And the Oh, Welcome everyone to another episode from 1001 Heroes, legends, histories and mysteries.

This one, a very special author interview with Sally Mott Freeman, whose new book, The Jersey

Brothers, is climbing toward the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list and

it has a real good chance of becoming a movie and for good reason it's an

incredible true World War II story that involved three members of her family, her father and his two brothers,

her uncles, all in the U.S. Navy, and deeply involved in World War II.

One, her dad, Navy Intel, FDR's right-hand man in charge of the war room at the White House.

Two, the youngest of the three, Uncle Barton, wounded, captured by the Japanese in the Philippines, his fate unknown, and three, Uncle Benny, a gunnery

and anti-aircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, right in the thick of it in the Pacific War.

Like the sockets of Louis Lamour fame, this family, when threatened,

stops at nothing to find one of their own in trouble.

And you, the reader, are part of a search for the wounded and missing younger brother

a search played out against the brutal backdrop of the war in the Pacific.

It's a family saga you won't be able to put down.

Sally Mod Freeman has spent a decade researching every detail of this book,

and the story she's put together is gripping from the very start.

Welcome, Sally, it's great to have this opportunity to talk to you about your terrific book.

Thank you. I mean, it's a story that we heard many times growing up about this mysterious Uncle Barton who did not return from World War II and no

matter how much we Mott children theorized over time the various explanations of what happened

to him really never squared and when I was organizing

my parents papers I found in the attic a stack of my father's naval intelligence files and also his White House

map room files because right after the outbreak of World War II he was transferred

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