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Accidentally HistoricAuthor: Historical Society of Pottawattamie County
Council Bluffs location has put the town into contact with a lot of history. Lewis and Clark and the Mormon pilgrims came through, as did the westbound pioneers on the Oregon and California Trails. Abraham Lincoln designated the town as milepost zero for the transcontinental railroad. The first coast-to-coast automobile trip passed through and later the first transcontinental highway. Council Bluffs was the birthplace of Omaha and first war-time mobile hospital. It also boasted the states first nursing school and FM radio station as well as the largest rotary cell jail ever built. This all created a lot of what we call history-- but at the time it wasnt intended that way at all. It was just normal people finding innovative ways to solve problems, inventing the future one day at a time. And that has made for some really interesting tales that we intend to explore in this podcast series. Language: en Genres: History Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Invisible Excellence- WWI Armistice Signed, Unit K/Mobile One Returns Home
Episode 37
Saturday, 17 January, 2026
The sixth and final episode of our “Invisible Excellence” podcast series sees Council Bluffs Unit K’s remarkable wartime experience finally reaching its end. Titled “The WWI Armistice Signed, Unit K/Mobile One Returns Home,” this installment follows the nurses, officers, and enlisted personnel as they first ever battlefield hospital to move along the front lines undertake the protracted journey back to the U.S. and to their respective post-war lives.
