The Man Who Inspired Saving Private Ryan's Gnarliest Moments

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Improv, Comedy, History

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Staff Sergeant Ray Lambert hit Dog Green Sector of Omaha Beach with the first wave on D-Day. He was a medic. His job was to save, not kill. But that fact did not prevent him from taking an absolute BEATING on the beach that day. Despite multiple horrific wounds throughout the morning, he never stopped treating wounded soldiers. He might have had the most brutal day of anyone on Omaha Beach who didn't die or lose a limb. Still, he never stopped saving lives. Not even when his own side accidentally tried to drown him. Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the Softcore History Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Check out Praesidus Watch Co.'s new A-11 LMUV watch series that commemorates D-Day's 82nd anniversary, made from steel from a real Willys MB. That AND the A-11 Utah Beach series, made with real sand from Utah Beach. -- https://praesidus.com/pages/dday-82 Get 10% off ZIppix Toothpicks with code SOFTCORE at https://zippixtoothpicks.com/discount/SOFTCORE Rob Fox⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dan Regester ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/danregester/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.8	host for the week, Rob Fox, joined as always by Dan Regester. Always the pleasure to have you in the
0:31.5	house, Rob. I'm happy to be here. I got a zip-ix in my mouth, and we're doing a fun D-Day episode
0:37.1	today because the
0:37.9	82nd anniversary is coming up. You shameless piece of shit. Sorry I'm mentioning advertisers on this show.
0:45.7	Right off the bat. That's getting advertised. I got a zip-ex. I like these things.
0:49.3	This is why the AI figured we'd have an ad rate at three minutes when we did our episode on the Patreon.
0:56.0	Oh, yeah, an AI was immediately like first ad read right now.
1:01.6	But yeah, that's what we're doing.
1:02.8	But now this episode, we're doing a D-Day episode, and our friends at Perseidus watch
1:06.6	company who sent us a really cool Iwo Jima watch to do an episode on the Pacific
1:12.4	theater. D-Day is coming up. So they were like, hey, we have a sweet D-Day watch collection
1:17.9	coming out, the A-11 LMUV, which is made from Real Willys M-B. Now, you don't know what
1:24.0	Willie's M-B is. It's a certain type of vehicle. It's very famous from World War II. And its real name is very copyrighted. And I am not allowed to say it. But you can just Google Willie's MB. Suffice it to say, lots of soldiers were driving around in these things. And the watches are made from real steel from the Willie's MBs. And they're really cool. The Iwo Jeeba watch was dope, but I like these ones better because they're, they're just like, look like normal military watches. So I think they're pretty sweet. But anyway, we're doing a D-Day episode in honor of their watch and the 82nd anniversary of your D-Day. In honor of the Czech clearing. Also, yeah, D-Day Saturday. So, yeah, it's a good time to do it. Uh-huh. I'm actually doing a D-Day video at work right now. So, lines up. It's on everyone's mind. Everyone says the 82nd anniversary is the biggest one. Many say that. Yeah. You get to 82.
2:18.9	It's gravy from there.
2:19.2	Yeah.
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