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.
52 Pieces
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Wayne Stillman enlisted in 1956. Born and raised in Rochester, he ended up back in his hometown at a new Military Police (MP) unit. Here’s Britt Aa...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
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Richard Krom’s great-grandfather, Edward H. Bassett, survived Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg in July 1863. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Richard Krom’s great-grandfather marched hundreds of miles to Gettysburg, only to find himself, in company with the First Minnesota, immediately pl...
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Richard Krom is the great-grandson of Edward H Bassett, a Faribault, Minnesota man who fought with the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry at the Fi...
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In the Korean War, Merle Peterson and his infantry unit not only had to contend with enemy attacks but the bitter cold of a Korean winter. Here’s B...
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Merle Peterson arrived in Korea in August 1950. His unit got off the ship and three days later, they were surrounded by the enemy. Here’s Britt Aam...
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Merle Peterson enlisted in the Army right out of high school in 1948. Two years later, the Korean War broke out, and his battalion was shipped over...
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Frank Churchward was sent to Korea in 1954, where his motor pool lived out of tents. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Frank Churchward arrived in Pusan, Korea in 1954, but was soon shipped up to Inchon where he worked as a truck mechanic. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Frank Churchward was in Korea in 1954-55. He was with the Army combat engineers, operating heavy equipment, building bridges and doing carpentry. H...
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Eldon Anderson was a tank officer in Korea in 1979-80. Korea had lost a lot trees during the Korean War. But one day one of his tanks accidentally ...
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Eldon Anderson was at Camp Casey in Korea, where he was an officer in an armor regiment. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Dave Rowlands went from Air Force tech school to Tachikawa, Japan, and an airbase that was soon to be dismantled. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
