Episode – 0490 : Tokyo Rose & Axis Sally Podcast Transcript During World War II, allied soldiers would often spend their time listening to the radio. They could, at least […]
Episode – 0488 : Skunkworks
Episode – 0488 : Skunkworks Podcast Transcript 62 miles north of Los Angeles in the city of Palmdale, California, lies one of the most secretive aircraft design and production centers […]
Episode – 0484 : Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Episode – 0484 : Lyudmila Pavlichenko Podcast Transcript In 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a 24-year-old woman in Ukraine volunteered to join the Red Army. She […]
Episode – 0472 : Why Does Monaco Even Exist?
Episode – 0472 : Why Does Monaco Even Exist? Podcast Transcript Located on the French Riveria, just a few kilometers from the border of Italy, sandwiched between the mountains and […]
Episode – 0471 : Navajo Code Talkers
Episode – 0471 : Navajo Code Talkers Podcast Transcript Secrecy is a huge part of military success. You want to be able to communicate with your own forces without the […]
Episode – 0450 : The Nazi Bomb
Episode – 0450 : The Nazi Bomb Podcast Transcript During the second world war, one of the biggest efforts of the war was the Manhattan Project: the secret American program […]
Episode – 0447 : The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
Episode – 0447 : The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact Podcast Transcript When most people think of World War II, they think of the Allied power of the United States, the United Kingdom, […]
Episode – 0436 : The Port Chicago Disaster
Episode – 0436 : The Port Chicago Disaster Podcast Transcript On July 17, 1944, one of the worst disasters to befall the American military during World War II occurred. It […]
Episode – 0415 : Starfish Prime
Episode – 0415 : Starfish Prime Podcast Transcript In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States detonated nuclear bombs on land, on the water, underground, underwater, and in the atmosphere. […]
Episode – 0414 : The Schlieffen Plan
Episode – 0414 : The Schlieffen Plan Podcast Transcript When the Austro-Hungarian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated it set off a chain reaction resulting in the First World War. […]
Episode – 0412 : Black Tot Day
Episode – 0412 : Black Tot Day Podcast Transcript For several hundred years, the British navy was the most powerful in the world. One of the things which the British […]
Episode – 0407 : The USS Indianapolis
Episode – 0407 : The USS Indianapolis Podcast Transcript There were tens of millions of stories to come out of World War II. Many of them are tales of horrible […]
Episode – 0385 : The Children of Nazis
Episode – 0385 : The Children of Nazis Podcast Transcript Almost everyone has a black sheep in their family. Someone who maybe gets in trouble with the law and doesn’t […]
Episode – 0352 : The Assassination of President William McKinley
Episode – 0352 : The Assassination of President William McKinley Podcast Transcript On September 6th, 1901, in Buffalo, New York, the President of the United States, William McKinley was shot […]
Episode – 0343 : Post-WWII German Expulsions
Episode – 0343 : Post-WWII German Expulsions Transcript World War II was unquestionably the greatest bloodletting in world history. Never before had so many people lost their lives in such […]
Episode – 0331 : The St. Nazaire Raid
Episode – 0331 : The St. Nazaire Raid Transcript In 1942, two and a half years into the Second World War, the British were facing a problem. While the British […]
Episode – 0306 : The USS William D. Porter: The Unluckiest Ship in WWII
Episode – 0306 : The USS William D. Porter: The Unluckiest Ship in WWII Transcript During World War II, the United States had a fleet of over 1,200 combat ships. […]
Episode – 0296 : Mad Jack Churchill
Episode – 0296 : Mad Jack Churchill Transcript When you think of battles involving broadswords and longbows you probably thinking back to the time of Braveheart. But what if I […]
Episode – 0293 : DEFCON
Episode – 0293 : DEFCON Transcript Historically, an army could have days, weeks, or even months to prepare for war. However, with the development of intercontinental missiles and nuclear weapons, […]
Episode – 0292 : Hanns Scharff: Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe
Episode – 0292 : Hanns Scharff: Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe Transcript If I were to say “prisoner of war interrogator” something rather menacing probably comes to mind.If I were […]