The podcast episode recounts the stories of nurses who provided essential medical support to injured soldiers during the war, even when they were short of resources and medical equipment.
The episode talks about the soldiers who were deployed with Bowe Bergdahl to Palau, the mission they were on, and the controversy surrounding his disappearance.
Discussion about the mysterious identity and death of the Somerton Man. Different theories suggest that he may have covered up his identity or been dumped by someone who didn't want him to be recognized.
The Nanking Massacre was a period of mass murder and war atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers against the residents of Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Although there were no orders to rape or to exterminate the enemy, there was a take-no-prisoners policy, and Japanese soldiers began to execute Chinese prisoners of war and unarmed deserters who had surrendered.
The speaker shares a story of how him and his friends had the idea of using a boat to cross the St. Clair River from Michigan to Ontario, as a way of escaping during the Vietnam War.