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This trailer introduces The Silver King's War. The podcast series is the story of Stanley L. Silverfield, a World War II, U. S. Army Air Corps, B-26 Bombardier. Michael G. Sievers, the writer, producer & creator of The Silver King's War, explains the work to pursue and tell his father's compelling story through three plays based on Stanley's war writings.

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This is the introduction to The Silver King's War podcast series. The series follows the Second World War of Stanley L. Silverfield, a young aviator from Birmingham, Alabama. Michael G. Sievers, the Silver King's son & creator of the series, narrates his pursuit of Stanley's War. The Silver King's War begins with a series of four plays. Each one is ten episodes including an introduction, eight scenes and a bonus epilogue.

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This episode is Scene One of The Silver King. Our hopeful hero, Stanley Silverfield, travels by troop train from Birmingham, Alabama, to Nashville, Tennessee, to begin his work as an air cadet. He meets JJ Sherry, his war buddy, on this first ride. The Silver King is posted to pre-flight training at Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama, eight days after his arrival.

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This episode is Scene Two of The Silver King. Stanley begins pilot school training at Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama, and finishes at the Lodwick School of Aeronautics in Lakeland, Florida, during April 1943. Stanley wrote 23 letters to his family between April 4th and 28th, 1943.

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This episode is Scene Three of The Silver King. Stanley and his fellow air cadets were posted to Santa Ana Army Air Base to await their next installation assignment. Their bomber school training continued at the Las Vegas Army Gunnery School during the summer of 1943 and finished at the Carlsbad Army Air Base in New Mexico, during January 1944.

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This episode is Scene Four of The Silver King. Stanley, JJ Sherry and Herb Stempler travel east after bomber school graduation for advance training on the B-17 (Flying Fortress) and B-24 (Liberator) at Columbia Army Air Base in Columbia, South Carolina, during the first half of 1944.

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This episode is Scene Five of The Silver King. Stanley and JJ Sherry ship to New York City from Barksdale Army Airfield in Shreveport, Louisiana. They enjoy the city and prepare to cross the Atlantic Ocean on the Queen Mary during late September 1944. This is their ride to reach the European Theater of Operations.

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This episode is Scene Six of The Silver King. Stanley and JJ Sherry, as commissioned officers, ride the Queen Mary, which is now a troop transport ship, across the Atlantic Ocean in late September on their way to the European Theater of Operations. Their specific destination, unknown to them, is an air base in allied territory, perhaps in England or France.

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