The WW2 Grognard

*The WW2 Grognard* is a documentary podcast for people who already know the war — and know that most of what they've been told about it is incomplete.Each episode is narrated by Charles Mercer, a voice that doesn't perform history. It inhabits it. The research is deep, the judgments are earned, and the stories chosen are the ones that don't fit cleanly into the standard narrative: the commanders history celebrated without asking what they cost, the decisions that won battles and killed men for the wrong reasons, the figures on both sides who understood exactly what was happening and went forward anyway.This is not a podcast about dates and campaigns. It is a podcast about character under extreme pressure — about what war does to the people who fight it, command it, survive it, and can't survive it. About the gap between the monument and the man. About the price of the photograph.The host is not a journalist or an entertainer. He is someone who has read the primary sources, argued wi

The WW2 Grognard is a history podcast hosted by ROD INOJOSA, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

ROD INOJOSA hosts The WW2 Grognard, a history show with 16 episodes published.

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  Burke’s Doctrine: The Night Attacks That Won the Pacific War

  Jun 2, 202644 minS0

  <p>Arleigh Burke sank more Japanese destroyers than any officer in the Pacific War. The Navy named 74 ships after him. Almost no one knows what he did.</p><p><br></p><p>He arrived in the Solomon Islands in October 1943 with a doctrine no one had approved. Eight weeks later, he had fought three major night engagements — and won all of them without losing a single American ship.</p><p><br></p><p>The Battle of Cape St. George is still taught at the Naval War College as a model of destroyer warfare. Zero American casualties. Three Japanese destroyers sunk in...

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  Ōnishi: He Created the Kamikaze. Then Left a Note Asking the Survivors Not to Follow Him.

  Apr 26, 202634 minS0

  <p>He invented the kamikaze. He sent four thousand young men to die in it. And on the night the second world war ended, he sat alone in a room, refused help, and chose a death that lasted fifteen hours.</p><p><br></p><p>This is the story of Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi — the Japanese naval officer who created the Tokkō special attack corps in October 1944, in a small airfield north of Manila, with six days to spare before the American invasion. He believed in what he was building. Then, somewhere in the spring of 1945, he stopped believing. And could...

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  Halsey Got the Fifth Star. Spruance Won the War. The Admiral America Forgot.

  Apr 26, 202636 minS0

  <p>Admiral Raymond Spruance won the Battle of Midway, commanded the Fifth </p><p>Fleet, and refused to be a hero. While Halsey got the fifth star and the </p><p>headlines, Spruance got Pebble Beach, a garden, and a schnauzer named </p><p>Peter. This is the story of the U.S. Navy's most underrated commander </p><p>of World War II — the admiral who out-thought the Imperial Japanese Navy </p><p>at Midway and the Philippine Sea, then walked away from the spotlight he </p><p>never wanted.</p><p><br></p><p>In June 1942, with William Halsey ho...

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  The Unknown Hero Who Charged a Battleship With a Destroyer — and Saluted by the Enemy

  Apr 26, 202630 minS0

  <p>The unknown captain who charged a Japanese battleship fleet with a single American destroyer. Ernest E. Evans, USS Johnston, Battle off Samar, October 25, 1944 — and the enemy salute that ended his fight.</p><p><br></p><p>Off the island of Samar. A half-Cherokee captain from Pawnee, Oklahoma stands on the bridge of a single Fletcher-class destroyer and sees twenty-three Japanese warships — including four battleships — coming straight at him. He has three minutes to decide. He turns toward them.</p><p><br></p><p>This is the story of Ernest Edwin Evans, the first Native American naval officer to receive the Me...

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  Leyte: He Declared Victory While His Men Were Still Dying — The Ground War

  Apr 26, 202629 minS0

  <p>MacArthur declared victory on December 26th, 1944.</p><p>His men were still dying in those mountains five months later.</p><p><br></p><p>Three men. One island. A battle history buried under the naval legend.</p><p><br></p><p>The general who conquered Singapore in 70 days — exiled for being too popular,</p><p>then executed for crimes he didn't order.</p><p><br></p><p>The American commander who actually won Leyte — whose name you've never heard.</p><p><br></p><p>And the Japanese general left behind by his own army in those mountains,</p><p>stil...

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