Letters Ray To Shirl: A WWII Love Story Podcast
Letters from Raymond J. Konen a Second LT Bombardier in the Army Airforce training stateside back home to his girl Shirley Rutledge who worked as a baank teller in Chicago during the War. Approximately 200 letters span 1943-1947
Episodes
35 episodes
VJ Day and we lost an Engine
Wishing the war would end soon becomes paramount.then it ends while on a routine flight gone wrong
I’m Ignorant and All My Shorts Are Blue
Levity and concern over two letters barely a week after Japan”s stock market crashes due to the dropping of the thing that ended the pacific front as concerns arose that SHIRL should not get to excited about a homecoming because men were still ...
Life Goes On
Ray writes home to his girl SHIRL, shortly after a major turning point in the fight in the Pacific, from stateside
What an airman wrote home on a day that beckoned an era
Ray writes an average letter with some solace some misgivings about barbers and dentists and meets Daniel Boone Herring. Inquires about Shirley’s peaceful day
The Chocolate Syrup Wait
Ray goes AWOL but none suspect and his friends all ship out.
Love and War in 1945
Ray dreams of their life together as a couple of creatives and plots to read a banned book.
Love in the time of B-29’s
Transferred again, Ray moves his way across Nebraska while confiding in Shirley how ready he is to fight.
Letters From A Bombing Run
Ray waxes poetic in his reflections and gets transferred to utah
Love and War by Mail
Ray has the engagement ring and plots to get it to her amidst chiding and the stress of training.
Letters From the Homefront 2
Ray is experiencing a no mail period for two weeks and takes a walk through west Palm
Letters From Last Leave
Ray tries to get a visit together with Shirley but the war has other plans.
Letters From The Homefront
Ray has dinner and a night out with his mother and Myles his stepfather. The ai called Myles the brother. I believe that is the only thing confused. He is lonesome for Shirley and getting nervous about how the war has escalate...
The Secret Radar Base
Ray and Shirley get together in Florida and promise to grow old together doing foolish things in foolish places.
Love and Radar: A Wartime Correspondence
Ray makes officer and comes home from his Christmas retreat. He’s being moved to Boca Raton Fla.
A Bombardier’s Christmas Secret
Close to graduation midwar, Ray plans a Christmas trip home for a visit.
Letters From a B-17 Bombardier
Second Lt Bombardier Ray Konen writes his sweetheart Shirley from stateside training fields in the middle of WWII. Note his brother was Kennard and the ai reading calls bill and Johnie his brothers. Bill was either a close family fr...
The Most Dangerous Night in San Bernardino
Second Lt Bombardier Ray Konen writes his sweetheart after a dangerous night off base in California.
The Brutal Reality of Bombardier Training
What was it like to train as a Bombardier during WWII. Letters reveal bits and pieces. Memory reveals snippets of that life told to a twelve or fourteen year old girl and speechify ai has research done with the letters from the collection...
Eight Hundred Rounds a Minute
A bit about gunnery school and the legacy of letters.
Inside the B-24’s Death Trap
Stories told to a young grandchild of a Second Lt Bombardier through letters and recounts . Additional information provided through ai research through the iOS app speechify
Killer Konen’s Secret Life
The bombardier’s an instructor now and desperate to win back Shirley. Learn snippets of how their life ended up together.
Love and Lethality in 1943
The story of an army Airforce Bombardier and his family through letters home to his wife to be Shirley. This story has a dog story within one of the letters.
The Bombardier’s Secret War
A series of letters in 1943 when Ray tackled technical training balanced with visits from his sweetheart amidst snowstorms of the Midwest.