CHLOE MELAS | My Grandfather’s Story of the Air War in Europe (Ep. 434)
Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson
Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. |
| 0:24.0 | Our guys today we've got a special guest on the podcast. Her name is Chloe Maloss. So she is a journalist and |
| 0:29.0 | an entertainment reporter for CNN and HLN. She's the granddaughter of World War II pilot Frank Murphy, who |
| 0:35.9 | authored the book, which is the main subject matter for today's interview. And that's luck of the |
| 0:39.9 | draw. Okay. So in this book, Frank Murphy details the almost unbelievable air war that took place |
| 0:46.3 | during World War II. Murphy was one of the few survivors from the 100th bombardment group, |
| 0:51.2 | aka the bloody 100th. Also in the book, Murphy details when his B17 was shot down over enemy territory |
| 0:57.2 | in Germany and spending, you know, almost two years in a German prisoner of war camp. The book is |
| 1:02.9 | actually being re-released by St. Martin's press and Chloe and her mother Elizabeth, Frank's daughter, |
| 1:07.8 | each wrote four words for the new version, which is a very interesting thing. And this name is going |
| 1:12.4 | to sound very familiar to Frank Murphy and some of these other names involved later on this year, |
| 1:16.6 | because this story, Frank's story, is going to be featured prominently in an upcoming Apple TV |
| 1:21.6 | Plus television show called Masters of the Air, which will release later this year. Like I said, |
| 1:26.1 | and the project is headed up by Steven Spielberg and stars Tom Hanks. So this is like a big deal, |
| 1:31.6 | like it's going to be a huge thing. And the fact that this book is being re-released, this book |
| 1:36.0 | was written by Frank Murphy. And the thing about this book, I read every page of it. And as you're |
| 1:40.0 | digging through it, it's incredibly detailed. So if you're a military historian type person, |
| 1:44.3 | it's very, very interesting because there's so much detail, but then there's also a narrative arc |
| 1:49.1 | because you see that with with these books. Some books just have a narrative. Other books are just |
| 1:53.7 | details. This is both. And so I actually gave this book to a buddy of mine that is a pilot and |
| 1:58.6 | you know, he's really nerding out on some of the details, whereas I was nerding out on the actual |
| 2:02.8 | story because it's a it's a crazy story of resilience because this was a young man that was a |
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