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From Maclay to Zama

From Maclay to Zama

By: Karen Miller
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History Podcast based on letters written home from Japan during the Korean War by two very different sisters.

Karen Miller 2024
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Episodes
  • Episode 47 San Francisco
    Jun 20 2025

    Their friend, Kathy is breaking her contract and going home to San Francisco. Bern describes a typical Saturday at Zama in great detail. Their Christmas gifts are on their way to Pennsylvania and they include an article explaining how schools run in Japan.

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    39 mins
  • Episode 46 Metamorphosis
    Jun 17 2025

    So the diet didn't provide the "metamorphosis" they wanted- just hallucinations. The typhoon season was harsh but they made it through and this episode contains one of Peg's funniest letters ever!

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    39 mins
  • Episode 45 Typhoon June
    Jun 13 2025

    Peg downplays the effects of one of the most dangerous typhoons to ever hit Japan- "we are OK", MIGs shoot down a jet, and Labor Day festivities are a bust.

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    34 mins

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