Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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1998's The Thin Red Line is set during the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II. How well did it do telling the true story? Historian and author Marty Morgan joins Based on a True Story to help us separate fact from fiction in the film.



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Get Marty's book D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion: links.boatspodcast.com/256ddaybook
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