Warbirds - Tales From Above
Come along for the ride as we review some of the most fascinating stories centered around the unforgiving skies of the greatest generation. Each episode gives you a peek at specific events, people, and/or aircraft during World War 2, and other major conflicts.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 54
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
The Return
Join me not only for the return of the show, but for my Grandfathers return to the Reno Air Races after over 41 years. During this episode, we not only experience some great racing, but we were grac…
Walking the Hump
Thousands of pilots flew The Hump during the war. Robert Lineberger walked it.
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Triple Six
Jay Zeamer and crew fly Old 666 on a recon mission in the Pacific, and end up being the most highly-decorated air crew of WW2.
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Tiger Down
WW2 Veteran John Murray has 4 engines for his flight tonight. 3 of them catch fire and there's no land in sight.
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Underage
Today we honor the boys that instantly became men when they chose to falsify their birth certificates in order to fight in our stead. In this research I also stumble upon a B-24 event that will hope…
She'll Be Ready
They kept them in the air....
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Widow's Peak
A P-61 crashed on the side of Mount Cyclops in 1945. 2nd Lt. Southfield gives us a good story about how that happened. 76 years later, the corroded Black Widow is sitting in Pennsylvania. It isn't…
Lost at Sea
Those tiny white-caps are bigger than your yellow dot on the water.
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The Dieppe Raid
This one is not often talked about, especially in the United States. It was never as popular as the Normandy invasion has become, but it proved to be just as important to the success of D-Day. Grou…
Here Comes Ed
Ed Freeman and Bruce Crandall volunteer to plow into Landing Zone X-ray fourteen times, and under intense enemy fire, all to rescue stranded cavalry.
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The 20 Somethings
Jimmy Stewart. He failed more times than you can count. But nobody counts the failures.
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Foo Fighters
This week we talk about a phenomenon during WW2 that nobody could ever seem to explain. Did the entire 415th Night Fighter Group go crazy??? Was what they saw real? I'll let you be the judge.
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Hawkeyes and Wildcats
Unlike the sports icons we see today, Nile Kinnick was one of the most humble athletes and one of the most dedicated patriots this country has ever seen. I even track down a few relatives that have …
Christmas with Little Friends
This is a big one. It took a lot of heavy research to tie all of this together. 4 months-worth, in fact. Little friends were battling over Mayen, Germany during one of the biggest European Theater…
Millertary Time
Today we focus on a B-17 crew that sure did love their beer. Enough to paint their love for it on the nose of their bird.
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Boom Boom Sabotage
It happened whether we want to think about it or not. Today, I share a few stories where sabotage reared it's ugly head during WW2, along with one man that helped to solve a long-standing design fla…
The Replacements
This week we remember the men that helped to keep the crew whole so that they could get off the ground. Commonly referred to as "floaters", they would fill-in when a crew member was sick. Some didn…
Silver Dollar
Many on social media would have you believe that a B-17 can land without a tail. They would like you to think that a commonly circulated photo of an airborne Fortress with the tail missing succeeded…
Fire on Number Three
Twelve brave souls aboard a PB4Y-2 Privateer perish in the sea outside Singapore on June 1st, 1945. Hear the story of their sacrifice along with one remaining Liberator that was forced crawl home ov…