Hosted by ROD INOJOSA · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 13 episodes
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*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
ROD INOJOSA hosts The WW2 Grognard, a history show with 13 episodes published.
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. He arrived in the Solomon Islands in October 1943 with a doctrine no on
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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. This is the story of
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Admiral Raymond Spruance won the Battle of Midway, commanded the Fifth Fleet, and refused to be a hero. While Halsey got the fifth star and the headlines, Spruance got Pebble Beach, a garden, and a schnauzer named Peter.
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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. Off the island
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MacArthur declared victory on December 26th, 1944. His men were still dying in those mountains five months later. Three men. One island. A battle history buried under the naval legend. The general who conquered Singapore
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Leyte Gulf - The largest naval battle in history was decided not by firepower — but by a single decision no one can fully explain. October 1944. Four Japanese fleets are converging on the Philippines from different direc
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Pearl Harbor pilot Mitsuo Fuchida launched the attack that started WWII in the Pacific. He survived Midway, Hiroshima — and found forgiveness in America. This is the most extraordinary life I've researched for this chann
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The Battle of Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II in the Pacific, is remembered through Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of six men raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi — but t
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) was the most successful surprise naval strike in history. In less than two hours, Japan crippled the U.S. Pacific Fleet — 21 ships damaged or destroyed, 2,403 Americans kille
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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz commanded the largest naval force in history during World War II. From Pearl Harbor (1941) to the Japanese surrender (1945), he led the U.S. Pacific Fleet across the most complex naval cam
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Japan sent the most powerful carrier fleet ever assembled in the Pacific to Midway in June 1942. By sunset, four of its carriers were burning. This is the full story of the Battle of Midway — told from inside the Japanes
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He spent years living among Americans — studying at Harvard University from 1919 to 1921, playing poker with oil executives in New York, driving through the American South, reading Hemingway. Isoroku Yamamoto didn't just
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He was Hitler's designated successor — the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany. He built the Gestapo, commanded the Luftwaffe, and signed the authorization that set the Holocaust in motion. He looted an entire conti
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In 1945, the U.S. Army sent a young psychiatrist into a prison in Nuremberg with one mission: determine whether 22 of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany were sane enough to stand trial. What Dr. Douglas Kelley found —
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