HeyJaredStories of Sacrifice - American POW/MIAs
Stories of Sacrifice Podcast are interviews with families of our Nation's POW/MIAs who are currently buried as Unknown in our National Cemeteries or still listed as Missing in Action. These families are trying to get their MIA loved one identified through DNA.
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The Radio Man and the Teacher — Pt 2 The Guerrilla of Baroy (opens the original)
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Show Notes The Radio Man and the Teacher A Stories of Sacrifice episode In this episode we return to the story of 1st Lt. Roy E. Welbon — not only as the lost guerrilla of Baroy, but as a husband. Through newly uncovered documents from the MacArthur Memorial Archives and the powerful 1990 oral history of his wife, Helen Haladay Welbon, we step into the quiet life they built together in Butuan and the choices that war forced upon them. Listeners will hear how a maritime radio operator and a Red C
Baron 52: What the U.S. Intelligence Community Knew — and When (opens the original)
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Baron 52: What the U.S. Intelligence Community Knew — and When Baron 52 (REFNO 1983) Date: August 2026 Three months after Baron 52 went down, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon’s senior civilian official for POW/MIA affairs still treated the survival of the crew as an open analytical question. A year later, language about four Americans believed captured in Laos reached the President of the United States. In this episode we examine the American intelligence record that has long sat
From 44 to 93 — Group 210, Mr. Van, and the Baron 52 Intercept (opens the original)
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On the night of 5 February 1973, just nine days after the Paris Peace Accords were signed, an NSA intercept reported that Group 210 was holding four “pirates” and moving them from kilometer location 44 to kilometer location 93 under the control of “Mr. Van,” while experiencing difficulties along the road. In this episode we examine the full body of evidence now surrounding that intercept. We identify Group 210 as the 210th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, reinforced into the Division 471 sector
The Lost Guerrilla of Baroy – The Search for 1st Lt. Roy E. Welbon (opens the original)
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In this episode, we tell the story of First Lieutenant Roy E. Welbon — a Canadian-American mariner turned guerrilla communications officer — who was killed defending a radio station in Baroy, Lanao del Norte, in January 1944. We explore how contemporary evidence, declassified documents, and modern forensic methods are giving new hope to a case long considered closed. Main Topics: Roy Welbon’s maritime career as a radio operator and his transition to guerrilla communications in the 10th Military
The Evidence - Gold Star Families Appeal to Under Secretary Anthony J. Tata (opens the original)
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In this special episode, we present a formal appeal to Under Secretary of War Anthony J. Tata, whose responsibilities include oversight of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and related POW/MIA policy matters. We examine significant new evidence that has emerged since the 2016 DPAA review of the Baron 52 incident (REFNO 1983). This includes previously unavailable Vietnamese primary sources from the PAVN 471st Division and detailed analysis of declassified U.S. SIGINT. This evidence indicates
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