In this special episode, historian Jennifer Putnam, PhD, interviews Antony Penrose, son of WWII war correspondent Lee Miller and author of The Lives of Lee Miller. The new film Lee stars Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet, portraying the trailblazing photojournalist.

Garrett M. Graff, author of The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb, explores one of humanity’s most daring ventures—the clandestine, high-stakes race by a small cadre of scientists and engineers to tap into the universe’s most elemental force and create the atomic bomb.

On March 18, 1945, the biggest wartime bombing raid on Berlin showed that the German air force was still a dangerous and defiant foe.

DPAA and Families Gather

World War II shaped the kind of person, musician, and composer Dave Brubeck became.