John Irwin

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968 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 492: Jon Erwin—Young Washington · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

What have you done for me lately?

I would love to do a short film of this painter that's literally breaking into someone's house and like move, move, just get a- I need a brush.

You know, and he's like, Yeah.

I mean technology I think by the way, so

If uh to go on that rabbit trail, so we're

So they're the lead plane.

Their plane was called the city of Los Angeles.

Um and it's the Pathfinder.

So they're leading eight hundred planes.

Uh LeMay, which is kind of like the patent of the Pacific.

Like Curtis?

Curtis LeMay, yeah.

Was like, you never turn around.

Mission over the man, you never turn around.

Well, there was a colonel on board when this happened and they they started to descend um because the plane was filled with smoke.

He marched it to the front of the plane, threw it out over the colonel's shoulder, collapsed in flames.

The colonel was so moved by what he saw that he said, I don't care if they court martial me, turn this plane around right now.

Um so they drop out and they were like, We're gonna try to save this man's life 'cause I've I've never seen anything like this.

So the airstrip at Iwo Jima had just opened.

There was still um there was still basically uh uh conflict at Iwo Jima.

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