Ed Freeman and Bruce Crandall volunteer to plow into Landing Zone X-ray fourteen times, and under intense enemy fire, all to rescue stranded cavalry.

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Purple Heart Foundation - Vietnam War Hero - The Untold Story of Army Capt. Ed W. Freeman

Snopes - Captain Ed Freeman - Medal of Honor Winner - By David Mikkelson

Business Insider - Jim Morrison's Dad Had a Hand in Starting the Vietnam War - By Ward Carroll

Ed Freeman - Wikipedia

Jimmy Stewart. He failed more times than you can count. But nobody counts the failures.

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Elephant Journal - Why Top Gun Has One of the Best Scenes You'll Ever See - By Kevin Macku

DenofGeek - Jimmy Stewart and the WW2 Mission That Almost Broke Him - By David Crow

Top Gun - A Confidence Problem - YouTube

This week we talk about a phenomenon during WW2 that nobody could ever seem to explain. Did the entire 415th Night Fighter Group go crazy??? Was what they saw real? I'll let you be the judge.

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Off by roughly 2 TRILLION.... AGAIN!!! - The Way I Heard It - By Mike Rowe

History.com - Mysterious UFO's Seen By WWII Airman Still Unexplained - By Adam Janos

Airspacemag.com - What Were the Mysterious "Foo Fighters" Sighted By WWII Night Flyers? - By Zoe Krasney

Sofrep.com - Foo Fighters Over WW2 and the Birth of the American Love Affair with Aliens - By Alex Hollings

Unlike the sports icons we see today, Nile Kinnick was one of the most humble athletes and one of the most dedicated patriots this country has ever seen. I even track down a few relatives that have some stories of their own. They share their gratitude about how the blood that runs in their veins has ultimately changed their lives for the better.

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Nile Kinnick - Wikipedia

The New York Times - June 10th, 1943 - Nile Kinnick Killed - Iowa Hawkeyes

Iowa Magazine - Kinnick's Final Days - By Josh O'Leary

Iowa Digital Library - Nile Kinnick Correspondence - June-August 1942

• Also Included: Stories from Josh and Troy Gilbert - Relatives of Nile Kinnick

This is a big one. It took a lot of heavy research to tie all of this together. 4 months-worth, in fact. Little friends were battling over Mayen, Germany during one of the biggest European Theater Operations of the war. And the neat part is, my Uncle was right there in the thick of it.

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The Liberator Men of Old Buc - By Andrew Low

P-51 Mustang Combat Reports

P-47 Thunderbolt Combat Reports

Today we focus on a B-17 crew that sure did love their beer. Enough to paint their love for it on the nose of their bird.

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B17FlyingFortress.de - High Life

100thBombGroup.com - Joseph C. Harper

Molsoncoorsblog.com - Here's what we know about the Miller High Life Lady - By Dave Herrewig

NationalWW2Museum.org - How WW2 Saved American Beer Brewing

It happened whether we want to think about it or not. Today, I share a few stories where sabotage reared it's ugly head during WW2, along with one man that helped to solve a long-standing design flaw with the B-24 that would cause every man on board to instantly perish.

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The Daily Item - The B-24 Had History of Flight Explosions - By Joseph A. Diblin

Time Magazine - The Hidden Risk Faced by Female Pilots During WW2 - By Olivia B. Waxman

Gremlin - Wikipedia

This week we remember the men that helped to keep the crew whole so that they could get off the ground. Commonly referred to as "floaters", they would fill-in when a crew member was sick. Some didn't have to.... but they did anyway.

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Denver Post - Frank Lablotier - By Claire Martin

Sun-Telegraph - Historic B-17 roars over Front Range - By Dave Faries

Military.com - Sgt. Maynard H. Smith - By Bethanne Kelly Patrick

A Gunners Tale - 100th Bomb Group - By Karen Abeyasekere

Many on social media would have you believe that a B-17 can land without a tail. They would like you to think that a commonly circulated photo of an airborne Fortress with the tail missing succeeded in landing with zero casualties. This is far from the truth, and if we're not careful we will misremember their real story over time. Today, we remember the men that sacrificed their lives in this crippled bird.

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American Air Museum in Britain - 42-37781 - Silver Dollar

384th Bomb Group (Heavy) Website - B-17G - 42-37781

The Combat Box - Wikipedia

The Arrowhead Club 2015 - "Ozzie's Story" - By Cindy Farrar Bryan

Twelve brave souls aboard a PB4Y-2 Privateer perish in the sea outside Singapore on June 1st, 1945. Hear the story of their sacrifice along with one remaining Liberator that was forced crawl home over 1000 miles with zero air-support.

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Beauran O'Kane, History of a Privateer from VPB-106

The Story of One Eleven - By Robert L. Wolpert

Pacific Wrecks - PB4Y-2 Privateer - Bureau Number 59563

Modeling Madness - Story By Robert L. Wolpert

Pacific Wrecks - PB4Y-1 Liberator - Bureau Number 38917