The Warrior Next Door Podcast
We explore the oral histories of World War II veterans from interviews conducted by your hosts Tony Lupo and Ryan Fairfield. We play selected clips from these veteran interviews to explore their experiences in their own words with the hosts providing compelling commentary and historical context. Be ready to get some mud on your boots!
Episodes
273 episodes
"The American St Nick" - PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER EDITION
PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER: Welcome to an exclusive Warrior Next Door Podcast presentation. A full UNCUT reading of the extraordinary true WWII story “The American St Nick”. It is the remarkable story of a few GI’s of the 28th Infantry Division w...
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Season 4
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Episode 229
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4:48:13
"The American St Nick" - Chapters 1 thru 4; Episode 1 of 4
Welcome to Episode 1 of an exclusive Warrior Next Door Podcast presentation. A full reading of the true WWII story “The American St Nick”. It is the remarkable story of a few GI’s of the 28th Infantry Division who brought Christmas to the child...
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Season 4
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Episode 230
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AIR RAID EDITION! Friend of TWND, Berten Smekens, shares some of his experiences detecting unexploded ordnance in Flanders!
Europe has experienced warfare and violence at a scale most Americans can't fathom. As a result, countless millions of rounds of artillery, some of which is still buried in the earth poses a clear a present danger to 21st century citizens.<...
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Season 5
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Episode 295
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1:30:24
Julius Ernst Jakob - A soldier in the Czech army, the German Wehrmacht and a POW during WW2 - Episode 4 of 4
Join us as Julius Jakob shares his account of what it was like to be a Czechoslovakian citizen who was forced to fight for the Wehrmacht after his country was annexed by Nazi Germany prior to WW2. Julius was a Sudaten German in Czec...
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Season 5
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Episode 294
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39:06
Julius Ernst Jakob - A soldier in the Czech army, the German Wehrmacht and a POW during WW2 - Episode 3 of 4
Join us as Julius Jakob shares his account of what it was like to be a Czechoslovakian citizen who was forced to fight for the Wehrmacht after his country was annexed by Nazi Germany prior to WW2. Julius was a Sudaten German in Czec...
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Season 5
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Episode 293
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46:36
Julius Ernst Jakob - A soldier in the Czech army, the German Wehrmacht and a POW during WW2 - Episode 2 of 4
Join us as Julius Jakob shares his account of what it was like to be a Czechoslovakian citizen who was forced to fight for the Wehrmacht after his country was annexed by Nazi Germany prior to WW2. Julius was a Sudaten German in Czec...
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Season 5
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Episode 292
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46:36
Julius Ernst Jakob - A soldier in the Czech army, the German Wehrmacht and a POW during WW2 - Episode 1 of 4
Join us as Julius Jakob shares his account of what it was like to be a Czechoslovakian citizen who was forced to fight for the Wehrmacht after his country was annexed by Nazi Germany prior to WW2. Julius was a Sudaten German in Czec...
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Season 5
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Episode 290
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35:11
Julius Ernst Jakob - A soldier in the Czech army, the German Wehrmacht and a POW during WW2 - All Episodes
Join us as Julius Jakob shares his account of what it was like to be a Czechoslovakian citizen who was forced to fight for the Wehrmacht after his country was annexed by Nazi Germany prior to WW2. Julius was a Sudaten German in Czec...
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Season 5
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Episode 291
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2:44:56
Betty Hayes - An actual "Rosie the Riveter"! EP 2 of 2
Welcome to Episode 2 of our two part series featuring Ms. Betty Hayes, who worked in the North American B-25 factory in Kansas City, KS during WWII. In this episode we hear more about her experiences working on the home front and learn of some ...
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Season 5
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Episode 289
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48:25
Betty Hayes - An actual "Rosie the Riveter"! EP 1 of 2
Welcome listeners to Episode 1 of our 2 part series featuring an actual "Rosie the Riveter" during WWII - Ms. Betty Hayes. In this episode we meet Betty and hear about how she got involved in war effort on the home front building B-25 bombers.&...
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Season 5
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Episode 288
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45:38
Ms. Betty Hayes - An actual "Rosie the Riveter"!
In this series, we feature Ms. Betty Hayes - an actual "Rosie the Riveter" who worked during WWII at the Kansas City, KS North American factory building B-25's for the war effort. This interview was conducted on October 10, 2025, just one day b...
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Season 5
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Episode 287
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1:31:42
TWND and Ray Harris Jr. Discuss Top Five Nazi Blunders! Part 2 of 2
The Warrior Next Door and pleased to have collaborated with Ray Harris Jr. of The History of WW2 Podcast to discuss our Top Five Nazi Blunders of WW2! Please leave your top five on our website warriornextdoor.com or our facebook page!
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Season 5
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Episode 285
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47:37
Tony and Ryan Share Listener Feedback from 2025! All Parts - Premium Subscriber
The Warrior Next Door and pleased to have collaborated with Ray Harris Jr. of The History of WW2 Podcast to discuss our Top Five Nazi Blunders of WW2! Please leave your top five on our website warriornextdoor.com or our facebook page!
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Season 5
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Episode 286
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1:45:48
TWND and Ray Harris Jr. Discuss Top Five Nazi Blunders! Part 1 of 2
The Warrior Next Door and pleased to have collaborated with Ray Harris Jr. of The History of WW2 Podcast to discuss our Top Five Nazi Blunders of WW2! Please leave your top five on our website warriornextdoor.com or our facebook page!
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Season 5
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Episode 284
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59:08
Tony and Ryan Share Listener Feedback from 2025! Part 2 of 2
Nothing makes us more determined to continue sharing these amazing stories than receiving feedback, good and bad, from our listeners. We wanted to share some of the feedback we've received in the first half of 2025 so that our listeners know we...
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Season 5
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Episode 283
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35:55
EP 4 of 4 Cpl. William M. "Bill" Sims - US ARMY DDAY WWII
Welcome to the final episode of the Bill Sims series. In this episode Bill talks about liberating a concentration camp at Ohrdruf Germany, a pathetic experience he had witnessing a German citizen trying to fire a bazooka at them and a bad exper...
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Season 5
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Episode 288
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43:14
EP 3 of 4 Cpl. William M. "Bill" Sims - US ARMY DDAY WWII
Welcome to Episode 3 of the Bill Sims series. In this episode Bill talks about action he saw pertaining to Gen. Patton, St. Lo, Aachen and the bridge at Remagen.
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Episode 287
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42:49
EP 2 of 4 Cpl. William M. "Bill" Sims - US ARMY DDAY WWII
Welcome to Episode 2 of the 4 part Bill Sims series. In this episode Bill tells a never before known story about Pattons "polite" way of interrogating captured german officers and we learned about Bill’s fighting across France all the way to Aa...
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Season 5
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Episode 286
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48:17
EP 1 of 4 Cpl. William M. "Bill" Sims - US ARMY DDAY WWII
Welcome to the Cpl. Bill Sims series, a Lineman in the Signal Corps in the US Army. In episode one we meet Bill and hear about his entrance into the Army and being in England on DDay watching the planes fly over.
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Season 5
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Episode 285
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44:26
Cpl. William M. "Bill" Sims - US ARMY DDAY WWII - PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER
Welcome to the Cpl. Bill Sims premium episode. Cpl. Sims was a Lineman, stringing communications wire from the front lines and was at the tip of the spear on the front. He witnessed many "firsts" in this role including being one of the first Li...
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Season 5
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Episode 284
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2:49:47
Tony and Ryan Share Listener Feedback from 2025! Part 1 of 2
Nothing makes us more determined to continue sharing these amazing stories than receiving feedback, good and bad, from our listeners. We wanted to share some of the feedback we've received in the first half of 2025 so that our listeners know we...
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Season 5
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Episode 282
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33:24
Can a veteran's trauma be inherited by their children? Join our discussion with therapist Eveline Konings to find out!
Can trauma experienced by a WWII veteran change his DNA? Can it be passed down to their children? Join us for our eye opening discussion with Eveline Konings, a TRE-Counselor and therapist from Belgium.
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Season 5
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Episode 258
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1:04:09
Charles Berglund: US Navy, WWII - Heavy Cruiser USS New Orleans and Cold War Nuclear Submarines - Episode 4 of 4
Join us as Charles Berglund, a medic and sailor, describes his experiences on the heavy cruiser USS New Orleans (CA-32) as it fought its way across the pacific in some of the most pivotal battles of the War in the Pacific! After Wor...
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Season 5
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Episode 280
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36:09
Charles Berglund: US Navy, WWII - Heavy Cruiser USS New Orleans and Cold War Nuclear Submarines - Episode 3 of 4
Join us as Charles Berglund, a medic and sailor, describes his experiences on the heavy cruiser USS New Orleans (CA-32) as it fought its way across the pacific in some of the most pivotal battles of the War in the Pacific! After Wor...
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Season 5
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Episode 279
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PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER: Conversation with author/military historian Dr. Colin Heaton
Welcome to our Dr. Colin Heaton interview; a prolific author, military historian and professor who has interviewed many famous and infamous veterans from all sides of WWII. This is a fast-paced and information packed discussion. Buckle up! ...
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Season 5
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Episode 281
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1:26:28