IN 1942 A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRIESTHOOD WITH A COLLEGE DEGREE LEFT THE SEMINARY AND JOINED THE MARINE CORPS AS A PRIVATE. LANDING ON A FIRE SWEPT PACIFIC ISLAND A YEAR LATER HE LOST HIS LIFE AND THEN HIS COUNTRY LOST HIM.

OUR HERO IN TODAY’S STORY REMAINS A MIA AFTER OVER 75 YEARS!

STAY TUNED AND WE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE DETAILS OF THIS SPECIAL STORY…WITH AN EVEN MORE UNBELIEVABLE TWIST AT THE END!

EPISODE 27 IS ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL AND SAD CASES IN OUR FILES.

SOMETIMES THE FAMILY LORE PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION ABOUT AN AMERICAN HERO TURNS OUT TO BE JUST PLAIN WRONG.  AND TRAGICALLY IN TODAY'S STORY, A SOLDIER'S FINAL RESTING PLACE IS LOST TO THE FAMILY EVEN WHEN THE HERO LIES JUST ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE HOME TO WHICH HE NEVER RETURNED.

STAY TUNED AND WE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE DETAILS OF A MYSTERIOUS STORY OF LOSS AND REMEMBERANCE.

EPISODE 26 IS FROM CASE NUMBER 0249 IN THE INVESTIGATIVE CASE FILES OF THE CHIEF RICK STONE AND FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

THE MIA FEATURED IN OUR STORY TODAY IS ONE OF THE “LOST PHANTOMS OF TARAWA” THAT WERE FEATURED IN EPISODE 15…BUT TODAY, WE GET A CHANCE TO FOCUS IN ON A SPECIAL ONE OF OUR “PHANTOMS” IN OUR SPECIAL INDEPENDENCE DAY EPISODE…BECAUSE..

PRIVATE PAUL FRANKLIN HUFFMAN IS THE ONLY ONE OF 1,090 TARAWA CASUALTIES WHO WAS ACTUALLY BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY…AND HE REMAINS…MISSING IN ACTION AFTER OVER 75 YEARS

STAY TUNED WHILE WE OFFER OUR ANALYSIS OF WHERE PRIVATE HUFFMAN CAN FINALLY BE FOUND, RECOVERED, AND IDENTIFIED...ALL ON TODAY’S EPISODE OF “NO HOME FOR HEROES”!

EPISODE 25 IS FROM CASE NUMBER 0424 IN THE INVESTIGATIVE CASE FILES OF THE CHIEF RICK STONE AND FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

THE MIA FEATURED IN OUR STORY TODAY WAS DROPPED FROM THE OFFICIAL LIST OF CASUALTIES FROM THE BATTLE OF TARAWA FROM 1945 TO 2018…HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?

AND…HIS ACTUAL CRASH SITE REMAINS A MYSTERY EVEN THOUGH IT WAS WITNESSED, MAPPED, AND EVEN GIVEN LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES…HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?

STAY TUNED WHILE WE EXPLORE A SPECIAL “DOUBLE MYSTERY” ON TODAY’S “NO HOME FOR HEROES”!

TODAY’S STORY IS OUR FIRST EPISODE FEATURING A MIA WHO LOST HIS LIFE DURING THE KOREAN WAR’S FAMOUS BATTLE OF THE CHOSIN RESERVOIR. ALSO KNOWN AS THE “FROZEN CHOSIN."

OUR HERO IN TODAY’S EPISODE LOST HIS LIFE PROTECTING AN AIRFIELD SO THAT HIS WOUNDED BUDDIES COULD BE EVACUATED.

THERE ARE ALMOST 8,000 AMERICAN SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN WHO REMAIN MIA’S FROM A WAR THAT MOST AMERICANS ARE ONLY VAGUELY AWARE OF AND IS KNOWN AS "THE FORGOTTEN WAR."

STAY TUNED FOR NOT ONLY A HISTORY LESSON BUT ALSO THE STORY OF SACRIFICE AND VALOR BY A VETERAN MARINE IN THIS EPISODE OF “NO HOME FOR HEROES”

EPISODE 23 IS FROM CASE NUMBER 0381 IN THE INVESTIGATIVE FILES OF THE CHIEF RICK STONE AND FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

WE ARE GOING TO RESPECTFULLY ASSUME SOME LITERARY LICENSE FROM A HERO MARINE TO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THE SON HE NEVER MET.

HOPEFULLY, OUR OWN WORDS WILL CAPTURE THE KIND OF FACTS AND DETAILS THAT A FATHER WOULD WANT HIS SON TO KNOW IF HE WERE NOT AROUND TO TELL HIS OWN STORY.

YOU SURE DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS ONE BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO ATTEMPT TO CRAFT A NARRATIVE THAT TELLS THE STORY OF ONE OF HISTORY’S MILITARY MYSTERIES IN WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN A LOST HEROES OWN WORDS.

STAY TUNED FOR A VERY INTRIGUING PERSPECTIVE ON TODAY’S “NO HOME FOR HEROES”

EPISODE 22 IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT BECAUSE WE START THE PROGRAM BY POSING A QUESTION RATHER THAN PROMISING TO PROVIDE AN ANSWER TO THE LOCATION OF A MISSING AMERICAN SERVICEMAN.

FROM CASE NUMBER 0421 IN THE INVESTIGATIVE FILES OF THE CHIEF RICK STONE AND FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, LEARN HOW A MARINE WAS LATE REPORTING FOR DUTY AFTER A SHORT FURLOUGH WAS GRANTED HIM WHEN HE COMPLETED TRAINING TO BE A “BARAGE BALLOON CREWMAN”.

WE THINK HIS TARDINESS PROMPTED HIS TRANSFER TO A COMBAT UNIT WHERE HE BECAME AN MIA IN HIS VERY FIRST ACTION . IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SOMETHING SO SIMPLE AS MISSING A TRAIN RIDE COST THIS YOUNG MARINE HIS LIFE?

STAY TUNED TO FIND OUT THE ANSWER ON THIS EPISODE OF "NO HOME FOR HEROES".

EPISODE 21 IS CAPTURED FROM CASE NUMBER 0322 IN THE INVESTIGATIVE FILES OF THE CHIEF RICK STONE AND FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

WE THINK HIS CRASH SITE MAY HAVE BEEN FOUND BUT, AND THERE IS ALWAYS A BUT IN HISTORIES’ MILITARY MYSTERIES, THE REMAINS OF THE PILOT COULD NOT BE IDENTIFIED AFTER THE WAR. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT MODERN DNA SCIENCE CAN PROVIDE THE KEY TO SOLVING THIS 75 YEAR OLD MYSTERY?  MAYBE…BUT THERE ARE PROBLEMS EVEN MODERN SCIENCE WILL NEED TO OVERCOME.

STAY TUNED AND WE WILL TELL YOU THE FULL STORY ON TODAY’S “NO HOME FOR HEROES”

TODAY'S EPISODE WILL REVEAL THE LINK TO SEVEN MARINES WHO LOST THEIR LIVES TOGETHER IN THE WANING HOURS OF THE BATTLE OF TARAWA AND WERE BURIED SIDE BY SIDE WITH THEIR GRAVES CAREFULLY MARKED ON A MILITARY MAP AND THE GRID COORDINATES WERE LISTED IN EACH MARINE’S RECORDS.

BUT, THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY ASSIGNED TO FIND MIA’S CAN’T SEEM TO READ THE MAP. HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN? I’M NOT SURE WE’LL HAVE THE ANSWER TO BEING “ACUTELY DYSFUNCTIONAL” BUT STAY TUNED AND WE WILL TELL YOU THE FULL STORY ON TODAY’S “NO HOME FOR HEROES.”

Episode 19 of NO HOME FOR HEROES describes the case of a World War II American submarine that was listed as "Lost With All Hands" on her sixth war patrol in 1943.  The details of the loss was officially listed as being under unknown circumstances.  But today's episode will solve that mystery for you.

And, there is even more mystery in the loss of the USS Triton.  Her ship's bell is today on display at the Navy's Great Lakes Naval Training Center, even though the ship has never been found.  How did this happen?  Stay tuned to learn the story of the USS Triton and the amazing discovery of her ship's bell decades after the loss of the ship.