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Letters Ray To Shirl: A WWII Love Story Podcast
Letters Ray To Shirl: A WWII Love Story Podcast episodes
- Letters From a B-17 Bombardier
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Second Lt Bombardier Ray Konen writes his sweetheart Shirley from stateside training fields in the middle of WWII. Note his brother was Kennard and the ai reading calls bill and Johnie his brothers. Bill was either a close family friend or Shirley’s boss at the bank. Two separate bills often come up in the letters.
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8 min - The Most Dangerous Night in San Bernardino
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Second Lt Bombardier Ray Konen writes his sweetheart after a dangerous night off base in California.
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12 min - The Brutal Reality of Bombardier Training
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What was it like to train as a Bombardier during WWII. Letters reveal bits and pieces. Memory reveals snippets of that life told to a twelve or fourteen year old girl and speechify ai has research done with the letters from the collection of 200 written to Shirley, my grandmother to be.
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17 min - Eight Hundred Rounds a Minute
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A bit about gunnery school and the legacy of letters.
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5 min - Inside the B-24’s Death Trap
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Stories told to a young grandchild of a Second Lt Bombardier through letters and recounts . Additional information provided through ai research through the iOS app speechify
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27 min - Killer Konen’s Secret Life
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The bombardier’s an instructor now and desperate to win back Shirley. Learn snippets of how their life ended up together.
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16 min - Love and Lethality in 1943
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The story of an army Airforce Bombardier and his family through letters home to his wife to be Shirley. This story has a dog story within one of the letters.
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15 min - The Bombardier’s Secret War
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A series of letters in 1943 when Ray tackled technical training balanced with visits from his sweetheart amidst snowstorms of the Midwest.
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16 min - Love and War at Fort Custer
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Ray writes Shirley about escapades with the captain and makes plans to steal away by rail to see her.
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19 min - Letters to the Homefront
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Second Lt Bombardier Ray Konen writes about a missing postal item, fancies a fountain pen given by Shirley, and promises her a phonograph at the first post war Christmas.
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About Letters Ray To Shirl: A WWII Love Story Podcast
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Letters from Raymond J. Konen a Second LT Bombardier in the Army Airforce training stateside back home to his girl Shirley Rutledge who worked as a baank teller in Chicago during the War. …
Approximately 200 letters span 1943-1947