Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast.

Episode 296, an interview with Brian Rigg about his book, Flamethrower.

It wouldjima metal of honor recipient and US Marine Woody Williams and his controversial

award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War.

Brian Mark Rigg has a passion for history and social justice and lives by the themes

he took to heart during his time in the US Marine Corps and at Yale University.

Those principles were the impetus behind his decision to set up his own firm, Rigg

Wealth Management in 2009.

He is also the author of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, which won the William E. Colby Award

for Military History and was featured on NBC's TV's Dateline.

He is also the author of Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, Untold Tales of Men of Jewish

Descent, who fought for the Third Reich and the Rabbi saved by Hitler's soldiers.

Mr. Rigg, thank you very much for being with us today.

Hey, it's good to be here.

Thanks so much, Ray.

Absolutely.

Now, I have to be honest with you, if this interview takes four hours, it's your own dang

fault because you're the one who wrote an incredibly detailed book about the second

half of the Pacific War.

And only then did you get to the details of the battle of Iwo Jima.

So that's my weird way of thanking you for writing this book.

I enjoyed it very much.

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