Cpl Homer Harry Johnson, US Army
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
S2 Roger Scott Hertz, US Navy 48th Construction Battalion SeaBees
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
Pvt. Coy Lee Padgett, USMC 5th Division KIA Iwo Jima March 7, 1945
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
PFC Rhoades F. Sawyer, US Army, 112th Infantry
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
Cpl James Edwin Gledhill, US Army AirCorp, 21st Weather Squadron
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
Sgt Norman E Beck, US Army, 195th Truck Company China-Burma-India
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
PFC Arnold John Nerthling Jr., US Army, 232nd Port Company
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
