ANGELS AGAINST THE SUN- THE TRUE STORY OF THE 11TH AIRBORNE 'S BATTLE TO FREE THE PHILIPPINES
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Author James M. Fenelon shares his new book Angels Against The Sun, the story of the 11th Airborne's battle to remove the Japanese from the Philippines and Manila- a riveting account of extraordinarily courageous American airborne troops in some of the toughest fighting of WWII.
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| 0:00.0 | . |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome back everyone the one thousand one heroes legends histories and |
| 0:35.3 | mysteries podcast. This is your host John Hagadorn and our interview today with |
| 0:40.6 | James M. Fennellan author of the new book Angels Against the Sun. The story of |
| 0:46.4 | the 11th Airborne Division sometimes called the forgotten paratroopers of World |
| 0:50.6 | War II. The men who slugged it out with the Japanese in the dense Philippine |
| 0:55.1 | jungles, basing the combined enemies of fanatical Japanese, monsoons, swamps, mud, |
| 1:01.3 | privation and disease to name a few to free the Philippines and the capital of |
| 1:06.8 | Manila where they fought from house to house in Manila to liberate that |
| 1:10.5 | captive city and its people. James M. Fennellan is a paratrooper turned |
| 1:15.5 | historian and here he gives us a grunt's eye view of one of the toughest |
| 1:19.6 | paratrooper divisions in history the 11th Airborne. Angels against the Sun |
| 1:24.5 | has received many great reviews and I want to share one by author James M. Scott |
| 1:29.4 | author of black snow and rampage and that review reads General Douglas MacArthur |
| 1:35.7 | driven from the Philippines at the start of World War II famously vowed to |
| 1:40.0 | return and James M. Fennellan has captured that epic slugfest in magnificent |
| 1:45.3 | detail in his extraordinary new book Angels Against the Sun. Fennellan drops |
| 1:50.8 | readers into the heart of the fight in a story filled with bonsai charges, |
| 1:54.8 | jungle warfare and the block by block battle to retake Manila the former |
| 1:59.7 | pearl of the Orient. His laser focus on the story of the 11th Airborne Division |
| 2:04.4 | illuminates the commanders and the grunts who battle not only a |
| 2:08.3 | fanatical enemy but also the sweltering tropical landscape, insects and |
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