Show notes
Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and amphibious warfare.
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i have difficulty finding a more consequential 15 minutes in military history anywhere than what happens from 10 25 a.m for the next 5 10 15 minutes of time
“it's a weird twist of history that had they not been as good at their job and a little smoke had been pouring out of the top of the yorktown she might have been spared instead she takes two torpedoes”
“the ill treatment and torturing of australian troops was done by the order of their officers so that the japanese soldiers would fight and not surrender because the same things would be done to them now that these atrocities had been committed on the australians”
“mccowa lit up his searchlight and used it as a pointer like a bright white finger in the night it illuminated one american ship after another as if to say here fire on this ship”
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