Episodes

Last letters written home by some of our WW2 POW/MIA's in the Philippines

On today’s Stories of Sacrifice we will be discussing a very heroic POW/MIA who was awarded our Country's second highest combat valor award, the Distinguished Service Cross. Major James J. O’Donovan was the Executive Officer of the 3rd Battalion, 31st...

1st LT Cahoon was assigned to the 26th Cavalry Regiment (PS) in the Philippines during WW2. He was Killed in Action on 7 Jan 1942 and is still listed as Missing in Action. Hi nephew and namesake tells us his Story of Sacrifice and the Quest to bring...

PVT Israel Goldberg - Hq Squadron, 24th Pursuit Gp, US Army Air Corps WW2. PVT Goldberg is still listed as Missing in Action but buried as an Unknown. This is his story of sacrifice and his family's quest to get him identified.

S1c Beauran Roy O'Kane - WW2 Missing in Action - Family Interview with great nephew Jeff O'Kane and their family's struggle to get him home

Sweet Land of Liberty, personal account of WO Talmadge Smithey's capture and captivity in Japanese POW Camps during WW2.

The mission of the Stories of Sacrifice Podcast is to bring you the Stories of those POW/MIAs who have not made it home to their loved ones. This episode is the stories of those who survived.

SGT Leonard James McNeill, WW2 POW/MIA and buried as an Unknown in an American Military Cemetery. This is his Story of Sacrifice and his family's quest to bring him home!

In this two part episode I will talk about the US Marine Corps and US Coast Guard.

Buried as an "Unknown" at the Manila American Cemetery - PVT Martin Kunik, served with Company H, 31st Infantry Regiment in the Philippines. He died at Cabanatuan and is buried as an Unknown at the Manila American Cemetery

Reexamining the Cabanatuan unknown cases and the need for using a DNA Lead Process to make these identifications.

Technician 5th Class Julius St. John Knudsen - A story of Sacrifice of Unknown circumstances

SGT Durrell Tidwell - born in New Mexico and served with the 200th Coast Artillery Regiment. Currently buried as an Unknown at the Manila American Cemetery