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Happy Mother's Day
Veterans Radio wants to wish a Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms in the military. Please send us the name of a Mom you’d like us to honor on Saturday’s program. Send her name, rank and unit to bob@veteransradio.net. And…
This is an Encore Presentation of Veterans Radio from 9 May 2009. Joining Bob and Dale in the studio was Veterans Radio contributor Col. Christine Cook talking about her deployment and how it affected her children. And…
Flying for Her Country

The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of WWII
During the World War II, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time in history. In the United States, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program was formed, where over one thousand women flyers ferried aircraft from factories to airbases throughout the United States and Canada from 1942 to 1944. The WASP flew more than sixty million miles in seventy-eight different types of aircraft, from the smallest trainers to the fastest fighters and the largest bombers. The WASP performed every duty inside the cockpit as their male counterparts, except combat, and thirty-eight women pilots gave their lives in the service of their country.
Yet, notwithstanding their outward appearance as official members of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the WASP were considered civil servants during the war. Despite a highly publicized attempt to militarize in 1944, the women pilots would not be granted veteran status until 1977.
Meanwhile in the Soviet Union, Marina Raskova, Russia’s “Amelia Earhart,”, formed the USSR’s first female aviation regiments that flew combat missions along the Eastern Front. A little over one thousand women flew a combined total of more than thirty thousand combat sorties, producing at least thirty Heroes of the Soviet Union. Included in their ranks were two fighter aces. More than fifty women pilots are believed to have been killed in action.
Join author Amy Goodpaster Strebe and host Dale Throneberry for a very special Mother’s Day Veterans Radio. Ms. Strebe is a journalist, historian, and author of Desert Dogs:The Marines of Operation Iraqi Freedom (2004).
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Veterans Radio is dedicated to all the men and women who have served or are currently serving in the armed forces of the United States of America. Our mission is to see that the world appreciates what extraordinary things ordinary people have done to gain and preserve the freedom we assume everyone enjoys – and the ultimate price that is often paid.
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All Gave Some. Some Gave All. Always Remember www.VeteransRadio.net
Veterans Radio is dedicated to all the men and women who have served or are currently serving in the armed forces of the United States of America. Our mission is to provide all veterans with a voice, to give them a forum where they are able to discuss their issues, and to provide information to all veterans regarding the rights and privileges they earned by serving their country.
Veterans Radio will include our listener's stories and experiences, not only while in the service, but afterwards as well. Interviews with guest speakers and authors will be a weekly feature. The content of the programs on Veterans Radio will ultimately be determined by our listeners.
Veterans Radio feels it is time for our communities to know who among their neighbors was willing to pay the ultimate price to preserve and protect their basic freedoms. Veterans Radio will act as an advocate for veteran's issues. Politics has no place in determining what is fair for America's veterans. Veterans Radio just wants our politicians to keep their promises. We encourage our listeners to get involved in the political process and to make our voices heard.
If you have any suggestions for topics or music you would like to hear, please contact us.
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Dale Throneberry
Veterans Radio
P.O. Box 3085 Ann Arbor, MI 48106
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