One-hundred-year-old Jim Kehl is one of the last surviving US Navy ship captains from World War II. Jim served aboard LSM-144 and LSM-145 and traveled tens-of-thousands of miles across the Pacific in 1944 and 1945, including the invasions of the Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa. On March 22, 2022, Todd DePastino interviewed Jim
John Mitchell, Rick Rogala, Stu Russell, and Earl Phares were captured by North Korea in 1968 and held for 11 months as POWs. They join us again with Jack Cheevers, author of Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo. Also joining us is retired Navy Commander Jim
Lt. James Kehl, 1946 One-hundred-year-old Jim Kehl of Pittsburgh, PA, is one of the last surviving US Navy ship captains from World War II. Jim served aboard LSM-144 and LSM-145 and traveled tens-of-thousands of miles across the Pacific in 1944 and 1945, including the invasions of the Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa. He
WWII Navy WAVE codebreaker Julia Parsons is celebrating here 101st birthday today! We'll talk with Julia and celebrate her day with special guests, including the world's leading expert on the Enigma Machine, Dr. Tom Perera.
No one "lands" on an aircraft carrier, the saying goes. They only "crash" in a controlled manner. On January 24, a F-35C Lightning II had an uncontrolled crash-landing on the USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea. The event wasn't reported, but someone in the Navy leaked a 51-second video that shows the flaming jet hitting
. . Joe Wisniewski saw a lot of action while serving in the Mekong Delta region at a base maintaining 20 patrol boats from 1968-69. Interview video any description
