Rondo Sharfe Falsified His Age at 16 to Serve His Country During WWII
Ronald “Rondo” Gilbert Scharfe, snagged some blank baptismal certificates from the Church where his sister was being married so that he could convince the U.S. Navy that he was seventeen.
Augusta Chiwy’s Amazing Story
Military historian and author Martin King joins Kim to share the story of Augusta Chiwy and his own story as he sought to find her decades after the end of World War II.
WWII Veteran Frank DeVita
WWII Veteran Frank DaVita joined the Coast Guard to serve our country. He ended up as a ramp operator on a Higgins Boat landing craft on the first wave of soldiers landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day.
WWII Veteran Richard Rohleder
Kansas farmboy and WWII Veteran, Richard Rohleder, recently traveled back to the Netherlands for the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden.
Healing Our Wounded Veterans: Grady T. Birdsong and Colonel Bob Fischer
We must help heal our soldiers who are returning home from combat! Marines Col. Bob Fischer and Grady Birdsong share how “a miracle created by a diverse group of individuals is ‘fixing broken brains’…of veterans who suffer daily in silence and confusion, oftentimes alone.”
WW II Veteran: Dr. Ken Isaacs
WW II Veteran, Dr. Ken Isaacs, will turn 100 in 2020. Dr. Isaacs served in dual roles in WWII, one as a rifleman and two doing administrative work behind the lines.
WWII Veteran Clifford Frye
Clifford Frye joined the Navy in 1943. As a mid-western kid on ships in the Pacific Ocean, he had quite a time with sea sickness. Therefore, the Navy kept moving him to bigger and bigger ships.
Loran Smith, Vietnam
Brooklyn-born Loran Smith joined the Air Force in 1952. He spent time in the South as a Tuskegee Airman before the Civil Rights movement and later flew hundreds of combat missions in Vietnam.
Andy Lipscomb, 4th Armored Division
West Virginian Andy Lipscomb served with the 4th Armored Division in WWII.
Remembering D-Day with Retired Brigadier General Christopher Petty
Retired Brigadier General Christopher Petty breaks down the engagement and battle of D-Day on the eve of it’s 75th anniversary.