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Authors: Larkin Spivey

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April 2: To Shave

April 3: Responsibility

April 4: A Strong Bulkhead

April 5: Monty’s Prayer

April 6: The Führer

April 7: God of the Free

April 8: Ike

April 9: An Orgy of Disorder

April 10: Grand Entrance

April 11: Vital Lessons

April 12: An Old Ally

April 13: The Hand of God

April 14: A Prayer

April 15: Father, Forgive Them

April 16: He’s Our Guy

April 17: Innovations

April 18: Unconditional Surrender

April 19: Lost Friends

April 20: Purple Heart Box

April 21: Red Oak

April 22: Rite of Purification

April 23: May I Fulfill My Duty

April 24: Seventeen Minutes

April 25: It Might Have Come Off

April 26: Straightforward Job

April 27: The Desert

April 28: Greatest Cathedrals

April 29: Ernie Pyle

April 30: Down to Bed Rock

May

Intro: Advance in the Western Pacific

May 1: Hearing God

May 2: 106 Miles through the Valley

May 3: The Fighting Chaplain

May 4: Boot Camp

May 5: The Code

May 6: White Linen

May 7: Inbeat

May 8: Hearing the Call

May 9: Chesty

May 10: Chaplain Controversy

May 11: Manila John

May 12: Munro

May 13: Why?

May 14: Looking for a Divine Hand

May 15: Tokyo Rose

May 16: Jungle Fighting

May 17: Savo Island

May 18: The Parson

May 19: Personal Responsibility

May 20: Thanksgiving

May 21: Love Your Enemy

May 22: Nails in a Sure Place

May 23: To Die Is Gain

May 24: Shipboard Communion

May 25: Up to God

May 26: I Looked Up

May 27: Another Kind of Race

May 28: Patsy Li

May 29: Miracle Child

May 30: An Act of Love

May 31: Moral Power

June

Intro: The Fight for Sicily and Italy

June 1: The Mosta Dome

June 2: Do What You Can

June 3: Every Private Was a General

June 4: Memorial

June 5: To Stay and Fight

June 6: Frontline Service

June 7: A Greater Fellowship

June 8: Abide with Me

June 9: Family Roots

June 10: For Soldiers and Sailors

June 11: Hanging Upside Down

June 12: How Would They Handle This?

June 13: I’ve Been Blessed

June 14: They Did It without Complaining

June 15: My Mule

June 16: Mother’s Son

June 17: Ignorance Is Bliss

June 18: Hidden Danger

June 19: One of Three Results

June 20: Without Faith

June 21: Why Do Men Do That?

June 22: He Was Not Alone

June 23: Still Small Voice

June 24: Shaken but Grateful

June 25: Three Hymn Books

June 26: We Need to Care

June 27: He Knew No Enemy

June 28: God Bless America

June 29: The Slapping Incident

June 30: Beat VMI

July

Intro: The Air War

July 1: We Pay You

July 2: We Won’t Do Much Talking

July 3: A View from a New Angle

July 4: A Fifty-Cent Item

July 5: A Triumphant Conscience

July 6: A Different View of the War

July 7: A Greater Hand Than Mine

July 8: Better Off Angry

July 9: Hogie and Wac

July 10: The Weaver

July 11: Holes in the Fuselage

July 12: Brownie’s Faith

July 13: Commitment

July 14: Every Day Is Monday

July 15: God, Get Us Out of Here

July 16: I Will Pay It Gladly

July 17: Join Ups in the Dark

July 18: Ploesti

July 19: Redemption

July 20: The Wrong Seat

July 21: A Prayer of Thanks

July 22: Repetitive Training

July 23: Sixty-two Missions and an Outcast

July 24: The Greatest Compliment

July 25: The Hunters

July 26: The Men Were Noble

July 27: The Missions Had to Be Flown

July 28: The Real Hero

July 29: We Trusted in Prayer

July 30: What Would I Do?

July 31: To Stay at Home

August

Intro: War on the Home Front

August 1: Face to the Coal

August 2: Prayer and Sacrifice

August 3: Stockings

August 4: North Platte Canteen

August 5: Patience with Humanity

August 6: Comforting a Mother

August 7: Family Relationships

August 8: For Those Who Suffer

August 9: I’ll Wait for You Forever

August 10: Miracle of Radio

August 11: Missing in Action

August 12: Physical Separation

August 13: Pocket Prayers

August 14: Pride and Anguish

August 15: Rationing

August 16: Sex Rank

August 17: The Conductor

August 18: The Dream

August 19:
The Risen Soldier

August 20: Our Love Is of God

August 21: D-Day Prayer for the Troops

August 22: D-Day Prayer for the Nation

August 23: This Is Your Daddy

August 24: It’s Too Hard

August 25: Dear John

August 26: Candlelight Service

August 27: Letter to MacArthur

August 28: If You’ll Sort the Socks

August 29: An Unexpected Benefit

August 30: No Self-Righteousness

August 31: Pass the Ammunition

September

Intro: The Central Pacific Campaign

September 1: War of Attrition

September 2: The Spiritual Campaign

September 3: Our Faith Is Complete

September 4: How to Pray

September 5: Thirty-Second Prayers

September 6: Time to Think

September 7: No Atheists

September 8: The Voice of a Man Who Believed

September 9: God’s Timing

September 10: Droplets on a Parched Heart

September 11: I Do

September 12: Corpsman

September 13: Children of God

September 14: A Drumstick or a Wing?

September 15: Knee Work

September 16: I’ll Prove He’s a Bum

September 17: The Definition of Courage

September 18: When the Roll Is Called

September 19: Mascot

September 20: Overwhelming Odds

September 21: Powder in the Scuttle

September 22: Reaching Back

September 23: The Proud and the Humble

September 24: The Seagull

September 25: Mama Planted the Seeds

September 26: Payback

September 27: Seventy-eight Degrees

September 28: Turn On the Lights

September 29: Yamamato

September 30: Do We Believe in Prayer?

October

Intro: The Invasion of France

October 1: The Change Was Electric

October 2: The Great Crusade

October 3: Creating a Bond

October 4: Shipboard Service

October 5: The Soldier’s Load

October 6: Soldiers of Our Savior

October 7: Moment of Reckoning

October 8: Lips Moving Wordlessly

October 9: Trees

October 10: Broken

October 11: Forward Observer

October 12: I Didn’t Feel Too Good

October 13: Follow Me

October 14: Fieldstripping an M-1

October 15: First through the Wire

October 16: To Train for the Kingdom

October 17: I Was Talking to Him

October 18: Hero of Omaha

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