Ep 14 Howard Leon Whetten Pt 1 👨‍🌾 Don’t Hate Your Enemies 👨‍🎓

04/01/24 • 29 min

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Howard Leon Whetten: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KWCB-QL4
Family Tree 🌳 ID: KWCB-QL4
From ordinary lives often comes extraordinary experiences. Such is the simple life of Howard Leon Whetten. From his birth in Southern Arizona, to life in old Mexico, and then school and enlisting in New Mexico, Howard’s life does as many did during the days preceding WWII, as it goes from seemingly normal tasks, to nearly superhuman moments.
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Woodrow Wilson (U.S. President)
Nelson Mandela (world leader)
Billy Graham (religious leader)
Sam Walton (founder of WalMart)
Rita Hayworth (actress)
Mary Kay Ash (Mary Kay Cosmetics)
Howard Cosell (sportscaster)
Elizabeth Anne Bloomer (aka Betty Ford)
Mike Wallace (journalist)
Pearl Bailey (stage actress)
Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story)
Robert Wadlow (Tallest person in recorded History @ 8 ft 11.1 inches tall)
Howard Leon Whetten
Warren Ernest Whetten
Adelaide Martineau
Uncle Rose Stocks
Old Bacon the Hound Dog
Melvin Whetten
Old Fan (work mare)
Mr. Webb
Lucille Whetten
Charley Martineau
Clarence Williams
Babe Williams
Maynor Hassell
Call Hakes
Clair Hassell
William Child
Adolf Hitler
Admiral Yamamoto
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
Winston Churchill
Uncle SamLOCATIONS
RussiaDelaware
Codell, Kansas
United States of America
Tucson, Arizona
Old Mexico
Colonia Chuichupa
Black Canyon
Chico, Mexico
El Paso, Texas
Cuidad Juarez, Mexico
Bluewater, New Mexico
Grants, New Mexico
Zuni Mountains
Mount Tailor
Toltac
Roundy’s Well
Bluewater Lake
France
Germany
Poland
Berlin
Britian
Jewett Gap
Quemado, New Mexico
Wai Mōmi
Waters of Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Asia
Pacific
Japan
Southeast Asia
Las Vegas, Nevada
Salt Lake City, Utah
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Ep 13 War & Tragedy at Boykin, South Carolina

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SPECIAL THANKS to Collett Carter for the family history story lead.
The Boykin Mill Pond in South Carolina has been the hub of regional industry for processing grains and timber. In 1865 it was the scene of one of the last battles of the Civil War. And in 1860 it was the hallowed grounds of one of South Carolina’s saddest tragedies.
Flatboat history:
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Individuals in order of mention:
Robert English
Samual Boykin
Israel Mathis
Quincey A. Fillmore
Edward E. Potter
James Fowler Presley
William Alexander McQueen
Joseph Thomas Wilson
54th Massachusetts
James P. Johnson
E.L. Stevens
Burrell H. Boykin
Confederate Home Guard
William T. Sherman
W. H. Garland
Ralph Leland Goodrich
Alexander Leslie McCandless
Amelia A. Alexander
A. H. Boykin
Samual Young
Mary Ann Young
Hollie Young
Names of persons drowned,
Miss Sarah Howell, from Camden;
Miss Celina Crosby, from Camden;
Miss Mary Hinson, from Camden;
Miss Louisa S nettles, from Camden;
Miss Elizabeth McKagan, from Camden;
Miss Margaret McCown, from Camden;
Miss Louisa McCown, from Camden;
Miss Amelia Alexander, from Camden;
Miss Alice Robinson, from Camden;
Miss Jane Kelly, from Boykin
Two daughters and one son of Mr. Samuel H Young, near Boykin;
Miss Jenkins, daughter of Mr. M.D. Jenkins, from Clarksons;
Mr. Jeremiah R. McLeod, Sumter district;
Mr. Jos. Huggins, Sumter district;
Mr. T.S.S. Richbourg, Sumter district;
Mr. Lucius R. Legrand, from Camden;
Mr. William C Legrand, from Camden;
Mr. John A. Oaks, from Camden;
Mr. William McKagen, from Camden;
Mr. B.F. Hocott, from near Camden.
And two Negroes making 24 persons in all.
Individuals Continued...
Mr. Magnet
Hiawatha
Mr. Ancrum

Location:
Boykin, Kershaw County, South Carolina
Camden, South Carolina
Boykin Mill Pond
Swift Creek
Florence, SC
Sumter, SC
Georgetown, SC
Sumter Hospital
Owego, NY
Summerville
Dinkin’s Mill
Fernandina, Florida
Pine Grove Acadamy
New York City
Wilmington, North Carolina
Philadelphia
Delaware
Baltimore
Susquehanna
Washington DC
Richmond
Petersburg
New Jersey
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina College
Kirkwood
Camden Depot
South Carolina Railroad Company

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Ep 15 Howard Leon Whetten Pt 2 ✈️ Midnight’s Watery Grave

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Howard Leon Whetten: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/KWCB-QL4
Family Tree 🌳 ID: KWCB-QL4
In part 2 of this story, the “ordinary life” of Howard Leon Whetten evolves into some extraordinary experiences as he faces certain death in the midnight plunge of his B-24 Bomber into the dark watery grave of the oceans surrounding the Solomon Islands. This very first bombing run turns the simple life into a battle for life. From his home in New Mexico, to the wild legends of the Solomon Islands, Leon’s life is left in the hands of fate & God.
People
Howard Leon Whetten, B-24 Bomber Assistant Radio Operator & Tail Gunner
Keith Mason, 460th Bomb Group PilotAbraham Wald, Polish Immigrant & Jewish Mathematician
Russell Brunson
Admiral Isoroku YamamotoArmy Air Corp
U.S. Naval Intelligence
Japanese
Polish
U.S. Marines
Heavenly Father
Jesus Christ
Mormon
2nd Lieutenant Lord, B-24 Bomber Pilot
2nd Lieutenant Radford, B-24 Bomber co-Pilot
2nd Lieutenant Roark, B-24 Bomber Navigator
2nd Lieutenant Potter, B-24 Bomber Bombadier
Ed Semick, B-24 Bomber Engineer & Nose Turret Gunner
Robert Chapman (Chappy), B-24 Bomber Radio Operator
Claude Meyers, B-24 Bomber Side Gunner
Harold Ewing, B-24 Bomber Side Gunner
Kenneth Winham, B-24 Bomber Gunner
Frankenstein
Orson Wells
Jack Benny, The Jello Program
Bob Hope, Pepsodent ShowLocations
Arizona
Mexico
New Mexico
Pearl Harbor
Columbia University
Eastern Europe
Poland
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
Kukum Field, Guadalcanal
Bougainville Island
Honiara Golf Course
Japan
Lunga Point, Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
United States of America