Category: World War II
From Pearl Harbor into World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Al-Bodenlos-Pearl-Harbor-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Al Bodenlos can tell you plenty about building airport runways. Of course, most of those he helped build were on…
A Witness to the Beginning of World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Al-Bodenlos-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Al Bodenlos was in Honolulu on the morning of December 7, 1941. Like many people there, he didn’t immediately realize…
An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Al-Bodenlos-Pearl-Harbor-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 952.2KB)Al was about to witness the most realistic military training exercise he had ever seen. As he got closer to…
German Prisoners of War Going to Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:06 — 1.9MB)Sunday was a day of worship in Hampshire, Illinois…both for the American residents and their friends, the German POWs. The…
Learning English from a German POW
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)When John Fenzell was struggling with English at his Illinois elementary school, he got a tutor…a tutor that just happened…
Delivering the Paper to a German POW Camp
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)John Fenzell, like many young boys, delivered papers growing up. However, some of his customers happened to be German POWs…
Midwestern POW Camps in World War II
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/07/John-Fenzell-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:03 — 1.9MB)During World War II, young working men left the Midwest to fight for their country. In some cases, it was…
Kermit Bell
http://www.americancountryside.com/audio/kermit-bell-6-26-09.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 955.7KB)Over 2 decades after he first entered the army, Kermit Bell was now on his way to Vietnam. Not only…