Episode 253 MAYOR HIRSCH ( Part 1 ) Preparing For War ( 6 - part Special Series)

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Welcome to a very special edition of shows over the next couple of weeks. Over the next seven episodes we will be looking back at the extraordinary life of the former Mayor of my hometown, of Myrtle Beach S.C. His name was Robert J. "Bob" Hirsch and he recently celebrated his 100th birthday. In another milestone, for our community, City Councilman Phil Render, himself the son of a World War 2 Veteran, achieved the passage of a Myrtle Beach World War 2 Memorial that is located near the entrance way to the Market Common area of Myrtle Beach in Warbird Park. Market Commons is located in the footprint of the old Myrtle Beach Air Force Base.
Mayor Bob Hirsch was the Keynote speaker at the event when the World War 2 Memorial was opened to the public. It was there, while I was recording the event, for an earlier episode of our podcast that it hit me that Mayor Hirsch would be the perfect first guest for an interview on his life and career. This podcast was originally a show dedicated to reviewing the Leadership Lessons we could learn from a generation of Americans, born in the height of the Great Depression, who were forced to go to World War, and then came home to build the American Century that has afforded all of us a quality of life only dreamed about in most of the rest of the World, and by earlier generations of Americans too.
While this show has centered on the Cold War Presidents, and other well known political figures, we have in Mayor Hirsch the living embodiment of all of those lessons living right here in our town. I am sure that communities all over America and the World have similar figures, often unsung heroes, who exemplify these same leadership traits. I thought as a I sat there listening to the Mayor's speech what a gift we could be given to examine his life as an example all of us could learn from and follow.
In this first episode, we shall re-live the start of World War 2, and listen in as he describes how he, and all those like him, had to step up to take on the Nazi nemesis and that of Imperial Japan. We will also look back on the dawn of June 6, 1944 and the invasion that spelled the beginning of the end of World War 2. While Mayor Hirsch arrived just days after the invasion he will shed amazing light on the incredible stories of that day, and the rest of the march across Europe to the end of the bloodiest war in history.

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1. thank you message from the podcast producer, Randal Wallace (00:00:00)

2. Myrtle Beach City Council Meeting August 22, 2023 in honor of Former Mayor Robert J. Hirsch's 100th Birthday (00:00:42)

3. Intro Music WW2 Era (00:08:03)

4. World War 2 intro montage opening (00:08:37)

5. Senator Bob Dole talking to School Children at the World War 2 Memorial - You Tube Video (00:09:06)

6. Senator Ted Stevens discussing a total World War - Oral History Dan Inouye Foundation (00:09:31)

7. Senator Dan Inouye addresses the U.S. Senate on being at Pearl Harbor on the day of the attack - C-Span (00:10:00)

8. News report on Pearl Harbor Attack - December 7, 1941 (00:10:47)

9. Address to the nation following the attack on Pearl Harbor by President Franklin Roosevelt to a joint session of Congress December 1941 (00:12:44)

10. Remember Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary Video from The Pearl Harbor Foundation (00:13:46)

11. Interview with Mayor Bob Hirsch "Everyone Stepped up" (00:16:49)

12. Interview with Mayor Bob Hirsch " Air Corp Reserve, IQ Tests, Tiger the Dog " (00:18:35)

13. Interview with Mayor Bob Hirsch " Did you have the same plane the entire time? " " Being a pilot" (00:23:52)

14. Interview with Mayor Bob Hirsch " What is it like getting ready to fly into battle? " (00:26:52)

15. Military Memoirs interview with Bob Hirsch by Rod Gragg for CCU (00:27:43)

16. D-Day Radio Broadcast - Chester Wilmont (00:40:24)

17. D-Day Radio Broadcast - 0250 AM - CBS Radio (00:40:58)

18. Musical Montage of speeches from D-Day by General Dwight Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (00:44:20)

19. President Franklin Roosevelt's radio address and prayer to announce that the D-Day invasion had begun (00:47:35)

20. Closing music Special World War 2 Era (00:53:58)