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Our American Stories

America's Comeback: The Battle of Midway

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6816 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, Anne Claire tells the story of the Battle of Midway, America's "make or break" moment in World War II.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:34.7

You're a podcast.

0:44.6

The or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, and we love to tell stories about everything

0:50.6

in one of our favorite subjects, American history.

0:56.8

Up next, a story about one of the most important battles of the 20th century. On December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked

1:03.3

by Japanese forces, and our Pacific fleet, it was nearly wiped out. We entered World War II

1:09.5

down and out and looking for a major victory.

1:12.6

That victory would come at Midway, a small island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

1:18.6

Here's writer Anne Claire to tell the story of this major battle.

1:23.6

The tiny 2.4 square mile Midway Atoll was annexed by the U.S. in 1867.

1:33.3

The descriptively, if not really imaginatively, named eastern and sand islands in the atoll weren't inhabited, and they weren't useful for resources, but their allure lay in their strategic location.

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