This is an I-Heart podcast.

What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

What difference at this point does it make?

Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

...or wherever you get your podcasts. And we return to our American stories.

And up next, an incredible story from John O'Neill at the National Museum of the Mighty 8h Air Force in Pooler, Georgia, outside of Savannah.

In 1943, John's father, John J. O'Neill Jr. served as a tail and waste gunner on an experimental B-17 that became the first American plane to bomb Berlin.

All by some extraordinary chance, here's John

with his story. In 1943, the United States Air Force had one problem. Weather was hampering operations.

The British came over and said, look, we need the real hardware, guns, boats, ammunition.

We have some secrets that we're willing to trade for those.

One of them was radar.

The United States was so far behind in radar, the British were so far ahead.

So when Roosevelt heard that, he said, give them what they want.

We want their information because the Germans had radar. They knew when bombers were coming

over and where they were crossing. So MIT, 3,000 scientists took this information and built

the first operational United States radar sets to be put in specially equipped B-17s, all top secret.

They could literally do navigation and bomb through overcast.

My father's friend, Major Fred Raybo, was tasked with bringing these 12 B-17s from Boston, what's now Logan Airport, with the first radar sets in them.

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