Corona Chronicles Vol. 12: The Boise City Bombing

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Boise City, Oklahoma, 1943: The US Air Force bombs a small town on accident but otherwise the mission was a total success.

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0:00.0	Featuring Joe Swaney from Thinking Sideways Podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney, this is The Shocking Details.
0:15.2	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the Corona Chronicles, broughtought to you by The Shocking Details Podcast.
0:22.8	I am Joe, joined as always by Caldoni.
0:25.8	Yes, okay.
0:26.8	And we've got another shocking tale for you.
0:30.2	A tale of another bombing.
0:31.7	Actually, we've kind of been on a bomber kick lately.
0:34.6	Have you noticed that?
0:36.0	Well, this is just one of the stories, you know, researching
0:38.6	the bomber episode, kind of like the Jimmy Stewart one, where it didn't fit into the episode,
0:43.5	but it was left over. And I just, I just couldn't leave it on the dust heat because it's such a
0:48.9	crazy story. It's a fun little story. Yeah. Well, let's dive right into it. Okay.
0:55.0	It's 1943.
0:56.0	The U.S. has just entered World War II, and we're on this major kick to build up our war-making capacity, to build bombers, build the Army, the Air Force, the Navy to get the materials that we need.
1:10.0	We did, by the way, build a hell of a lot of bombers in World War II.
1:14.2	It was amazing.
1:14.6	And really fast.
1:15.5	I mean, it's pretty cool.
1:16.0	We didn't do that today, I don't think.
1:17.4	Yeah, it'd be tough.
1:18.6	Yeah.
1:18.9	They're at, there's a base put into Dalhart Army base, and it's an Air Force unit that runs out of there. And they'd have four B-17 bombers. And they are doing
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