258 - USN PT Boats

The WW2 Podcast

Angus Wallace

Rifle, Gun, Second, Army, Ww2, War, Society & Culture, Carlin, Aircraft, Military, Navy, Wwii, World, History, Plane, Armour, Infantry, Tank

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean was a battleground unlike any other during the Second World War. While massive aircraft carriers and battleships dominated the headlines, a different kind of naval warfare was fought in the shadows—one of speed, stealth, and surprise. Armed with torpedoes and machine guns, the small but deadly PT boats waged a relentless fight against Japanese convoys, warships, and outposts, proving that size wasn’t everything in naval combat.

Mark Stille, a naval historian and author of PT Boats vs IJN Destroyer, is joining me for this episode. We’ll be exploring the role of these fast attack boats in the Pacific, their successes and challenges, and how they squared off against the Imperial Japanese Navy’s formidable destroyers.

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0:51.7	In the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean was a battleground unlike any other during the Second World War,
0:58.9	while massive aircraft carriers and battleships dominated the headlines,
1:03.3	a different kind of naval warfare was fought in the shadows, one of speed, stealth and surprise.
1:10.0	Armed with torpedoes and machine guns,
1:12.5	the small but deadly PT boats waged a relentless fight
1:16.2	against Japanese convoys, warships and outposts,
1:21.0	proving that size wasn't everything in naval combat.
1:25.2	I'm Angus Wallace and this is the World War II podcast. So joining me
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