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 Lightening Down: A World War II Story of Survival. 

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01:41 - Introduction 

03:33 - Why a book on Joe Moser

09:44 - The Lockheed P-38 Lightening 

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