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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
1944: Virginia Mae “Ginny” Hope was living her dream. The 23-year-old from Winnebago, Minnesota, had transferred her civilian pilot’s license into war work, ferrying warplanes from factories to bases, as a WASP (Women’s Air Force Service Pilot). Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
Lex Porter, a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, served in World War II. When family asked, he said he’d been a radio operator. They only found out after his death he’d been a code talker. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
Summer 1944: Jack Rainey of Minneapolis and the 92nd, an all-black infantry division, also known as the Buffalo Division, landed in Italy. They were told the Germans were on the run. All they had to do was mop them up. But the 92nd would encounter a far-from-defeated Germany. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
June 6, 1944: Lieutenant Robert Huch, St. Paul, was leading a company from the Army’s First Infantry Division onto a beach in Normandy, France, for D-Day. There were five beachheads, but they’d got the worst: Omaha, with its unprotected beach and German-occupied cliffs. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
