This summer enjoy "JON'S TOP 10 WWII STORIES" every Friday morning at 12:30 am- a great choice for our night hawks! To find more like this one, check out our website www.bestof 1001stories.com then "episodes", "categories"- dropdown
"Last Stands and Long Shots".

On October 25, 1944, through a series of naval movements, a small 13 ship destroyer task force found itself the only thing between a huge 23 ship Japanese battle fleet and the American landing force attempting to free the Japanese held Philippine Islands. When the choice came to run south, one destroyer commander named Ernest Evans,a Cherokee Indian who had joined to fight, charged the entire Japanese fleet alone, guns blazing and torpedoes firing, while the crew of largest battleship in the world, the Yamato, watched in stunned amazement. This incredibly brave action gave the rest of the small support force named Taffy 3 the incentive to attack, which they did, ultimately wreaking huge damage upon the surprised Japanese fleet, saving the Philippine invasion,and handing the Japanese navy a defeat from which they never recovered.

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On the 26th of March, 1863, the first six Medals of Honor were awarded to 6 surviving members of the Andrew's Raiders, who, one year earlier , had participating in a daring union raid into the south to commandeer a railroad engine and hobble Confederate supply lines around Chattanooga. The first of the six went to private Jacob Parrott.

This is the story.

Resources:
• https://www.thoughtco.com/great-locomotive-chase-2360250
• Andrews Raiders - Warfare History Network https://warfarehistorynetwork.com
• Bravery remembered: Civil War raiders recognized for Great Locomotive Chase: https://www.army.mil
• Great Locomotive Chase - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase
• Marker Monday: Western & Atlantic Railroad Tunnel - Georgia Historical Society https://georgiahistory.com
• The Great Locomotive Chase - AMERICAN HERITAGE https://www.americanheritage.com
• The Great Locomotive Chase - Largest U.S. Army Veteran Directory + Service History Archive https://www.togetherweserved.com
• The Great Locomotive Chase - WVTF https://www.wvtf.org
• The Great Locomotive Chase: The First Awarded Medals of Honor https://www.cmoh.org
Capturing a Locomotive: My Account of the Great Railroad Adventure by Rev. William Pittenger

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Resources:
https://www.thoughtco.com/great-locomotive-chase-2360250

Andrews Raiders - Warfare History Network https://warfarehistorynetwork.com

Bravery remembered: Civil War raiders recognized for Great Locomotive Chase: https://www.army.mil

Great Locomotive Chase - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase

Marker Monday: Western & Atlantic Railroad Tunnel - Georgia Historical Society https://georgiahistory.com

The Great Locomotive Chase - AMERICAN HERITAGE https://www.americanheritage.com

The Great Locomotive Chase - Largest U.S. Army Veteran Directory + Service History Archive https://www.togetherweserved.com

The Great Locomotive Chase - WVTF https://www.wvtf.org

The Great Locomotive Chase: The First Awarded Medals of Honor https://www.cmoh.org

Capturing a Locomotive: My Account of the Great Railroad Adventure by Rev. William Pittenger

Music and Sound Effect Credit:
Sound Effect by Kammerin Hunt from Pixabay: Run

Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay: One Train, Men working, small steam locomotive, steam train at crossing, train horn and passing

Sound Effect by Pig Bank - Mood from Pixabay: Rain

Sound Effect by Sandro Lima from Pixabay: Train #3

Sound Effect by Roger Harding from Pixabay: Steam Engine Pulling Away

Sound Effect by Paweł Spychała from Pixabay: Train Passing

Production Assistant:
Gizelle Erickson - Imagination Weaver

Our 12 stories: 1) Frank Finkel, survived Custer's Last Stand; 2) Vesna Voluvik, sole survivor of terrorist-caused airplane crash over Czech republic 1972; 3) Julieanne Koepcke, when her plane broke up, she fell two miles, strapped in her seat, and landed in the Amazon Rain Forest, where she survived 11 days with multiple injuries until finding help;, 4) Salvador Alvarenga, out for a day of fishing with his friend, was blown further out ton sea in a storm, and survived 438 days at sea with no supplies; 5) Aron Ralston, exploring a remote canyon in Utah, had is arm trapped by a boulder and after 6 days, realizing he could not free himself, cut off his own arm in order to survive; 6) William Bryden, a surgeon with the British Army in Afghanistan, survived an ambush that killed 4,500 of his fellow soldiers and thousands of non-combatants; 7) 13 tear old Bahia Bakari, with a broken collarbone, hung onto a piece of plane wreckage in the Indian Ocean for 9 hours in choppy water, to become the only survivor of that disaster; 8) Peter Siebold civilian astronaut on a Virgin Galactic flight, survived falling from 55,000 feet when the rocket disintegrated; 9) Lt. Col Vivian Statham, serving as a nurse in Indonesia in WWII, survived a massacre by the attacking Japanese as she and her fellow nurses were forced naked into the ocean before being shot in the back; 10) Ben S. Cauley, trumpet player for the Barkays, survived the plane wreck that took mthe lives of Otis Redding and most of the band; 11) Alexander Selkirk complained to his ships captain of the terrible working conditions aboard that ship and was marooned on a deserted island, where he survived for three years ; 12) Marcus Latrell, Navy Seal, survived an ambush by Taliban warriors in Afghanistan and went on to write his biography which became a movie.

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