210. The Battle of Leyte Gulf

Battleground

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4.6 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The Battle of Leyte Gulf, fought between US and Japanese naval forces in October 1944 is the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 personnel involved. Joining Saul to discuss the events of this enormous battle is historian Evan Mawdsley. Together they discuss the main components of the battle, they key players and their decisions and the aftermath of the battle. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X (Twitter): @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.5	Today I'm delighted to welcome back Evan Maudsley to the podcast to talk about the Battle of Lately Gulf
0:52.7	that was fought off the Philippines between the naval forces of Japan and the United States from the 23rd to the podcast to talk about the Battle of Lately Gulf that was fought off the Philippines between
0:54.3	the naval forces of Japan and the United States from the 23rd to the 26th of October,
0:59.8	94, almost exactly 80 years ago. Evan is a former professor of international history at the
1:06.0	University of Glasgow and the author of the excellent supremacy at sea, Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific
1:12.5	Victory, which we spoke about before, of course, Evan, and which takes the story up to the
1:17.3	Battle of the Philippine Sea. So as a starting point, it might be worth discussing where we've got
1:22.5	to since the Philippine Sea, why the Americans have decided to invade the Philippines, because it was a
1:28.7	controversial decision, wasn't it? And what the Japanese are planning to do in response?
1:33.8	Yes. First thing on the American side, the victory in the Philippine Sea and the capture
1:39.0	of the islands and the Marianas then opened the question of where we go next. And there is a division, as you suggest,
1:45.9	about where we go next, because there are really two parties involved. One party is the Navy,
1:51.0	the other is the Army. The Navy's Admiral Nimitz, and it's based in Hawaii. The Army is General
1:56.0	MacArthur, and he's based in Australia and fighting in New Guinea. So there's, there is no overall
2:02.8	American commander in the Pacific area. So this, in a way, in the end, the principal, the principal
2:09.0	decision is actually made by the president who has to adjudicate between these two guys. On
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