Veterans' Voices: Rochester
Series produced by KRPR
Veterans' Voices is a radio series exploring the knowledge, experience and leadership of Rochester service members.
Veterans' Voices is a radio series exploring the knowledge, experience and leadership of Rochester service members.
Veteran' Voices is produced by KRPR and Ampers.
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1920: Two years after his son’s death in World War II, Andrew Haggerty, a Rochester postal carrier, had Clarence returned home for a flag-draped fu...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
December 7, 1941: For four years, Dr. William Judd had been touring the country, warning about the dangers of Imperial Japan. Only today, as his le...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
April 1942: Army corporal Erwin Albert Glaesnapp survived the 85-mile Bataan Death March after his tank unit surrendered. But now he and his fellow...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
November 7, 1942: Army Air Forces private Claude Robert was training to be a glider pilot at Fontana School of Aeronautics. What could be so hard a...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
June 5, 1943: Pilot Fred Hargesheimer had to eject from his plane into New Guinea. His first worry was evading the Japanese. But the challenge soon...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
Late fall 1943: The Army didn’t send Lt Gerald Heaney and the 2nd Ranger Battalion to train in the British resort town Bude for its cobblestone str...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
March 5, 1945: Corporal Newman Tuttle was chewing the fat with reporters in Salt Lake City. Rather than gearing up to storm Germany with his unit t...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
April 25, 1945: Pilot Joyce Noel Johnson’s mission was to bomb a munitions plant in Czechoslovakia. Not to take it away from the Nazis but to keep ...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1960: It had been 16 years since WWII pilot Fred Hargesheimer had to jump from his plane into the jungles of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. But now...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
March 23, 1962: Major General Joseph Preston didn’t normally take a back seat to anyone at Vandenberg Air Force Base. He commanded the base, after ...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
February 19, 1969: Army captain Edwin Ackerman had the experience of two tours in Vietnam. But this was a night patrol and the Viet Cong were waiti...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
June 18, 1968: Army sergeant Robert Lee Graham was a short timer. In one month he’d be rotating home. But in Vietnam, a lot could happen between no...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
March 25, 1969: David Allan Weber would rather be back in Rochester, casting a line into a good fishing hole. But he was in Vietnam, jumping out of...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
August 6, 1945: Where was Sergeant Norman Corson? He couldn’t tell you. Top secret. But the girl he was spending time with was named Enola Gay. Her...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
2009: Navy vet Al Procopio knew his cancer was caused by exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. Only it would take him 20 years and a leg...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 01:30
Cyril Kubista was drafted in 1956 to work with an Army combat engineer unit. But he was quickly promoted to motor sergeant. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Dave Rowlands went from Air Force tech school to Tachikawa, Japan, and an airbase that was soon to be dismantled. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Dave Rowlands and his crew at Tachikawa Air Base in Japan worked at remote receiver site, where meals came courtesy of a man with takeout in boxes ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
David Nelson was in the Navy, 1955-59. He grew up on a Farm in Simpson, Minnesota, and joined the Navy to see the world. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Eldon Anderson was in the Army 1979-83. He grew up in Austin and earned his commission through the ROTC program. He became a tanker after training ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
