USAF pilot Robert Sawhill was held prisoner at the Hanoi Hilton for five-and-a-half years. He returned home whole and healthy, despite the torture he endured. How did he do it? Joining us to discuss this question are members of the Sawhill family, along with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Bob Podurgiel and Carol Dlugos of the

Ground has broken for the new National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, TX. On Greatest Generation Live, we talk with Museum Content Officer Robert Shenk, and also with the family and biographer of WWII pilot John “Red” Morgan, Medal of Honor recipient whose story was dramatized in the movie Twelve O’Clock High. Sponsored

We supply the platform, you supply the topics. What’s salt water soap? How is the Marine Corps changing? What’s the war in Ukraine all about? Was the M-16 really that bad? What sank the USS Thresher? The conversation is free flowing and always interesting. Sponsored by Tobacco Free Adagio Health! Simulcast to Facebook and YouTube.

Gunter Nitsch grew up in that peculiar part of Europe now called Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania. When Gunter was born in 1937, it was known as Königsberg, East Prussia, and Gunter’s father was a member of the Nazi Party. The end of the war meant Gunter and his family

Pete Mecca welcomes Tina Woods, whose mother was a WWII Red Cross volunteer and widow of a fighter ace lost in the Battle of Attu. Tina's book about her family's experiences, My War, is based on a remarkable collection of letters her mother wrote, giving a ground-eye of the war in England. Sponsored by Tobacco

Sandra Ortega made history on July 4, 1958, when she became the nation’s first African American woman directly commissioned as a U.S. Air Force officer. She earned a doctorate in sociology and served in a variety of positions that took her all over the world. As a civilian, Sandra served in the Federal Women’s