54 History of Everything: The Last Stand of The Tin Can Sailors

History of Everything

History, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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The nonfiction book The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour is the first full narrative account of the Battle off Samar, which the book's author, James D. Hornfischer, calls the greatest upset in the history of naval warfare. Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on Patreon. Find us on Instagram. Join us on Discord. Submit your relatives on our website Join the Book Club on http://chirpbooks.com/history Get some delicious COFFEE Podcast Youtube Channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.4	Welcome back everyone to what is once again here towards the end of the month.
0:45.0	The Cherf Audio Books Book Club Pick, which for this month is going to be the last stand of the tin can sailors.
0:52.8	Which, honestly, do you have no idea how many times
0:55.5	people have suggested from like YouTube video comments, in TikTok comments, in everything that
1:00.3	like we need to tell this story. And it is a fun story. It is a good story. But in my personal
1:05.6	opinion, I was never satisfied with the short videos of it. Like when I would make the, uh, when I would make the short form videos for it on TikTok or YouTube shorts or anything like that,
1:16.0	there's just so much detail that goes into this battle.
1:20.3	But it's not even really a battle.
1:21.6	It's a segment of a battle that became its own battle that had not necessarily as big of an effect on the wide scheme of the war,
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