Episode 165: One Soldier's Story - Bob Dole, Part II

 

Bob Dole finishes the 1942-1943 school year at Kansas University and is almost immediately called up for active duty. His training timeline is changed multiple times - as does the military job he is training for - but once the Allies successfully land at Normandy on D-Day, he know that his time is coming. After being afraid that the war would end before he got into it, he is now sure he will be heading to the European Theater of Operation. 

Episode 164 - Climb to Glory!

The pre-World War II history of my 10th Mountain Division.

 

Episode 163 - One Soldier's Story; Bob Dole, Part I

 

Before he was a Senator, and even before he was a soldier, Bob Dole (right rear) was the second oldest of four children in a family in Russell, Kansas

In high school he was a three-letter varsity athlete. He played football; he ran track; but basketball was his first love, and it is partially why he became the first person in his family to go to college.