Episode Details

Journalist and author Thomas Clavin joins the show to discuss the harrowing journey of Joe Moser, an American fighter pilot during World War II and the subject of Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival. 

Times

• 01:41 - Introduction 
• 03:33 - Why a book on Joe Moser
• 09:44 - The Lockheed P-38 Lightning 
• 11:09 - August 13, 1944
• 13:48 - Nazis send Moser to Buchenwald
• 15:44 - Buchenwald and the concentration camp system
• 17:48 - Karl-Otto and Ilse Koch
• 19:36 - Life at Buchenwald
• 21:34 - Colonel Phil Lamason
• 23:00 - Hannes Trautloft and Moser’s survival
• 27:27 - Leaving Buchenwald 
• 31:47 - Joe after the war