Category: History Post

by Edwin “Rosie” Rossillon In Episode 95, we chatted with Rosie; member of the Greatest Generation. He wrote a short book about his experiences growing up in rural Kansas to flying as a nose turret gunner in the B-24 Liberator over southern Europe from his base in Italy during the second World War. He was reluctant to publish it; thinking no one would be interested, that perhaps it wasn’t good […]

Recently we received a monetary donation from a listener, Jeff Krosse… and then a second gift from him that we would like to share here. It’s of the many of the Marines of VMF-214 (Black Sheep Squadron) taken on Dec. 27th, 1943 on an island called Vella Lavella in the Marshall Islands. It is signed by 3 of the pilots in the photo: Capt Ed Olander (5 Zeros) LtCol John […]