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February 27, 2023February 27, 2023joynealkidney

The Early Life of a Remarkable Woman! Review of Leora’s Early Years

February 15, 2023February 15, 2023joynealkidney

Interview by Dennis Peterson: “She Published Her First Book at Age 75!”

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023joynealkidney

Searching for the Missing, Decades Later–Two Books by Kenneth Breaux

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023joynealkidney

Free Leora eBooks Through Saturday

September 23, 2022September 24, 2022joynealkidney

Gold Star Mother’s Day

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022joynealkidney

Heartbreak House, the Kansas City Quartermaster Depot

January 27, 2022July 13, 2022joynealkidney

“Letters From Uncle Dave,” a Engrossing Book by Phil Rosenkrantz

January 17, 2022January 18, 2022joynealkidney

Leora Wilson’s Date Bread Recipe – 1955

September 8, 2021June 27, 2022joynealkidney

Kansas City Quartermaster Depot

September 3, 2021October 21, 2021joynealkidney

Five Surprising Things about Author Steve Snyder

August 16, 2021August 16, 2021joynealkidney

Military Service Members Related to Leora Wilson

June 14, 2021June 27, 2022joynealkidney

Flag Day

March 24, 2021March 25, 2021joynealkidney

Women’s History Month: Doris (Wilson) Neal, Written by her Grandson

February 22, 2021May 8, 2021joynealkidney

Iowa Native Hubert Caloud, Superintendent of the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France

December 7, 2020December 7, 2022joynealkidney

December 7, 1941

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020joynealkidney

Danny Wilson: October 1947 Pamphlets “Disposition of World War II Armed Forces Dead” and “American Cemeteries”

July 17, 2020July 12, 2020joynealkidney

Warren Neal: B-29 Superfortress Commander

June 1, 2020December 2, 2020joynealkidney

Uncle Bill’s WWII

May 25, 2020September 29, 2020joynealkidney

Artist Ray Sorensen’s Freedom Rocks: Iowa Memorial Day Treasures

May 19, 2020May 19, 2021joynealkidney

The USS Yorktown (CV-5) Located Three Miles Deep

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020joynealkidney

Washington Township School

December 13, 2019February 11, 2021joynealkidney

Drew’s Chocolates for Servicemen at Christmastime

October 16, 2019March 6, 2023joynealkidney

Bitter Ocean: The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945

October 14, 2019January 12, 2021joynealkidney

Dallas County Heroes Listed on the Freedom Rock Storyboard

June 7, 2019June 7, 2019joynealkidney

Church Bells Heralded My Birth

June 3, 2019December 14, 2021joynealkidney

Nazi Submarine U-505, Captured the Day I was Born

March 22, 2019August 16, 2022joynealkidney

Radio Tokyo Named Dale Wilson a POW

February 25, 2019March 3, 2019joynealkidney

Dale Wilson: Cadet Training

January 30, 2019May 19, 2019joynealkidney

LST 388: A World War II Journal

November 27, 2018September 22, 2020joynealkidney

Dale Wilson’s Crew: Missing in Action

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