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 Daryn Glassbrook of the Mobile Medical Museum tells the story of the iron lung a device used to keep people with advanced polio alive in the first half of the th century Heather McPherson Curator of History at the South Carolina Military Museum shares the story of why she chose her career to honor her great uncle Roger McGrath tells another Hollywood Goes to War story of American screenwriter Merian C Cooper Cooper worked on various cinematic classics including King Kong He also served our country in WWI as a U S Air [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories Jeanne Bishop tells us the story of the brutal murders of her beloved family members and how a change of heart changed her life and so many others John O'Neil Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force tells the story of his father the tail and waist gunner on the B- Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate nbsp Time Codes - Making Peace with My Sister rsquo s Killer - John O rsquo Neil On The First B- To Bomb BerlinSee omnystudio [... more]

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