<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1653988/open_sms">Send us a Text Message.</a>This bonus episode is an historic overview of The Cunard Line&apos;s RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Queen Mary.   The Silver King, Second Lieutenant Stanley L. Silverfield, rode this ocean liner to his war in late September 1944.  His POE was New York harbor&apos;s Brooklyn Terminal.  Stanley wrote effusively about this Atlantic crossing.  He enjoyed the simple pleasures of life as an Air Corps officer.  Cunard converted the RMS QM to a troop transport ship after the Second World War began in September 1939. The ocean liner sailed to Australia during the spring of 1940 for its conversion and began transporting Australian and New Zealand troops to England for the allied invasion operations.<ul> <li>Contact us: thesilverkingswar@gmail.com </li> <li>Please review The Silver King&apos;s War on Apple Podcasts</li> <li>Share our hero, The Silver King, with family &amp; friends</li> <li>Share The Silver King&apos;s War on social media</li> <li>Thank you for listening to our podcast</li> </ul>

Europe Letters: September/October 1944 (1)

"The Silver King's War" is a podcast series (with episode transcripts available on Applecast) of World War II plays (The Silver King, Marauder Men, Serviceman and Who Is Della) based on true events about a young man, Stanley Silverfield, who joins the United States Army Air Corps to serve his country as a Martin Marauder B-26 Bombardier flying in the 9th Air Force.&nbsp; Stanley wrote letters to his family throughout World War II from January 1943 to October 1945. An exploration of his war letters, “Dearest Ones,” follows the four plays.&nbsp; The series concludes with a trilogy of plays, "The Silverfields of Northbrook," which follows the family's 1950s Midwest suburban life. Stanley, born in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 23, 1923, died on October 15, 1990, in Rockford, Illinois. He was 67. The Silver King is my dad.&nbsp; Please enjoy and share "The Silver King's War."