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 Lieutenant) July 01, 2019
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The usual narrative for WWII is that turning points of the war are in 1942 with the battles of Midway, El Alamein and Stalingrad. While these are unquestionably major victories that signalled the ‘end of the beginning’, as Churchill would put it. Friend of the podcast Andrew Nagorski has...read more

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 Lieutenant) June 15, 2017
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In this episode we’re looking at three brothers all in the US Navy at the start of the war, and their remarkable story. 

Angus is joined by Sally Mott Freeman, her book “The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific...read more

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 Lieutenant) January 06, 2017
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Artwork was done for the movie's release. This art was used for movie posters, theater lobbycards, and on the soundtrack record album. Here is a sample of some of the movie's art:

  1. Main poster
  2. Nightime approach
  3. Launch planes
  4. Vals dive
  5. Rear gunner
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"Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

Franklin D....read more

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"It should have been a turkey shoot for the U.S. Navy."

Few words are more disheartening to Americans than FDR's "day of infamy," and few photos more provocative than the...read more

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The USS Oklahoma was our first battleship equipped with 14-inch rifle main battery. She was the second unit of the Nevada Class, built at Camden, New Jersey in 1914-16. Commissioned in May 1916. The Oklahoma was 583 feet long with a maximum beam of 95 feet. She...read more

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 Lieutenant) March 01, 2016
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In this episode Angus is looking at the Java Sea Campaign, with Jeffrey Cox.

Jeff’s book Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II from Osprey publishing, examines the events following Pearl Harbor.

In their own lighting offensive the Japanese...read more

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 Lieutenant) December 07, 2015

Abe talks about flying over Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This interview is part of an Oral History Showcase from the International Conference on WWII, taking place December 7 to 9, 2011, at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.read more

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 Lieutenant) December 07, 2015

In order to combat the numerically superior American navy, the IJN devoted large amounts of resources to creating a force superior in quality, the objective being of "making up for quantity by means of quality". During the first six months of the war the Imperial Japanese Navy enjoyed...read more

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