323 - Devastation in Asia: WW2 (Part 2 of 2)

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 185 minutes

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Summary

The Pacific War may have been even more brutal than the War in Europe. Imperial Japan had a ferocious fighting force, they despised their enemies unlike even the Nazis, and they arguably tormented locals unlike any conquering army in modern history. Today we examine how Imperial Japan rose to power, how their attack on Pearl Harbor was decades in the making, and how the Allies defeated them.

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0:00.0	A bright light filled the plane.
0:02.2	The first shockwave hit us.
0:03.9	We were 11 and a half miles slant range
0:06.0	from the atomic explosion,
0:07.2	but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast.
0:10.6	We turned back to look at Hiroshima.
0:12.6	The city was hidden by that awful cloud,
0:14.7	mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall.
0:18.2	That was Colonel Paul Tibbets,
0:19.5	the pilot of B29 and Nolige.
0:22.0	Riding about the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
0:24.6	on August 6th, 1945.
0:27.2	It was an action that would kill an estimated
0:28.6	80,000 people immediately.
0:30.8	Tens of thousands more would die later,
0:32.6	though surprisingly, not the deadliest bombing campaign
0:35.4	during the Pacific War.
0:37.0	It was an action that just a couple years before
0:39.2	many would have thought impossible.
0:40.9	Impossible because atomic power had only recently
0:43.1	been explored by the Manhattan Project.
0:45.2	Impossible because no war had ever gotten to this point
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