Alvin York's Second Fight: Mortgaged Gift Farm, Mountain School and IRS
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Alvin York was born in 1887 in Fentress County, Tennessee, one of 11 children in a two-room log ...
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Alexander Dubček: Prague Spring, 4,600 Tanks and Exile as a Forester
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Czechoslovakia entered the 1960s as an industrialized consumer economy forced into Soviet heavy ...
23 Okt 25min
Able Archer 83: Operation RYAN and the Warheads Loaded on Soviet Jets
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 1981 Leonid Brezhnev and KGB chairman Yuri Andropov told senior KGB officers that the Uni...
23 Okt 28min
Terence Hill & Bud Spencer: Trinity, Slaps and the Reinvention of the Western
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!An Olympic swimmer and an Italian screen veteran became one of cinema’s most unlikely comedy par...
22 Okt 32min
F-15 Eagle: A 104-0 Record, a Satellite Kill and the MiG-25 Panic
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle holds a 104 to 0 air-to-air combat record, and the episode trac...
21 Okt 21min
CH-47 Chinook: Guns-A-Go-Go, Bravo November and Water Drops on Fukushima
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Boeing CH-47 Chinook came out of a late-1950s split in Army aviation between those who wante...
21 Okt 24min
C-17 Globemaster III: The Moose, 823 Kabul Evacuees and a Tampa Mix-Up
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Crews call the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III the Moose because its pressure relief vents groan dur...
21 Okt 23min
C-130 Hercules: A Hookless Carrier Landing, Entebbe and the Fulton Yoke
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In late October 1963, Lieutenant James H. Flatley III landed a four-engine Lockheed C-130 Hercul...
21 Okt 28min
