Britt Aamodt
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- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Britt Aamodt
Medal of Honor
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From: Ampers
Rufus and Daniel Ross were Yankton Sioux who grew up on a farm in Minnesota Falls—and never talked about what they did in World War II. In 2014, the brothers were ...
The Occupation of Japan
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From: Ampers
1946: In the months after Japan’s surrender and the official end of World War II on September 2, 1945, Lieutenant George Tani toured the rubble-strewn land with a public ...
The Disappearance of Flight 19
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From: Ampers
December 5, 1945: Herman Thelander would soon be home on leave in Kinbrae, Minnesota. But today, he and the other crewmembers of Flight 19, which consisted of five torpedo ...
Witness at Nuremberg
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From: Ampers
November 1945: Larry Tillemans never could have guessed his typing class at his high school in Minneota would land him here. Here was the Palace of Justice for the Nuremberg ...
Report on Dachau
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From: Ampers
May 1945 – In Minneapolis, Major Reuben Berman was a doctor. Now he was at the gates of the newly liberated Dachau, on orders from the Army, to report what Nazi doctors did ...
The Tuskegee Airman and the Messerschmitt
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From: Ampers
March 14, 1945: Lieutenant Harold Brown of Minneapolis was a Tuskegee airman with the 332 Fighter Group on his 30th mission. This time he flew over Nazi-occupied Austria. ...
A Lieutenant on Iwo Jima
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From: Ampers
February 19, 1945: Lieutenant Gene Bierhaus had been a star player on his high school football team in Brainerd, Minnesota. But there were no cheering crowds when he and his ...
A Monuments Man
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From: Ampers
January 1945: Captain Walter “Hutch” Huchthausen, formerly a design professor at the University of Minnesota, was a Monuments Man with the Army. Right now, his job was to ...
Halsey’s Typhoon and the Best Friends from Norcross
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From: Ampers
December 17, 1944: Lloyd Lundgren and Warren Hakenson were best friends from Norcross, Minnesota. Enlisted in the Navy, they were aboard the destroyer USS Spence when it ...
