Thomas Selfridge

The Grateful Nation Project on “Our American Stories” podcast: Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge

Listen online to Our American Stories (September 25, 2024): The Story of The First Man To Die In an Airplane Crash (11 minutes), or on your favorite podcast platform: Apple Podcasts | iHeart | Spotify

Hosted by Lee Habeeb, the Our American Stories podcast has invited The Grateful Nation Project to contribute recordings of our Heroes’ biographies! OAS is a highly-regarded and popular podcast—also heard on 400+ affiliate radio stations—whose purpose is “Telling the Story of America to Americans.”

Our first contribution tells the story of Thomas Etholen Selfridge (Hero 26, Card Pack 3), one of the pioneers of mechanized flight who—at age 26—was responsible for some significant “firsts.”