Épisodes

  • Burden of Command Part 1 with Luke Hughes

    Burden of Command Part 1 with Luke Hughes
    Oct 1 2025
    This episosde is even better with video! Check it out on our YouTube channel @NationalDDayMemorial
    https://www.dday.org/digital-library/burden-of-command-with-luke-hughes/

    Do you have what it takes to lead? You're a company Captain in the tactical leadership role-playing game Burden of Command, based on host John C. McManus' book American Courage, American Carnage. Game designer Luke Hughes joins the podcast.
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    57 min
  • From Return of the Dead to the DPAA Host Discussion

    From Return of the Dead to the DPAA Host Discussion
    Sep 17 2025
    During WWII, the U.S. government declared, “final disposition of our soldiers’ remains, in accordance with the wishes of their loved ones, is an inherent obligation of the Government as the final gesture of a grateful country to those who paid the supreme sacrifice.” In this episode, our hosts discuss the keeping of that promise, from the war-era “Return of the Dead Program” to the efforts that continue to bring home our fallen more than 80 years later
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    57 min
  • End of WWII in the Pacific and Asia Host Discussion

    End of WWII in the Pacific and Asia Host Discussion
    Sep 3 2025
    With 80 years now passed since Japan signed the formal surrender documents aboard the USS Missouri, our hosts explore the end of WWII in the Pacific and Asia
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    1 h et 2 min
  • No Average Day Part 2 with Rona Simmons

    No Average Day Part 2 with Rona Simmons
    Aug 20 2025
    We continue our discussion of the 24 deadliest hours for U.S. service members during World War II with Rona Simmons, author of No Average Day.
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    55 min
  • No Average Day Part 1 with Rona Simmons

    No Average Day Part 1 with Rona Simmons
    Aug 6 2025
    October 24, 1944, is not a day of national remembrance. Yet, more Americans serving in World War II perished on that day than on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on June 6, 1944, when the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy, or on any other single day of the war. In No Average Day, author Rona Simmons takes us hour by hour and incident by incident
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    53 min
  • Cassino '44 Part 2 with James Holland

    Cassino '44 Part 2 with James Holland
    Jul 23 2025
    "James Holland is now our foremost authority on the Italian campaign."

    Find out why our host, John C. McManus, says that as Holland returns to Someone Talked! with part 2 of our discussion of Cassino '44. Holland follows a rich cast of characters from both sides to create this compelling and often heart-breaking narrative, told in the moment, as the events played out, and from the perspective of those who lived, fought, and died there. t
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    38 min
  • Cassino '44 Part 1 with James Holland

    Cassino '44 Part 1 with James Holland
    Jul 9 2025
    There is no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943. And yet it didn't happen. Hitler ordered his forces to dig in and fight for every yard, thus setting the stage for one of the grimmest and most attritional campaigns of the Second World War. James Holland tells the definitive account of this brutal battle in Cassino '44.
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    46 min
  • The Pope at War Part 2 with David Kertzer

    The Pope at War Part 2 with David Kertzer
    Jun 25 2025
    Hailed as the most important book ever written about the conduct of the Catholic Church in WWII, we have more of The Pope at War with author David Kertzer.
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    56 min