Episodes

  • New Book Details America’s Deadliest Day in WWII
    Oct 28 2024

    Bradley W. Hart, PhD, Military Historian, talks with Rona Simmons, author of No Average Day: The 24 Hours of October 24, 1944, which chronicles the US Armed Forces’ single deadliest day of World War II. More than 2,600 Americans perished around the world on October 24, 1944—more than on any other single day of the conflict—yet the day remains overshadowed by more widely remembered dates in WWII history.

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    40 mins
  • New Film Explores Life of Lee Miller
    Sep 30 2024

    Dr. Jennifer Putnam interviews Antony Penrose, son of Lee Miller and author of “The Lives of Lee Miller.” The new film “Lee” stars Academy-Award winning actress Kate Winselt, portraying the trail-blazing World War II war correspondent.

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    59 mins
  • Antisemitism: The Fight in WWII America
    Sep 19 2024

    Coming soon from The National WWII Museum, Antisemitism: The Fight in WWII America is a five-part podcast series exploring the battle against antisemitism in prewar America and during World War II as well as the legacy of these efforts, which continue today.

    We begin in 1938, examining voices who were sympathetic to Nazism, while also highlighting voices who raised public awareness of the ongoing mass murder of Europe’s Jewish populations. The first two episodes examine American groups sympathetic to the Nazi; the next two focus on organizations that countered antisemitism during the war. The fifth and final episode looks at the legacy of liberation today.

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    1 min
  • Voices of D-Day
    Jun 6 2024

    This is D-Day, as told through the real voices of those who were in Normandy on June 6, 1944. The National WWII Museum’s archival collection features over 12,000 personal narratives, including voices of those who fought on D-Day.

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    47 mins
  • D-Day: 80 Years Later
    Jun 5 2024

    In this special episode of World War II On Topic, Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy Senior Historian Mark Calhoun, PhD, and Distinguished Fellow Rob Citino, PhD, discuss the legacy of D-Day, 80 years after the consequential invasion of Normandy began.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • New Podcast: Making Masters of the Air
    Jan 25 2024

    Click HERE to follow the new podcast by The National WWII Museum: Making Masters of the Air.

    Masters of the Air is an Apple Original series from executive producers of Band of Brothers and The Pacific, streaming January 26 on Apple TV+.

    The series follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air.

    Masters of the Air is based on the best-selling book by Donald Miller, and features a stellar cast led by Academy Award nominee Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Nate Mann, Rafferty Law, Academy Award nominee Barry Keoghan, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook and Ncuti Gatwa.

    The Making Masters of the Air podcast by The National WWII Museum is co-hosted by Playtone’s Kirk Saduski and Donald Miller, author of the book, Masters of the Air.

    Listen to the premiere episode featuring an interview with Executive Producer Tom Hanks on Friday, January 26.

    Masters of the Air is an Apple Original series from executive producers of Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Streaming on January 26 on Apple TV+ 

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  • Atom Bomb: “The Destroyer of Worlds”
    Aug 14 2023

    In this special season of World War II On Topic, The National WWII Museum will explore J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the history and ramifications of the atomic bomb. 

    In this episode, Jason Dawsey, PhD, and John Curatola, PhD, historians with the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, discuss the legacy of the Manhattan Project.

    To read more visit our Manhattan Project topics page: www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/manhattan-project

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    41 mins
  • Eyewitness to Hiroshima, and the Enola Gay
    Aug 7 2023

    In this special season of World War II On Topic, The National WWII Museum will explore J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the history and ramifications of the atomic bomb. 

    The anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima was August 6. In this episode, we hear from two extraordinary people who experienced the bombing, albeit from vastly different perspectives. While much has been written and said on the subject, these are firsthand recollections, excerpted from the oral histories given by Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk and Ittsei Nakagawa.

    Van Kirk was the navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. He was the last surviving member of the Enola Gay crew before his death in 2014.

    Nakagawa was a Japanese American from California who got stuck in Japan due to the war. He was there, in Hiroshima, on that fateful day and survived to tell his experience.

    These oral histories were recorded by the Museum and provide a first-person look into the lives of those who experienced these amazing and terrifying events.

    To read more visit our Manhattan Project topics page: www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/manhattan-project

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    37 mins