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Palm Springs, California

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Palm-Springs-Tour.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)Before Palm Springs was a resort town–before Palm Springs was really even a town, for that matter; movie stars began…

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Jackie Cochran, Pilot

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/Palm-Springs-Jackie-Cochran.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.1KB)Most people have heard of Chuck Yeager, but most have not heard of his good friend Jackie, a pilot who…

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A Train Depot in Palm Springs

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/Palm-Springs-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 958.4KB)When the rails came through this stretch of dry wilderness, the only people living here were the Cahuilla Indians. What…

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Creating Tastier Vegetables

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/03/Monsanto-Tasty-Vegetables1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 951.6KB)President George Bush made headlines when he banned broccoli from the White House and Air Force One. Perhaps he’d eat…

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Near Libertation from a POW Camp

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/POW-Tom-Crosby-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)American troops had finally made it to Manila and were attempting to free POWs like Tom Crosby. Just when things…

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Suffering in a POW Camp

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/POW-Tom-Crosby-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.3KB)It is difficult to imagine the conditions for POWs like Tom Crosby in the weeks leading up to their camps…

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Living As A Prisoner of War

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/POW-Tom-Crosby-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.7KB)In January of 1942, eight year old Tom Crosby, along with his brother, mother and grandmother, Americans living in Manilla,…

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An 8-Year Old POW

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/POW-Tom-Crosby-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 957.1KB)Life was good for eight year old Tom Crosby, an American living in Manila in 1941. Then December 7th came,…

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The Point Loma Lighthouse

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/02/Point-Loma-Lighthouse-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 951.0KB)Not long after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Americans began to see and hear things–things like Japanese tanks, subs and…

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The San Diego Veterans Center

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/San-Diego-Veterans-Center.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 956.1KB)The plan was to tear down San Deigo’s old navy hospital. A new hospital was built, but portions of the…

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Tunnelling to Pass the Time

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Ed-Davidson-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Most prison camps wouldn’t want their detainees digging tunnels to freedom, but at Ed’s camp, it was a way to…

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A World War 2 Pilot and POW

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Ed-Davidson-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Ed believed he was a well informed pilot flying for the United States. Then the German captured him and told…

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A Young WW2 Pilot

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/01/Ed-Davison-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Ed Davidson got to cross the Atlantic on the Queen Mary, but his trip wasn’t for pleasure…

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FFA Gets Highlighted in the Rose Bowl Parade

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/01/FFA-Rose-Bowl-Parade.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Happy New Year! The National FFA will be highlighted in front of millions of people in attendance and watching the…

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Swimming in a Sea of Burning Oil

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Pearl-Harbor-Survivor-Stu-Hedley-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Stu Hedley may have believed that once he left his ship, the West Virginia, in Pearl Harbor on the morning…

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Surviving Pearl Harbor: A First Hand Account

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/10/Pearl-Harbor-Survivor-Stu-Hedley.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.8MB)We’ve heard of the events of December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. Today, we meet one of the men who…

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Back to Baseball

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Jerry-Coleman-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 1.9MB)Jerry Coleman served his country as a pilot during World War II, then returned home to play professional baseball. 1949…

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A Yankee Pilot

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Jerry-Coleman-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.9KB)It is difficult to fathom the changes that took place in everyday life in the United State, yet alone Hawaii,…

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Waiting to Join…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Jerry-Coleman-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 951.8KB)Jerry Coleman was a high school senior when the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor. He was drafted the very next year,…

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