Someone Talked‪!‬ Grove Street FM

Broadcasting live from Bedford, Virginia, and Normandy, France, the National D-Day Memorial presents "Someone Talked!" featuring special guest Paul Woodadge.

Recorded LIVE on May 17th, 2024. 

The Paratrooper Generals author Mitch Yockelson returns with more on Matthew Ridgway and Maxwell Taylor. The 2020 book is the first book to explore in depth the significant role these two division commanders played on D-Day, describing the extraordinary courage and leadership they demonstrated throughout the most important American campaign of World War II.

Yockelson is the author of 6 books and as the Investigative Archivist Manager leading the Archival Recovery Program for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), he investigates theft and fraud cases of America's protected government records and historical artifacts.

Author Mitch Yockelson joins us with insights from his latest work, The Paratrooper Generals: Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and the American Airborne from D-Day through Normandy.

Generals during World War II usually stayed to the rear, but not Matthew Ridgway and Maxwell Taylor. During D-Day and the Normandy campaign, these commanders of the 82nd “All-American” and the 101st “Screaming Eagle” Airborne Divisions refused to remain behind the lines and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their paratroopers in the thick of combat.

Yockelson is the Investigative Archivist Manager for the National Archives and Records Administration, a historian, and professor.

We pick up our conversation on Italy in WWII with renowned historian James Holland, author of The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943.

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland returns to Someone Talked! to discuss his latest book The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943, in which he narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign.

Mari K. Eder, retired U.S. Army Major General, returns with more stories of extraordinary women who stepped out of line and into history during WWII, forever altering the world's landscape.

A renowned speaker and author, and a thought leader on strategic communication and leadership, General Eder is the former Commanding General of the U.S. Army Reserve Joint and Special Troops Support Command, former Deputy Chief of the Army Reserve, and former Deputy Chief of Public Affairs for the U.S. Army.