In this episode, our hosts reflect on America's semiquincentennial and the ever evolving fight for freedom since 1776.

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Someone Talked! host John C. McManus moonlights as a "chump" with fellow historian Kevin Hymel on World War II LIVE. They join us in our studio for this special crossover episode with a guest appearance by WWII LIVE producer Mark Fastoso, who makes "honorary chumps" of our co-hosts.

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The soldiers of D Company could not believe their eyes as they came face-to-face with the human cost of Hitler’s evil: two teenage boys—survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald —who had escaped.

Nina Willner returns to share more of her father's remarkable story of survival as told in The Boys in the Light. 

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The Boys in the Light follows the parallel journeys of Company D and Eddie Willner, the author’s father, as they are caught up on two sides of World War II.

Author Nina Willner joins us to discuss her highly acclaimed 2025 book. 

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Author Bruce Henderson returns with more on the American bomber crews and Allied secret agents who would later be known as the "Carpetbaggers" and their daring operation to aid the French Resistance in WWII.

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In his latest book, Bruce Henderson tells the untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II.

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One of the world's preeminent naval historians, Jon Parshall, returns to explore the Pacific War with our hosts.

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As the world commemorates the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, an update on the Memorial's decades-long effort to know, by name, each of the Allied fallen of 6 June 1944. 

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In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, PRESSURE follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Group Captain James Stagg as they face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether. Starring Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina, and Damian Lewis. Director Anthony Maras joins Someone Talked! ahead of the film's North American release.

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Created exclusively for the National D-Day Memorial by the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech – When We Went In: The D-Day Experience in Light and Sound transforms the Memorial into a stunning, multi-media sensory experience.

Go behind the scenes with the creative team responsible for the immersive masterpiece that retells the story of the Normandy invasion through authentic, first-hand accounts of the men and women who lived through June 6, 1944.

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