(hello and welcome to episode 436 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast my name is Seth peran historian and deputy…
120 Australian soldiers walked into a command briefing at Long Bin in May of 1966. A United States Army colonel stood at…
The Americans didn’t hear them, didn’t see them, didn’t sense them. Four MV SOG operators crouched in the undergrowth along a trail…
The jungle canopy filters morning light into fragments. 11 men stand motionless on a trail barely wider than a man’s shoulders. They’ve…
[Music] [Music] hello and welcome to episode 442 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast my name is Seth peran…
When John Wayne walked out of that studio, he did something he had never done in his entire career. He went silent.…
Sarah Martinez wiped the espresso machine for the third time that morning. Even though it was already clean, the steady, boring movement…
Clint Eastwood’s Last Meeting with John Wayne Before He Died—What Happened Left Hollywood in TEARS D
The phone rang at 4:47 in the morning on May 29th, 1979. Clint Eastwood reached for the phone in the dark bedroom…
At 3:00 in the morning, a nurse leaned over John Wayne’s hospital bed and whispered his name. Not the name on the…
The telegram arrived on the worst possible day of Russell Witmore’s life, though he would not know until later that it also…