Remembering Craig Symonds

Acclaimed Pacific War historian James Scott joins our hosts to discuss the harrowing story of America's bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the dramatic struggle to end World War II. Email the Someone Talked! team at [email protected]. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org.

We pay tribute to beloved scholar and historian Craig Symonds, who passed away on October 13, 2026, from complications due to cancer. This encore presentation of our November 2025 interview with Symonds at the America's History, LLC World War II conference includes a heartfelt introduction and close by John McManus.Email the Someone Talked! team at [email protected]. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org.

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.Email the Someone Talked! team at [email protected]. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org.

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. Email the Someone Talked! team at [email protected]. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org.

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. Email the Someone Talked! team at [email protected]. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org.

In this episode, our hosts reflect on America's semiquincentennial and the ever evolving fight for freedom since 1776.Email the Someone Talked! team at [email protected]. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org.

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.Email the Someone Talked! team at [email protected]. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org.

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. Email the Someone Talked! team at [email protected]. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org.

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. Email the Someone Talked! team at [email protected]. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org.

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.Email the Someone Talked! team at [email protected]. Explore the National D-Day Memorial, plan your visit, and learn about upcoming events at dday.org.