Hometown Heroes with Paul Loeffler airs every Saturday at
1 p.m. on Fresno, California's KMJ 580 AM.

With a different veteran of World War II featured each week,
Hometown Heroes is a free-flowing journey back in time,
complete with music from the 1940s. The purpose of the
program is threefold:

1. To honor the service of men and women who joined 16
million other Americans serving in our military during
World War II.

2. To preserve for posterity the memories of those
veterans, and their unique perspectives on the history they
experienced first-hand.

3. To inspire current and future generations of Americans
to live up to the legacy of service and sacrifice that our
"Greatest Generation" has provided for us.
August 17, 2008: Bill Bastian, 203rd Engineer Combat Battalion,
6th Engineer Special Brigade
October 12, 2008: Russell Elder - 2nd Engineer Special Brigade
October 5, 2008: Al Sciacqua, U.S. Coast Guard
September 28, 2008: John Wolfshorndl - U.S. Army Air Corps, CBI
September 21, 2008: Don Potts - U.S. Navy Lighter Than Air program
September 14, 2008: Guy Hardin - U.S. Navy, Pearl Harbor Survivor
September 7, 2008: Tony Augustine - 310th Combat Engineer Battalion
August 30, 2008: Earl Watson - 1317th Engineer General Service Regiment
August 24, 2008: Eli Setencich - P-47 Thunderbolt pilot, 526th Fighter-Bomber
Squadron, 86th Fighter-Bomber Group
August 10, 2008: Francis Cauwels - Purple Heart Recipient
August 3, 2008: Norris Jernigan - 509th Composite Group
July 27, 2008: Claude Gasio, Military Order of the Purple Heart
July 20, 2008: Edgar Deatherage
July 13, 2008: Bob McNutt - Pearl Harbor Survivor, USS Monaghan
July 6: 2008: Fumio "Ike" Ikeda - Nisei veteran - M.I.S.
October 19, 2008: Len Bourdet - 96th Infantry Division, Okinawa
October 26, 2008: Merci Train Boxcar - Beth Spiegel, Jim Cardella,
Ralph Bivings, Gordon Redtfeldt
July 18, 2009: Murrell Twibell - U.S.S. Enterprise
July 11, 2009: Ralph Johnson - 94th Bomb Group Bombardier
July 4, 2009: Bill Cahow - B-17 Bomber Pilot
June 27, 2009: Daryl Slusher - Joint Services Honor Command; Earl Watson
June 20, 2009: Don Ball - B-17 Radioman/gunner
June 13, 2009: Lee Angelich - USS Rixey
June 6, 2009: Robert Angelich -
May 30, 2009: From WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C.
May 23, 2009: From USS Arizona Memorial - Pearl Harbor survivors        
                      Herb Weatherwax and Alfred Rodrigues
May 9, 2009:
May 2, 2009: Louis Munschy
August 22, 2009: George Heimbuch, ex-Prisoner of War.