Someone Talked!

Self-proclaimed "groupie for the 1st Division" Gregory Fontenot returns to further discuss his divisional history of The Big Red One. In "We Salute You," as a child Charles Chibitty was sent to a school to erase his native tongue. Ironically, the U.S. government would later rely on Chibitty's indigenous language on D-Day. Email the Someone Talked! team at podcast@dday.org. Explore the National D-D...

Col. Gregory Fontenot joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, No Sacrifice Too Great: The 1st Infantry Division in World War II. As a soldier in a graves registration company, Robert Berry cared for D-Day's fallen and later helped the National D-Day Memorial develop the world's most complete account of those lost that day. His legacy of service in "We Salute You." Email the Someone Talked! t...

2023 National Infantry Association Order of St. Maurice recipient Joe Balkoski rejoins the podcast. As research moves from veteran accounts to archeology, we discuss the future of D-Day scholarship. Blinded while in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, Thomas Gagnet would later testify in the war crimes trials in Japan, with the hope that just punishment would help prevent another war. We honor his se...

Named "top living D-Day historian" by USA Today , author Joe Balkoski takes us back to Utah Beach. In "We Salute You," we honor Peter Monsma, a Dutch native who would return to the Netherlands while serving his adopted home as a U.S. Army chaplain. 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 .

Our hosts jump right into the airborne experience in Normandy in this discussion of paratroopers and gliders. In "We Salute You," we honor, Herman Addleson, a paratrooper who was so eager to serve but lost his life in the early hours of D-Day. 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 .

Peggy Noonan wasn't alive when Rangers scaled the cliffs but was tasked with writing President Reagan's speech to be delivered at Pointe du Hoc. In the audience - the veterans who saved the world. No pressure! As an army photographer, Kegham Nigohosian was supposed to capture the history Noonan would write about at Pointe du Hoc. We honor his service in out "We Salute You" segment. Email the Someo...

Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. Paratrooper-turned-historian James M. Fenelon re-joins our hosts to discuss the 11 th Airborne Division’s Pacific campaigns, narrated in his latest book Angels Against the Sun. English at birth and American by wartime, Charles Rippon returned to England to train but never made it home to Pennsylvania after D-Day. The story of...

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...