![NPR Topics: Story of the Day Podcast show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/011/349/small/npr-story-of-the-day.jpg)
Summary: Jake McNiece was the leader of a crack U.S. Army paratrooper unit that dropped behind German lines on D-Day. With their wild antics, McNiece's group was known as "The Filthy Thirteen" and inspired Robert Aldrich's macho film classic <em>The Dirty Dozen</em>.