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Hello and welcome to another World War II

podcast. I'm Angus Wallace.

We're looking at amphibious operations during the war in this episode.

Until I started researching, I hadn't realized how many there were. We're all very familiar with a handful in the European theatre, but in the

Pacific the list is very long. And in many cases the men taking part will be veterans of numerous assault landings.

In this episode I'm talking to Mike Walling.

Mike is the author of Blood Stained Sands, US Amphibious Operations in World War II.

He is a veteran of the US Navy Coast Guard and has spent the last 40 years

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