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Authors: Larkin Spivey

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July 13: Commitment
July 14: Every Day Is Monday
July 15: God, Get Us Out of Here
July 16: I Will Pay It Gladly
July 17: Join Ups in the Dark
July 18: Ploesti
July 19: Redemption
July 20: The Wrong Seat
July 21: A Prayer of Thanks
July 22: Repetitive Training
July 23: Sixty-two Missions and an Outcast
July 24: The Greatest Compliment
July 25: The Hunters
July 26: The Men Were Noble
July 27: The Missions Had to Be Flown
July 28: The Real Hero
July 29: We Trusted in Prayer
July 30: What Would I Do?
July 31: To Stay at Home

August—War on the Homefront

Intro: War on the Home Front
August 1: Face to the Coal
August 2: Prayer and Sacrifice
August 3: Stockings
August 4: North Platte Canteen
August 5: Patience with Humanity
August 6: Comforting a Mother
August 7: Family Relationships
August 8: For Those Who Suffer
August 9: I’ll Wait for You Forever
August 10: Miracle of Radio
August 11: Missing in Action
August 12: Physical Separation
August 13: Pocket Prayers
August 14: Pride and Anguish
August 15: Rationing
August 16: Sex Rank
August 17: The Conductor
August 18: The Dream
August 19: The Risen Soldier
August 20: Our Love Is of God
August 21: D-Day Prayer for the Troops
August 22: D-Day Prayer for the Nation
August 23: This Is Your Daddy
August 24: It’s Too Hard
August 25: Dear John
August 26: Candlelight Service
August 27: Letter to MacArthur
August 28: If You’ll Sort the Socks
August 29: An Unexpected Benefit
August 30: No Self-Righteousness
August 31: Pass the Ammunition

September—The Central Pacific Campaign

Intro: The Central Pacific Campaign
September 1: War of Attrition
September 2: The Spiritual Campaign
September 3: Our Faith Is Complete
September 4: How to Pray
September 5: Thirty-Second Prayers
September 6: Time to Think
September 7: No Atheists
September 8: The Voice of a Man Who Believed
September 9: God’s Timing
September 10: Droplets on a Parched Heart
September 11: I Do
September 12: Corpsman
September 13: Children of God
September 14: A Drumstick or a Wing?
September 15: Knee Work
September 16: I’ll Prove He’s a Bum
September 17: The Definition of Courage
September 18: When the Roll Is Called
September 19: Mascot
September 20: Overwhelming Odds
September 21: Powder in the Scuttle
September 22: Reaching Back
September 23: The Proud and the Humble
September 24: The Seagull
September 25: Mama Planted the Seeds
September 26: Payback
September 27: Seventy-eight Degrees
September 28: Turn On the Lights
September 29: Yamamato
September 30: Do We Believe in Prayer?

October—The Invasion of France

Intro: The Invasion of France
October 1: The Change Was Electric
October 2: The Great Crusade
October 3: Creating a Bond
October 4: Shipboard Service
October 5: The Soldier’s Load
October 6: Soldiers of Our Savior
October 7: Moment of Reckoning
October 8: Lips Moving Wordlessly
October 9: Trees
October 10: Broken
October 11: Forward Observer
October 12: I Didn’t Feel Too Good
October 13: Follow Me
October 14: Fieldstripping an M-1
October 15: First through the Wire
October 16: To Train for the Kingdom
October 17: I Was Talking to Him
October 18: Hero of Omaha
October 19: Take the Skillet off the Stove
October 20: He Speaks French
October 21: The Nun
October 22: The Little Pocket Bible
October 23: No Distant Unknown
October 24: It Might as Well Be in a Church
October 25: Fate
October 26: All Right, God
October 27: D-Day Message
October 28: Christian Soldiers
October 29: Weather for Overlord
October 30: In Case of Failure
October 31: D-Day Remembered

November—Victory in Europe

Intro: Victory in Europe
November 1: Bonhoeffer
November 2: Bonhoeffer on Freedom
November 3: Action and Freedom
November 4: Suffering and Freedom
November 5: Death and Freedom
November 6: The Church Must Confess
November 7: Don’t Disgrace Your Name
November 8: I Precede You
November 9: Pray for Ourselves
November 10: Prayer for Clear Weather
November 11: A Hymn Book in One Hand
November 12: Guardian Angel
November 13: Malice toward None
November 14: The Only Clean Thing
November 15: Your Cross
November 16: Chaplain’s Letter
November 17: Nativity Scene
November 18: Prayer in a Burning Tank
November 19: Christ, The Risen Soldier
November 20: They Gave All They Had
November 21: Miracle of the Rock
November 22: He Never Spared Himself
November 23: Call on the Lord
November 24: It Was Done by Men
November 25: A German Soldier’s Prayer
November 26: Prisoner of the Lord
November 27: God Is All You’ve Got
November 28: I Go and Prepare a Place
November 29: Nazi Gold
November 30: Our Strength and Shield

December—Victory in the Pacific

Intro: Victory in the Pacific
December 1: God Be Merciful
December 2: Fourth Inaugural Address
December 3: Fourth Honeymoon
December 4: A Soul-Stirring Sight
December 5: An Unseen Enemy
December 6: Emergency Landing
December 7: Nurses
December 8: Divine Wind
December 9: God Is My Co-Pilot
December 10: Faith Will Help
December 11: We the Living
December 12: To Live Together
December 13: A Sorry Swap
December 14: Common Denominator
December 15: Ace of Aces
December 16: Safety in God’s Will
December 17: The Planets Had Fallen
December 18: Potsdam
December 19: Consumed by Your Anger
December 20: Fearful Loneliness
December 21: Divine Providence
December 22: Silent Night
December 23: Looking for the Star
December 24: Christmas on a Corvette
December 25: Merry Christmas
December 26: If Only in My Dreams
December 27: Thank God We Lost the War
December 28: It Must Be of the Spirit
December 29: What We Fought For
December 30: Surrender
December 31: Going Home

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