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Playtone’s Kirk Saduski on Masters of the Air

Streamed live on May 30, 2024 Playtone’s Kirk Saduski talks about creating “Masters of the Air,” as well as working on Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and many other historical features, series, and documentaries. Kirk Saduski has a B.A. in history from UCLA and an M.A. in history from S.F. State. He has been

Recovering WWII Normandy MIA Nathan Baskind

Streamed live on May 27, 2024 We mark Memorial Day with the PFC Lawrence Gordon Foundation's Jed Henry (www.pfclawrencegordonfoundation.org) who, along with Operation Benjamin (www.operationbenjamin.org/nathanbaskind), recently recovered the remains of 1st Lt. Nathan Baskind, who was killed in Normandy near Utah Beach in 1944. In June 1944, Baskind was assigned to Company C, 899th

WWII Tuskegee Airman Harry Stewart

Streamed live on May 23, 2024 WWII P-51 Pilot and Tuskegee Airman Harry Stewart shares his story with us on Greatest Generation Live. Stewart successfully completed 43 missions during World War II and is one of only four Tuskegee Airmen to have earned three aerial victories in a single day of combat. When the

Infantry Culture in the Global War on Terror

Streamed live on May 20, 2024 Marine Stew Blackwell joins us to talk about his new book, Savages: Infantry Culture in the Global War on Terror. In his debut book, Blackwell explores the complex culture, complete with its own value system, of the American warrior serving during the Global War on Terror, known as

WWII B-24 Pilot John Homan

Streamed live on May 16, 2024 Guest John Homan was a B-24 pilot in World War II. He recently published his memoirs, "Into the Cold Blue: My World War II Journeys with the Mighty Eighth Air Force" with Professor Jared Frederick, who also joins us. Into the Cold Blue is a riveting account of

WWII Veteran Yoshio Nakamura, 442nd Regimental Combat Team

Streamed live on May 13, 2024 “We had Japanese faces but American hearts.” So says our special guest Yoshio Nakamura, a Japanese-American born in California. Yoshio experienced first-hand the upheaval of World War II when Japanese-Americans were classified as enemy aliens. He endured internment at Tulare Racetrack and Gila River Camp, facing humiliation and

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