Weber County's Greatest Generation

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Captain Eddie Winkler was reported as missing in action after his plane crashed on August 26, 1944, only to show up at his unit on September 20th.  Eleven days later he was killed in another crash on October 1st in the Himalaya mountains. 

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In connection with last week's podcast, this is the story of three more Weber County boys .

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Sgt. Hunt and Private first class Rose were best friends all through their childhood.  They joined the army together, trained together and went overseas together. They even died together on the same day in Italy. 

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Private Macfarlane was killed in action on the ship the USS Dorchester in the Atlantic on Feburary 2, 1943. 

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Staff Sgt Frank Baron was killed on August 1, 1943 in the attack on the Ploesti oil plants in Romania.

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Find out what happened in Ogden the first Armistice Day in 1918 and take a minute to honor the 22 boys from Weber County who died in World War I.

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Lt. Blakeley died in one of the greatest aerial battle of World War II, fought in North Africa. 

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Lt. Winslow Gardner, co-pilot of his B-17E died on June 1, 1943 in New Britain, in the southwest Pacific.

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This is the story of one of two families in Weber County that lost two sons in World War II.

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The story of cousins, Staff Sgt. Harold Davis and Pfc Wallace Bitton.