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2015

Wright State University

World War, 1939-1945

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Dayton Codebreaker Highlights Pride In Contribution To Wwii, Jeremy Dobbins, Will Davis May 2015

Dayton Codebreaker Highlights Pride In Contribution To Wwii, Jeremy Dobbins, Will Davis

Veterans' Voices on WYSO

For some who serve in the military, their work is top secret, and the contribution they make to national security may never be publicly known. The WYSO Veterans' Voices series tells the story of Army veteran John Harshman who, unbeknownst to him, helped crack the code of the German Enigma machines. Those machines were used to encrypt secret messages during World War II.


A Wwii Veteran Shares His Stories In Person, Via Social Media, Jeremy Dobbins, Will Davis Jan 2015

A Wwii Veteran Shares His Stories In Person, Via Social Media, Jeremy Dobbins, Will Davis

Veterans' Voices on WYSO

Jim "Pee Wee" Martin, an World War II Army Veteran, parachuted into Normandy on the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion at the age of 93. Jim was in the now famous 506th parachute infantry regiment featured in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. He was nicknamed “Pee Wee” because he was the lightest man in the unit. At the end of the war, Jim returned to Xenia to build a house, raise a family, and live a modest life. But when Jim got online and connected with social media, his popularity reached celebrity status.