World War 2 LIVE
Hosted by Kevin Hymel and John C McManus and Dr John C McManus and John and Kevin and Mark and Mark Fastoso · Mark Fastoso
4.6from 80 ratings
- 49
- Episodes
- 27
- Transcribed
- 80
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About World War 2 LIVE
Welcome to World War II Live! Join historians John C. McManus and Kevin Hymel each week for an entertaining, informal, and cutting-edge dive into the history of the Second World War. These aren’t just any hosts—John is a professor of U.S. military history, author of fifteen award-winning books, and one of the nation’s top experts. Kevin has written five acclaimed books (including a trilogy on Patton), consults on films and documentaries, and brings the battlefields to life with his tours. On World War II Live, we’re here to answer your questions—big or small—while also sharing behind-the-scenes stories from their research, their tours, and their time working with documentaries. Expect a mix of serious insights, surprising details, and a touch of humor as they explore every corner of the war and what it means to us today. Subscribe, send in your questions, and join the conversation—because this is your chance to talk history with the experts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Mark Fastoso
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Sept 2025
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
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27 of 49 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
FROM NORTH AFRICA TO CORREGIDOR: The Evolution of American Airborne Warfare
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FROM NORTH AFRICA TO CORREGIDOR: The Evolution of American Airborne Warfare
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it's under a guy named Lieutenant Colonel Edson Raft. This is 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment. And so the idea – so you've got forces going into Morocco from across the Atlantic. You've got other forces going from England through the Straits of Gibraltar to land in two locations in Algiers. And Eisenhower decides, you know, we need some airborne support. And so what they're going to do is they're going to take this 2nd Battalion, load them into 39 C-47s, and have them fly south to North Africa. This is going to be the longest – airborne flight of the war. I think it's 1,100 miles. […]
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Kevin Hymel and John C McManus and Dr John C McManus and John and Kevin and Mark and Mark Fastoso host the show. Published by Mark Fastoso.
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