Hometown Heroes Radio

100-year-old on Ham Radio as K5IFS  100-year-old Ellis Fish of Albuquerque, NM appears on episode #937 of Hometown Heroes, airing April 11-16, 2026. A native of Missouri, Fish trained as a B-24 radioman and gunner during World War II.

New World War II Book Releases March 10th  Use controls above or click here to open this Hometown Heroes podcast in a new window Episode #927 of Hometown Heroes, debuting January 31, 2026, features historian, filmmaker, and N.Y. Times bestselling author Sara Vladic discussing her upcoming release, The Dangerous Shore.

Final Survivor of Last U.S. Ship Sunk by German forces in WWII  Use controls above or click here to open this Hometown Heroes podcast in a new window Episode #926 of Hometown Heroes, airing January 24-29, 2026, celebrates Richard Burbine of Bridgeport, CA, in the wake of his 100th birthday. Burbine served in the […]

Meet Four African-American World War II Veterans  Use controls above or click here to open this Hometown Heroes podcast in a new window Episode #925 of Hometown Heroes, airing January 17-22, 2026, features the World War II memories of four of the approximately one million African-Americans whose service in a segregated World War II […]

Historic Aircraft & Veteran Docents  Use controls above or click here to open this Hometown Heroes podcast in a new window Episode #924 of Hometown Heroes, airing January 10-15, 2026, originates from the Palm Springs Air Museum, home to more than 75 historic aircraft in five hangars. We’ll hear from four docents, all of […]

Book Signing in Fresno, CA on October 15thUse controls above or click here to open this Hometown Heroes podcast in a new windowEpisode #911 of Hometown Heroes, airing October 11-16, 2025, features 99-year-old World War II veteran Vern Schmidt, as well as one of the authors of the new book about his life. On Wednesday, […]

Memories from Five World War II VeteransUse controls above or click here to open this Hometown Heroes podcast in a new windowEpisode #873 of Hometown Heroes, airing January 18-23, 2025, marks Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with the memories of five of the roughly one million African-American veterans of World War II.

Memorials and Museum in Periers, FranceUse controls above or click here to open this Hometown Heroes podcast in a new windowEpisode #872 of Hometown Heroes, airing January 11-16, 2025, features Christian Levaufre explaining how he and his father came to establish memorials and a museum in Periers, France for their town’s liberators, the “Tough Ombres” […]

90th Infantry Division’s Gene KleindlUse controls above or click here to open this Hometown Heroes podcast in a new window102-year-old Gene Kleindl of Rockford, IL appears on episode #871 of Hometown Heroes, airing January 4-9, 2025. A medic with the 90th Infantry Division’s 358th Regiment, Kleindl shares memories from the Normandy Campaign, the Battle of […]

Memories from Four SurvivorsUse controls above or click here to open this Hometown Heroes podcast in a new windowEpisode #870 of Hometown Heroes, airing December 28, 2024 – January 2, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge through the perspectives of four World War II veterans who survived America’s largest and […]