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This episode is Scene Five in Marauder Men. The Silver King, now flying missions from A-72, north of Paris, receives orders to pack for a special mission to Maryland.  Glenn L. Martin, the B-26 manufacturer, has asked the Air Corps brass to send Stanley to Middle River to assist in design modifications for the bomber's blister nose, The Greenhouse.

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This episode is Scene Four of Marauder Men. Our hero, The Silver King, and his buddy, JJ Sherry, are training to fly the B-26, Martin Marauder. This is the plane that Stanley wanted to fly.  Glenn L. Martin makes a special VIP visit with General Hap Arnold, the Air Corps Commander. They tour Barksdale Field and meet The King and his crew.

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This episode is Scene Three in Marauder Men, the second play in The Silver King's War podcast series. Glenn Martin's men have been acquiring tide-water properties just east of Baltimore for development as an industrial  manufacturing site.  It's late at night as Bunk Tilghman considers an offer for his land, which he believes will be a future hunt & fishing sportsmen's club.

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This episode is Scene Two of Marauder Men, the second play in The Silver King's War series. Glenn L. Martin is meeting with the city council, accompanied by his mother, Minta.  City Hall is an imposing structure and Martin explains his search for land to build a new manufacturing complex with deference and patience.

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This episode is Scene One in Marauder Men, the second play in The Silver King's War series. It's 1909 and Glenn L. Martin is building his first plane in a vacant church in downtown Santa Ana near the family's automobile showroom.  The lease is $12/month.

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This is the introduction to Marauder Men, the second play in The Silver King's War podcast series.  This series follows a young aviator, Stanley Silverfield, through his Second World War as a B-26 bombardier.

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This is episode 11, The Silver King epilogue.  Michael G. Sievers, the writer, producer and creator of The Silver King's War discusses a decade of work on his father's Second World War.

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This episode is Scene Eight of The Silver King.  It's Stanley's first combat mission: November 5, 1944.  He will fly with his Barksdale crew:  Jack H. Festi (pilot/0711541); James N. Fomby, Jr., (co-pilot/0720239);  Alfred R. Hawpe (engineer-gunner/38528150); Clarence A. Luck (radio operator-gunner/35678897); and Jack D. Loftin (armorer-gunner/38554678).  Stanley is the bombardier-navigator/0765449. A night mission, the target is an ordnance depot in Homburg., Germany. Flying time to the target: 95 minutes.

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This episode is Scene Seven of The Silver King.  After Stanley's Atlantic crossing on the Queen Mary, he travels from England to France and his bomb group.  It's an arduous journey to reach A-72, north of Paris.  His squadron, the 597th, has recently settled into a former German air field.

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This episode is Scene Six of The Silver King.  Stanley and JJ Sherry, as commissioned officers, ride the Queen Mary, which is now a troop transport ship, across the Atlantic Ocean in late September on their way to the European Theater of Operations.  Their specific destination, unknown to them, is an air base in allied territory, perhaps in England or France.

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