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An Iowa airman shot down on a bombing mission over Italy 73 years ago will be laid to rest in his native town tomorrow. Army Air Corps Staff Sgt. Byron…
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Author Loretta Ellsworth has written a number of books for young adults. This is her first novel aimed at an adult reader. The reader is taken back and…
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In 1940, weeks before Amsterdam was occupied by Germany, Anne Frank and her sister Margot wrote letters to eighth graders in Danville, Iowa as part of an…
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The Japanese surrender in WWII was official with the signing of the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945. But for Jerry Yellin, the war ended with…
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There is a new USS Iowa. The Virginia-class nuclear-power fast-attack submarine was named Wednesday afternoon at Iowa State University’s Memorial Union.…
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The Battle of the Bulge ended 70 years ago this month. Iowan George Dane was caught in the middle of it.In this hour of River to River, Ben Kieffer talks…
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During this interview, an Oelwein author talks about her family's fight for survival in Nazi-run Austria during World War II.Host Charity Nebbe speaks…
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When Otty Schmakal left Austria at the beginning of World War II, she left behind her homeland and a fiancé who was training to be a doctor. He was…
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While the Nazis were murdering millions of people, they also perpetrated the greatest mass theft in history. Host Charity Nebbe talks with former…
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In 1942, the U.S. Government issued evacuation notices “to all persons of Japanese ancestry.” In the wake of Pearl Harbor, more than 110,000…