46. The Battle of Midway

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

At the start of June, 1942, the Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. A week later US forces had won a decisive battle that would change the course of the war.

Leading US historian Craig Symonds tells James Holland why the Battle of Midway was so decisive and describes the key characters and action.

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0:41.2	I am sitting in the Sheraton Hotel at Chartergall Airport, just on the edge of Paris with Professor Craig Simon.
0:49.4	And that's very exciting because I'm a big fan, Craig.
0:51.8	Yeah, I'm a great.
0:53.0	And I've read several of your books.
0:55.9	And the one I'm particularly keen to talk to you about is Midway.
0:59.8	Right.
1:00.3	Because it's this big, pivotal battle that really tons the tide, I think, in the Pacific.
1:06.6	It's, you know, in a way, in an English audience, I think the one way to understand this, it's the American Trafalgar.
1:12.2	Right.
1:13.0	Right. I mean, because the enemy fleet was annihilated in a spectacular confrontation that was dramatically unexpected.
1:20.4	In fact, if you put together the elements of this battle for a piece of fiction or for a movie.
1:25.4	Right.
1:25.9	No one would be willing to come up.
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