |
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