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Someone Talked! episodes

October 21 Patton's War Volume 3 Part 2 with Kevin Hymel
Kevin Hymel introduces Patton not as a larger-than-life myth, but as a human being as we wrap up our discussion of the author's three-volume work.

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55 min
October 07 Patton's War Volume 3 Part 1 with Kevin Hymel
Podcast regular Kevin Hymel discusses the third and final volume of his trilogy, which relies on Patton's original diaries and personal letters to tell the general's story.

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56 min
September 23 A Conversation with Medal of Honor Recipient Drew Dix
Drew Dix, the first enlisted man in Special Forces to have been awarded the Medal of Honor, joins our hosts for a thoughtful discussion of what it means to wear our Nation's highest military decoration.

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56 min
September 09 America at 250: Independence to Overlord and Beyond
In this episode, our hosts reflect on America's semiquincentennial and the ever evolving fight for freedom since 1776.

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58 min
August 28 Crossover Episode: World War II LIVE & Someone Talked!
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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1 hr 3 min
August 19 The Boys in the Light Part 2 with Nina Willner
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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56 min
August 05 The Boys in the Light Part 1 with Nina Willner
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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53 min
July 22 Midnight Flyboys Part 2 with Bruce Henderson
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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53 min
July 08 Midnight Flyboys Part 1 with Bruce Henderson
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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54 min
June 17 The Pacific with Jon Parshall
One of the world's preeminent naval historians, Jon Parshall, returns to explore the Pacific War with our hosts.

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54 min

About Someone Talked!

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Someone Talked! is the official podcast of the National D-Day Memorial. Join host by Dr. John C. McManus as we explore all the secrets of the Second World War.