Richard Fazzio, D-Day, Omaha Beach, 1st Wave, Podcast.

Richard Fazzio was a U.S. Navy Coxswain on June 6, 1944, piloting a Higgins Boat onto Omaha Beach in the 1st wave. He was carrying more than 30 soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division towards one of the most heavily defended sections of Omaha Beach. When the ramp went down on his landing craft all hell broke loose. It's a sight Richard has never been able to completely remove from his mind, nor will he.

Henry De Hoop's grandpa joined the Paratroopers in WWII when he was just 14 Years Old. That is just the beginning of his incredible military adventure, however!

Sheila Stone joins us to talk about the incredible book she and her family put together chronicling her late husband's correspondence from the Pacific in World War II.

1st to Fight: Pacific War Marines is narrated by actor Jon Seda and follows several veterans of the First Marine Division through battles on Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu.

We follow a group of explorers as they search the Pacific for clues to a gold tooth found at the crash site of famed Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Is it his tooth? How did he actually die? Voiced by Gary Sinise.

Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds (August 20, 1919 – August 8, 1985) was a master sergeant of the 106th Infantry Division, 422nd Infantry Regiment in the United States Army during World War II, who was captured and became the ranking U.S. non-commissioned officer at the Stalag IX-A prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Germany, where – at the risk of his life – he saved an estimated 200 Jews from being singled out from the camp for Nazi persecution and possible death.

We chat a little about World War II Movies.

Chad Paetznick's grandfather was a chaplain in the first Marine air wing in the south Pacific during World War II. One of his best friends was Medal of Honor recipient Greg "Pappy" Boyington one of WWII's greatest and certainly most colorful, flying aces.