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Podcast: The Silver King's War
Episode: Bonus Episode: History of Glenn L. Martin, Part 1
Description: Send us a textThis special bonus episode describes the early history of Glenn L. Martin, the man who made Stanley's plane, the famed B-26 Martin Marauder. Martin, known as "The Flying Dude," began his aviation career building a bi-plane in an empty former Methodist church in downtown Santa Ana in 1909. Michael G. Sievers, the writer, producer & creator of "The Silver King's War," discusses Glenn Martin's development as an industrial giant who built the B-26 in Middle River, Maryland. A small part of the war's industrial irony is that our hero, The Silver King, was posted to the...