
Episode 538: The Manhattan Project Part VI - The Greatest Generation
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The Story of John Hirssey
john hirssey had been a war correspondent embedded with allied forces during the invasion of sisily in addition He'd survived four plane crashes and had assisted in evacuating wounded soldiers in guadalcanal Well, you all tell me when he's embedded with the enemy But the thing is is that he did believe He saw that the world war two story that we were all getting was not quite as clean cut. Part of what the this story I think is kind of symbolic of is that this war was fucked up too Yeah,. Like while this was supposedly the last quote-unquote like good one or whatever like but this just This is the most messed up war that ever existed It was fuck
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