Someone Talked!

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. Four Hours of Fury author James M. Fenelon goes from Europe to the Pacific as he chronicles another lesser-known airborne unit in his latest book, Angels Against the Sun. In “We Salute You,” we honor the service of paratrooper Don Jakeway and tell you the story of his wristwatch, which became a silent witness to history not on...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. In this episode, historian Katherine Sharp Landdeck shares more profiles of World War II heroines of aviation, from among the 1,100 women who earned their silver wings as Women Airforce Service Pilots. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org. This program was supported...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. Katherine Sharp Landdeck is an associate professor of history at Texas Woman's University, home of the WASP archives. She joins the podcast to discuss her book The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Woman Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and le...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. While profanity famously rolled off the general's tongue, his hand-written words tell us even more. Author Kevin Hymel is back with more of Patton uncensored. In “We Salute You,” after providing critical information, Lt. James L. Christopulos thought he was getting a citation from none other than Old Blood and Guts himself. Fi...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. Wanna read Patton's diary? Author Kevin Hymel did. Hymel returns to Someone Talked! to discuss volume 2 of Patton's War: An American General's Combat Leadership. Hear the story of one of five known African Americans to die on D-Day, Abner Adams of the 4042 nd Quartermaster Truck Company, in our “We Salute You” segment. Explore...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. Some names go down in history while others live in infamy. Find out which World War II generals get five stars from our hosts. From musical talent to morse code, June Elliott Haggerty marches to the beat of her own drum in our “We Salute You” segment. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcomi...

Email the Someone Talked! team at podcast@dday.org. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org .

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. Countries and contributions, large and small, were crucial in the complex operation that was Overlord. In this episode, our hosts discuss the multinational effort on D-Day and how each ally is recognized at the National D-Day Memorial. In “We Salute You,” we remember Major William H. Merriam, a U.S. Army Air Force fighter pilo...

Hosts John C. McManus and co-hosts April Cheek-Messier and John Long lead a discussion about the National D-Day Memorial’s past, present, and future in front of a live audience at the Memorial.- Email the Someone Talked! team at podcast@dday.org. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org .

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. We go back To the End of the Earth with John C. McManus, as explore the last of his trilogy on the U.S. Army in the Pacific in World War II. John Onken, a naturalized American citizen born to German immigrants, dies fighting for his adopted homeland in our “We Salute You” segment. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. In this episode our host is in the hotseat as John C. McManus answers your burning questions about his research and just-released book, To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945. In our “We Salute You” segment, hear the story of Colonel James Kerr, one of only two known Marines to land on the beaches...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. Craig Symonds, Professor of History Emeritus at the United States Naval Academy, returns to continue our discussion of Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. Learn about the lesser-known mission, “Saving Lt. Plateck” as told by Corporal Herschel Brohinsky in our “We Salute You” segment. Explore the N...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. America's preeminent naval historian Craig Symonds joins our hosts to discuss his latest work, the first full-length portrait of Chester Nimitz in more than 50 years. In our “We Salute You” segment, hear the first-hand account of James Buchanan, a junior officer on Nimitz' staff. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. Author Ian Toll returns to talk kamikaze culture and explores the polarized U.S. political environment as we wrap up our discussion of his book, Twilight of the Gods. In “We Salute You,” meet 1 st Lieutenant Marcella LeBeau, an army nurse and champion of veteran and Native American health care. Explore the National D-Day Memor...

Someone Talked!  is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. “To Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and General Walter C. Short, who were dealt a losing hand.” With a dedication like that you’ll want to hear more from author Ian Toll as we discuss the third book in his Pacific War trilogy,  Twilight of the Gods. In “We Salute You,” go inside the “Little Red School House” with Louis Graziano, th...

Someone Talked!  is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. Author Jennet Conant rejoins our hosts to discuss writing about her own grandfather, eminent chemist James B. Conant, and his work on the Manhattan Project. Ernest Fulcher, an underweight boy from the mountains of West Virginia comes of age guiding Higgins Boats to Omaha Beach, in our “We Salute You” segment. Explore the Nati...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. New York Times Bestselling Author Jennet Conant shares The Great Secret. Discover the chemical weapons catastrophe, cover-up, and how it all led to the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy. Thought dead, Lt. Commander John Henry Morrill actually lived to tell quite the story of escape in the Pacific. Hear i...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. In this episode Dr. Sean McMeekin returns to continue our discussion of Stalin’s War, revising the Hitler-centric view of the war. In “We Salute You,” Hollywood actor Burgess Meredith’s role training fellow American servicemen during World War II. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming e...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. In this episode Sean McMeekin, Francis Flournoy Professor of European History and Culture at Bard College, joins us to discuss his latest book Stalin’s War: A New History of WWII. In Stalin’s War, McMeekin explores the idea that Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II. Learn how legendary medic Charles Norman...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. In this episode, Black Snow author James Scott returns to discuss the development of the B-29 bomber and shares how he was personally affected by his research. In “We Salute You,” André Fallwell landed in France to help liberate his mother’s homeland and with the hope he’d return to an America that was truly free for all. Expl...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. In this episode, Pulitzer Prize finalist James Scott reflects on his time researching in Japan and the painful interviews with civilians recalling the firebombing of Tokyo. In “We Salute You,” intelligence officer Oscar Cavallin’s story from inside a German POW camp. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and le...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. In this episode, we explore the Memorial’s never-ending quest to identify and remember, by name, every single Allied fatality on D-Day. The nephew of a fallen aviator shares how this research it helping families find answers nearly 80 years later. In “We Salute You,” once known but to God, Frances Drake was finally returned fr...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. In this episode, the producers of They Won’t Die Twice, a new documentary following the lives of three fallen heroes of D-Day, join us in studio on the heels of the American premiere. In “We Salute You,” how remembering Paul Womack’s death on Omaha Beach united two families over his grave and across continents. Explore the Nat...

Someone Talked!  is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial.   Chris Kolakowski returns to discuss all things MacArthur. Kolakowski, who served as director of the MacArthur Memorial from 2013-2019, authored  Last Stand on Bataan , which studies the Philippine Campaign.   In our “We Salute You” segment we introduce you to Lt. Col. John Minary, whose service in the Psychological Warfare...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. Chris Kolakowski, director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, joins the program to discuss his latest book Nations in the Balance: The India-Burma Campaigns, December 1943-August 1944. Our hosts and guest explore how the outcome of WWII in Asia still affects modern geopolitics. Catch baseball legend Yogi Berra’s story of herois...