PFC Charles A. Fritchman, Jr., US Army, 302nd Infantry

Please join me to hear the story of Cpl Homer Harry Johnson, A young immigrant family’s son.A delivery driver.A soldier who served his country despite losing an eye.A husband and father who built a li...

2 Aug 13min

In this episode of War and Family Letters Home, hear the story of S/2 Roger Scott Hertz, US Navy.  Enlisted on his 18th birthday and just 19 years old when he deployed for the Pacific theater of war.P...

26 Jul 13min

In this episode of War and Family Letters Home, we remember Pvt. Coy Lee Padgett, USMC, who was killed in action on Iwo Jima on March 7, 1945. His story reflects the courage of a generation and the en...

19 Jul 13min

In this episode, we follow the remarkable journey of PFC Rhoades Ferguson Sawyer of Company I, 112th Infantry Regiment, from his childhood in Massachusetts to the brutal battlefields of the Hürtgen Fo...

4 Jul 16min

Welcome to War and Family Letters Home.For most people, the weather is simply something we complain about. For Corporal James Gledhill and the men of the 21st Weather Squadron, it was a weapon, a life...

27 Jun 15min

Sergeant Norman E. Beck. From a boy growing up in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania… to a National Guardsman called into federal service… to a soldier living in bamboo huts deep in the jungles of Assam, helpin...

7 Jun 16min

Arnold John Nerthling,  A young man from Buffalo, with roots reaching back to the Seneca people of the Tonawanda Reservation, Arnold carried out the unglamorous but essential work that kept the Allied...

24 Mai 15min

Please join me to hear the story and letters of Luther Patterson Miller of Somerset Pennsylvania.Navy radioman Miller witnessed a world at war. Yet perhaps his greatest contribution came after the fig...

16 Mai 18min