On this episode of Our American Stories from the time he was a boy Merian C Cooper wanted to be an adventurer a wish that propelled him into journalism the National Guard military aviation two world wars Amid these he became a movie producer and writer working on some cinematic classics including King Kong in He even played one of the pilots in the film Here again to tell this Hollywood Goes to War story is Roger McGrath Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories Merian C Cooper wanted to be an adventurer It was a wish that propelled him into journalism the National Guard military aviation two world wars and a movie producer and writer working on some cinematic classics including King Kong in He even played one of the pilots in the film Here again to tell this Hollywood Goes to War story is Roger McGrath Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories the Navy commissioned its newest destroyer and named it after a man who deliberately crash-landed a perfectly good aircraft behind enemy lines But the man who became the first American serviceman in the Korean War to receive the Medal of Honor and the man who lent his name to the USS Thomas Hudner had a darn good reason perhaps the best of reasons Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories America was down but not out after Pearl Harbor we needed a major victory though That victory would come at a small sandy island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean Writer Anne Clare tells the story Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories it's time for another one of Roger McGrath's Hollywood Goes To War stories So far we've heard the stories of Clark Gable Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power Today McGrath will be treating us to the story of Hollywood's strapping steely-eyed leading man Wayne Morris Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories it was never supposed to be them but through an extraordinary chain of events Lt Bill Owen's crew managed to become the first B- crew to drop bombs in the heart of the Third Reich Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]