Captain John Wheeler Remembered and Honored by Nephew

Jim Wheeler of Bemidji, MN tells the heroic tale of his father's older brother More

Jim Wheeler of Bemidji, MN tells the heroic tale of Captain John Wheeler of the US Army. Jim relates his uncle's youth in St. Paul, MN, and his path to Harvard as a career military officer. Then he continues to John's enlistment in the army and to the Pacific Theater of WWII where Captain Wheeler would be captured and endure the Bataan Death March and a Hellship in Manila Bay.

AIR DATE 5/19/22