July 1, 2020August 23, 2020

20th century military history book – “Saving Israel” (Stackpole Books, 2020) – Boaz Dvir interview

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Boaz Dvir is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He spent ten years researching the creation of the Israeli Air Force in 1948. He produced a documentary on the subject titled “A Wing and a Prayer” which was shown on PBS. He then wrote a book on the subject. We spoke about the Israeli Air Force of 1948, the secret methods needed to create it, the writing of the book, and what it took to research it.

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0:51 – Boaz talks about why he wrote this book.

3:41 – Boaz talks about how the Israelis were armed with Nazi weapons in 1948.

4:25 – Boaz summarizes what led up to the Arab-Israeli War of 1948.

7:35 – Boaz talks about what he focuses on in the book.

12:32 – Boaz talks about how the Arab were threatening to annihilate the Israelis.

14:41 – Boaz talks about the US Army flight engineer who started the operation to arm Israel.

19:59 – Boaz talks about how the Jewish-American underground set up an airline to fly people into Israel.

23:05 – Boaz talks about how Adolf became an international arms smuggler.

26:54 – Boaz talks about military resistance to the smuggling of weapons.

31:41 – Boaz talks about what the Israeli Air Force consisted of before the 1948 war and what had been created by the end of the war.

32:58 – Boaz talks in detail about the planes they brought into Israel.

35:35 – Boaz talks about the initial operations on both sides during the 1948 war.

39:22 – Boaz talks about the air war during the 1948 war and the initial Arab advantage.

41:54 – Boaz talks about how Israel used Nazi weapons in the 1948 war.

45:14 – Boaz talks about the research he did for the book.

49:10 – Boaz talks about coming across one of the old C-47s used in the 1948 war.

51:19 – Boaz talks about how amazing it was to talk to the US WWII veterans.

54:26 – Boaz talks about the emotional responses to this subject matter.

54:53 – Boaz talked about his surprise at US antagonism towards Israel in 1948.

59:10 – Boaz talks about how the USSR indirectly armed Israel.

1:04:01 – Boaz talks about influence of Jewish Russians on Israel.

1:05:22 – Boaz talks about the British pilots who flew against Israel and the shoot-down of a British reconnaissance plane.

1:08:21 – Boaz talks about the two types of Egyptian pilots that the Israeli pilots faced in 1948.

1:09:52 – Boaz talks about the victims of the war.

1:17:14 – Boaz talks about how the people in his book were innovative.

1:22:30 – Boaz can be found on facebook at Boaz Dvir and on twitter @BoazDvir.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/2ZnM73r

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780811737265/Saving-Israel-The-Unknown-Story-of-Smuggling-Weapons-and-Winning-a-Nation%E2%80%99s-Independence

https://twitter.com/boazdvir?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Guests: Boaz Dvir

Host: Cris Alvarez

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June 19, 2020May 16, 2021

How the NIH developed US scientists like Anthony Fauci and Nobel Prize winners during the Vietnam War – Interview with Raymond Greenberg

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How the NIH developed US scientists like Anthony Fauci and Nobel prize winners during the Vietnam War – Interview with Raymond Greenberg

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Raymond Greenberg has spent decades in the field of medicine. He recently wrote a book on Nobel prize winners who worked at the National Institutes of Health during the Vietnam War. We spoke about the book, military medicine, WWII, the Vietnam War, and the process of getting the book published. Medal Winners (University of Texas Health Press, 2020)

0:52 – Ray talks about his interest in the history of Nobel laureates.

2:26 – Ray talks about the term “Yellow Beret”

6:30 – Ray talks about the research that these scientists worked on at NIH.

7:29 – Ray talks about the Naval Medical Hospital.

8:07 – Ray talks about Dr. Anthony Fauci’s connection to these programs.

8:44 – Ray talks about tropical diseases and war.

9:52 – Ray talks about the obligations these doctors had when drafted.

12:09 – Ray talks about the “golden age” of physicians doing research.

15:39 – Ray talks about the unintended effects of the draft in developing new scientists and medicine.

18:11 – Ray talks about Dr. Fauci’s involvement with anthrax issues after 9/11.

19:46 – Ray talks about alternatives the military created to the doctors’ draft including the Uniformed Services Medical School.

22:00 – Ray talks about how the book is divided into pre-NIH years, the time the scientists spent at the NIH, and then their Nobel prizes.

24:44 – Ray talks about medical advances made during the Vietnam War including rapid evacuation.

26:00 – Ray talks about how he researched the book including interviews with the Nobel prize winners.

27:52 – Ray talks about when people understood the nexus between NIH and the Nobel prize winners.

31:24 – Ray talks about how the end of the Vietnam War negatively affected the NIH.

34:20 – Ray talks about applications to the Uniformed Health Services.

36:20 – Ray talks about foreign doctors at NIH.

37:30 – Ray talks about Vietnamese scientists during the Vietnam War.

38:18 – Ray talks about the interviewing process.

38:56 – Ray talks about the winners’ feelings about having been in the program.

42:29 – Ray talks about the cultural benefits of working at the NIH during the Vietnam War.

45:26 – Ray talks about the purpose of the NIH and how it was expanded during WWII to develop combat advantages. One concern was German biomedical advances to create better fighters.

49:09 – Ray talks about how WWII was a major turning point in the development of smart warfare.

53:03 – Ray differentiates between doctors and scientist-doctors.

57:28 – More information on Ray’s can be found on the University of Texas Press website.

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https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/greenberg-medal-winners

Guests: Raymond Greenberg

Host: Cris Alvarez

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