Podcast Episodes

Episode 245: War Heroes

Episode 245

During World War II, more than a few Arizonans left their marks on the battles raging across Europe and in the Pacific. A Marine from the state would…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Programming Notice 6

January has not been kind for the podcast schedule - and now it’s taken out my voice so I couldn’t release this week’s episode on time.

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 244: The Home Front

Episode 244

As World War II erupted halfway across the world, back in Arizona, thousands were asking the same question - what can I do? From rationing to finding…

3 months ago

Episode 243: Leaving the Camps

Episode 243

Even as the camps for Japanese Americans were going up, plans were in the works to have them move permanently away from the West Coast. By early 1945…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 242: Shikata Ga Nai

Episode 242

Life in a concentration camp, even an American one, was never going to be pleasant. But the tens of thousands of imprisoned Japanese Americans found …

4 months ago

Episode 241: Roasten, Toasten, Dustin

Episode 241

Starting in March 1942, 120,000 Japanese Americans were removed from the West Coast and sent to 10 camps where they would ride out the majority of th…

4 months, 1 week ago

Episode 240: The Salt River War

Episode 240

Even in the decades before the 1942 executive order to remove them all from the West Coast of America, life for Japanese Americans in Arizona wasn’t …

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 239: The Great Papago Escape, Part II: The Crazy Boatmen

Episode 239

After their daring breakout on the evening of December 23, 1944, the 25 escaping German POWs tried various methods to get to freedom. They would be h…

5 months, 1 week ago

Episode 238: The Great Papago Escape, Part 1: The Tunnel

Episode 238

Starting in 1943, 3,000 German prisoners of war, mostly naval men, would be held in a POW camp at Papago Park. In 1944, 28 of those deemed to be trou…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 237: Prisoners of War

Episode 237

Starting in 1943, thousands of German and Italian POWs were shipped to Arizona. They would leave a mostly honorable legacy while the Sonoran Desert a…

5 months, 3 weeks ago