Journalist and author Thomas Clavin joins the show to discuss the harrowing journey of Joe Moser, an American fighter pilot during World War II and the subject of Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival. 

Times

• 01:41 - Introduction 
• 03:33 - Why a book on Joe Moser
• 09:44 - The Lockheed P-38 Lightning 
• 11:09 - August 13, 1944
• 13:48 - Nazis send Moser to Buchenwald
• 15:44 - Buchenwald and the concentration camp system
• 17:48 - Karl-Otto and Ilse Koch
• 19:36 - Life at Buchenwald
• 21:34 - Colonel Phil Lamason
• 23:00 - Hannes Trautloft and Moser’s survival
• 27:27 - Leaving Buchenwald 
• 31:47 - Joe after the war