This is an I-Heart podcast.

And we're back with our American stories.

And here to tell another Hollywood Goes to War story is Roger McGrath.

He's the author of Gunfighters, Howman Vigilantees, Violence on the Frontier.

He's also a U.S. Marine and former history professor at UCLA.

Dr. McGrath has appeared on numerous History Channel documentaries

and is a regular contributor for us here at Our American

Stories. Here's McGrath.

Marian C. Cooper was one of Hollywood's most important figures in its golden age. He wrote

his great prominence in 1933 when he co-wrote, directed, and produced the blockbuster King Kong.

Before he retired, he had six credits for directing, 19 for writing, and 68 for producing.

He worked closely with John Ford, producing such Ford classics as Fort Apache. She wore a yellow ribbon,

Rio Grande, Wagon Master, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers. What is generally not known

about Miriam Cooper is his service as a U.S. Army pilot in World War I, and then as the organizer

of the Toskosko Squadron, a group of American pilots who came to Poland's aid and flew with

great distinction in the Polish-Russian War of 1920.

Marion Cooper is born in 1893 in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of a prominent attorney.

Cooper Line goes back to the colonial era in southeastern Georgia.

Rising of prominence during the Revolutionary War is John Cooper, Mirren's great-great-grandfather,

who serves as a colonel alongside Casimir, Pulaski, the Polish cavalry commander.

After a meeting with Ben Franklin in Paris in 1776, Pulaski sails to America

and is soon reorganizing and commanding the Continental Army's cavalry regiments.

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