Return to the War with Fred Apgar
Key Battles of American History
Key Battles of American History
4.7 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In this episode, James interviews Fred Apgar, who served as a pilot during the Vietnam War and participated in several missions over Laos. Fred discusses his book Return to the War, in which he narrates his war service and his decision to return to Laos decades later.
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| 0:45.0 | War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding |
| 0:51.4 | right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its size, and established it as a global superpower. |
| 1:00.4 | Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history. |
| 1:04.7 | Welcome to Key Battles of American History, a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important |
| 1:11.2 | battles of America's wars. |
| 1:13.4 | Here is your host, James Early. |
| 1:23.9 | Hello and welcome to Key Battles of American History. |
| 1:26.9 | I'm your host, James Early, as always, |
| 1:29.9 | and we're taking a break from our regular narrative of the war to introduce a special |
| 1:35.9 | guest that I have with me. He is the author of a book that talks about his service during the |
| 1:40.1 | Vietnam War. Our guest's name today is Fred Apgar. Fred joined the United States Air Force |
| 1:45.9 | in 1967, and following completion of officer training school, he attended the Armed Forces Air |
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