
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 hi... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 17 | Founded | 3 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Society & CultureHistoryDocumentary | |||

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 one had approved. Eight weeks l... more
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 Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi... more
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. This is the story of th... more
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 of Samar. A half-Cherokee cap... more
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 in 70 days — exiled for be... more
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 directions. MacArthur's invasion f... more
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 channel. Not a war story. A story ... more
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
the real story is far mor... more
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