Jack Boeki grew up in a Jewish family in Rotterdam, Netherlands, a city devastated by infamous German terror bombings and invasion in 1940. As the Nazi occupiers began hunting Dutch Jews for transportation to concentration camps, teenage Jack went into hiding. Like Houdini slipping a straight jacket, Jack managed to escape capture at every
During the Vietnam War, almost half of Viet Cong insurgents lived and worked in the Mekong Delta, the southernmost part of Vietnam crisscrossed by 3,000 miles of canals and streams. The waterways act as river roads and support thick, often impenetrable vegetation perfect for concealing guerrilla operations. In 1967, in an effort to take
One of the most imaginative, unique, and successful elements of the US war effort in Vietnam was the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF), a joint Army-Navy venture in the Mekong Delta launched in 1967. Joining us to talk about the MRF are self-described “old River Rats” Cliff Fejfar and Ed Werle, as well as Jeff
Sixty years ago, a U–2 spy plane spotted Intermediate-Range and Medium Range Ballistic Missiles on Cuba, triggering an international crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. Tonight, we hear about the Cuban Missile Crisis from those who lived through while serving in the military. Sponsored by Tobacco Free Adagio Health! Simulcast
The little-known SS Mayaguez Incident of 1975 was the last act of the Vietnam War. Coming two weeks after the Fall of Saigon, the armed conflict between the US military and Cambodian Khmer Rouge naval forces resulted in the last US casualties of the war. The names of these 41 casualties appear at the
We welcome former B-17 pilot John “Lucky” Luckadoo to Greatest Generation Live to share stories from his 25 missions over France and Germany in 1943 with the 100th Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force, stationed in Thorpe Abbotts, England. Also joining us will be Bestselling author Kevin Maurer, who captured Luckadoo’s story in Damn Lucky:
