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Ep 106: John McManus on the U.S. Army’s Pacific War
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John McManus, author of To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 and host of the We Have Ways of Making You Talk in the USA podcast, joins the show to talk about why the U.S. Army’s war in the Pacific during WWII merit deeper study and recognition.
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• 02:12 Introduction
• 03:57 Lessons to be learned
• 05:32 The Army from Pearl to Tokyo
• 08:50 Winds of change
• 14:07 Europe first
• 21:16 Taiwan or the Philippines?
• 27:55 Battleground Manila
• 30:48 Bleeding the Americans
• 34:56 Failures in China
• 40:33 Chiang Kai-shek
• 45:07 Okinawa
• 48:06 Operation Downfall
• 52:24 Revisionist and reductionist history
• 55:19 Required reading
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Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
160 episodes
Manage episode 395688379 series 2998419
John McManus, author of To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 and host of the We Have Ways of Making You Talk in the USA podcast, joins the show to talk about why the U.S. Army’s war in the Pacific during WWII merit deeper study and recognition.
▪️
Times
• 02:12 Introduction
• 03:57 Lessons to be learned
• 05:32 The Army from Pearl to Tokyo
• 08:50 Winds of change
• 14:07 Europe first
• 21:16 Taiwan or the Philippines?
• 27:55 Battleground Manila
• 30:48 Bleeding the Americans
• 34:56 Failures in China
• 40:33 Chiang Kai-shek
• 45:07 Okinawa
• 48:06 Operation Downfall
• 52:24 Revisionist and reductionist history
• 55:19 Required reading
Follow along on Instagram
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
160 episodes
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