America's preeminent naval historian (and Navy veteran), Craig Symonds joins VBC Happy Hour for a special program with Glenn Flickinger on the fthe man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two: Admiral Chester Nimitz. Symond's biography of Nimitz, Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, is considered not
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, teenaged Jack went into hiding. Like Houdini slipping a straightjacket, Jack managed to escape capture at every turn, even
JOIN ON ZOOM 100-Year-Old John "Lucky" Luckadoo, plus Researching Veterans Service Records on Greatest Generation Live 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,
Glenn Flickinger welcomes Jeff Mossinghoff, whose grandfather was Conrad F. Castillo. Castillo was born in the Philippines, came to the United States as a teenager, and served in the Navy in World War II as a personal aide to Admiral William "Bull" Halsey. Jeff Ballard and Lars McKie, who is transcribing Castillo's journal, also joins the
On November 13, 1942, brother Joseph, Francis, Albert, Madison, and George Sullivan all died aboard the USS Juneau (CL-52) following the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Their deaths remain the greatest disaster to befall one family in wartime and changed the rules governing siblings serving together. George and Francis Sullivan were the first leave their Waterloo, Iowa,
