Category: World War II
Tractors of the War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/17June13-Armored-Tractors-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)We may not think of ag equipment manufacturers having much to do with the U.S. military. However, during World War…
Now THAT’S a Tractor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/14June13-Armored-Tractors-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)If you think those high-tech gizmos on modern tractors are cool, you should check out a John Deere model from…
Honoring A Top Secret Mission
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/06Jun13-Christian-Christiansen-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The military exercise was top secret. When this mission was finally opened to the public, the reverend who played the…
The Pastor Who Helped
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/05Jun13-Christian-Christiansen-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)During World War II the Germans raced against the Americans to be the first to successfully build an atomic bomb….
The Higgins Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/04/24May13-Higgins-Memorial.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every Memorial Day we remember are family and friends who have passed. Many communities will also remember their veterans and…
Pearl Harbor Survivor Al Bodenlos
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/01/17Jan12-Al-Bodenlos-Pearl-Harbor.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Al can tell you plenty about building airport runways. Of course, most of those he helped build were on surfaces…
A Court-Martial and Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Pearl-Harbor-Sterling-Cale-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Sterling Cale acted with bravery and courage during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Why, then, was he going to be…
In the Waters at Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Pearl-Harbor-Sterling-Cale-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)He was an eyewitness to history, a man who was in the waters of Pearl Harbor during and after the…
A Day That Will Live in Infamy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/12/Pearl-Harbor-Sterling-Cale-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)He was a farm boy from Illinois who thought he’d received the prime spot for anyone to serve in the…
A Prisoner of War Reintured
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Ft-Reno-Oklahoma-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Over 65 years after this Prisoner Of War died in a work camp, his body will be reintured near his…
One Famous Horse
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Ft-Reno-Oklahoma-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)At one time this fort raised and trained over 14,000 horses and mules at a time. Many of those animals…
From Japan to the United States
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Barbara-Law-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)As a Japanese teenager, Barbara was taught to defend herself from American soldiers arriving in her country. She ended up…
World War II From the Other Side of the Globe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Barbara-Law-11.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Probably all of us have heard stories about World War II. Perhaps we have friends or relatives who have shared…
Preserving the SS American Victory
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Victory-Ships-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)During the 1940s, 534 of these ships existed. Today only three sail the waters. Their past and present are a…
A New Class of Ships
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Victory-Ships-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)During the first half of World War II, the United States used vessels called Liberty Ships to haul cargo and…
Building Victory Ships
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Victory-Ships-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Imagine a ship over a football field and a half long and sixty-two feet wide. Now imagine you need to…
Florida’s Holocaust Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/03/Florida-Holocaust-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)If you happen to visit the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, you should take time to visit a well done site called…
POW Tom Crosby
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/26Feb10-POW-Tom-Crosby-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 954.7KB)American troops finally made it to Manila and were attempting to free POW’s like Tom Crosby. Just went things seemed…
Pearl Harbor Remembered
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Pearl-Harbor-Daniel-Martinez-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Although the events of December 7th, 1941 are nearly seven decades old, Americans do remember. They honor those who gave…
Days Americans Never Forget
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/12/Pearl-Harbor-Herb-Weathermax.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Before there was a 9/11, there was December 7th. Both are days Americans will never forget. However, there are few…
