America's Forgotten Heroes Podcast
1) Dick Rutan Breaks a Promise
By the mid 1980s, all of the aviation records that had so challenged the imaginations of pilots and the public alike had been achieved… except for one. Lindbergh had crossed the Atlantic. Aircraft had...Show More
2) Frank Luke Draws His Sidearm
Frank Luke was America’s second highest scoring ace in World War One. Over the course of twelve furious days, he shot down 17 enemy aircraft, many of them observation balloons, by far the most importa...Show More
3) Ernest Evans Orders Left Full Rudder
As a young officer on an obsolete destroyer in the opening days of World War Two, Ernest Evans had watched a combined American, British and Australian fleet get decimated by the seemingly unstoppable ...Show More
4) Booker T. Washington Catches the Late Train
Born into slavery on a Virginia plantation, Booker T. Washington’s relentless pursuit of an education would eventually bring him such renown that he would become the first Black American ever invited ...Show More
5) John Paul Jones Sails Back from the War
John Paul was the son of a Scottish gardener, denied a career as an officer in the Royal Navy due to his humble origins. Falsely accused of murder —twice — he abandoned a career as a successful mercha...Show More
6) Jimmy Doolittle Releases the Brakes
On the morning of December 8th, 1941, the vaunted US Pacific fleet lay deep in the mud at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Americans were stunned, but this was just the beginning, as the Japanese rampaged ...Show More
7) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Calls for the Bayonet
On July 3, 1863, Union forces easily took up a defensive line along a small rise call Cemetery Ridge in the peaceful Pennsylvania crossroad village called Gettysburg. But the extreme far left of the U...Show More
8) America's Forgotten Heroes Launch Trailer
We are the children of heroes. These are the stories of seven men whose courage, determination skill are so remarkable that it is nearly impossible to credit them as true. But the stories are true. Th...Show More