During the summer, Montie Montgomery, who has produced nearly all of my little recordings, asked if I’d do a few more. I’d been wanting to do one about the care taken by graves registration teams to identify lost remains from WWII, including Danny Wilson. Based with the 15th Air Force near Foggia, Italy, he was KIA February 19, 1945, at Schwanberg, Austria, where he was buried the first time.
The remains of Lt. Daniel S. Wilson were reburied two more times. It’s a poignant story, but a precious one for the family.
This was first aired September 10, six years after the first one was carried by WHO-Radio in 2018. You may listen to it here. It lasts about 10 minutes, after 3 minutes of ads.
Danny Wilson’s story is also told in Leora’s Letters and What Leora Never Knew, with his photo in the center of both book covers.
Here are others produced by Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb.