Letters Home

It's our "Season 3 finale" and we're reading the last letters we have from 1944. We read about the trip that Frank and his daughters-in-law took to visit Bruce in Arizona, we learn that Bruce and Marg...

7 Aug 202539min

In this episode, Bruce and Margaret "honeymoon" at a redistribution center in Miami before moving to Kingman, Arizona for Bruce's next assignment at Kingman Army Air Field. We read letters from both B...

31 Jul 202533min

Bruce and Margaret finally tie the knot and we read the wedding announcement from the Ledger, as well as what Bruce's brother Roger thinks of the marriage. We also read a little bit about Bruce's home...

24 Jul 202529min

This is it for Bruce's time in Thurleigh. In this episode, we read about Bruce's final missions and letters he sent while waiting to go home to Lowell!Original music by Roger MacNaughton.

17 Jul 202532min

This is "the day" Bruce and his squadron have been waiting for-- D-Day. June 6, 1944. We read Bruce's letter that describes his experience in the invasion and we learn more about what exactly happened...

19 Jun 202532min

We take a brief detour from Bruce's story to talk more about his cousin Bill Lalley, who was also a pilot shot down on his very first mission. Bill spent a year on the run with the resistance and in a...

12 Jun 202535min

In this episode, we learn more about how everyone is preparing for D-Day, including people back home. We hear some family updates about Bruce’s brother Roger heading in the army and Bruce's cousin Bil...

5 Jun 202535min

In May 1944, Bruce wrote an account of a hypothetical mission that was published on the front page of the Lowell Ledger. We read this novelization of a mission in this episode, as well as get an updat...

29 Mai 202535min