The following shows aired in October 2006. Click on the show date in the left column to listen to that show. Files are in MP3 format.
10/8/06 VSOs, VA Benefits & You: Part II. 50% of initial VA claims are initiated by you, the veteran. The remaining claims are filed with the help of a VSO (Veterans Service Organization). Which way works better? Do you know who to contact to get that VA claim started? Where do you go if you get turned down? Do you go straight to the VA or to one of the many VSOs? How about your County Veteran’s Office? We talk with Mark Lindke and Michael Smith from the Washtenaw County, (Ann Arbor, MI) Veteran Service Office and find out what you need to know to file your claim and how to get it approved.
10/15/06 Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue. On February 23, 1945, as the battle raged below, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal’s camera captured five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the Stars and Stripes on Mt. Suribachi. Veterans Radio looks back at the incredible circumstances surrounding the most famous “War Picture” ever taken. Hal Buell, veteran photo editor, who spent more than 40 years with the Associated Press has written the definitive story of the photograph and the photographer.
10/22/06 AFRTS. AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) was born during World War II. Its mission was to inform and entertain American military personnel overseas. That mission has changed little in the 64 years since, although the methods used have changed immeasurably. What was it like to serve in AFRTS? Ken Rogge (a former AFRTSer) talks to Gerry Fry who spent 32 years in AFRTS (many of them at the Headquarters) and with two former members of AFRTS about their experiences.
10/29/06 Koga’s Zero. It is said that three major events shortened the war with Japan. They were The Atomic Bomb, Breaking the Japanese Code, and Koga’s Zero—hosts Gary Lillie and Dale Throneberry interview the PBY pilot, Bill Thies, who found the Zero along with Jim Rearden, the author of Koga’s Zero. They will recount the discovery and how the American military used it to fight the Japanese Zero, thus saving countless American—and Japanese—lives.