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Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

CAPT Zeke Zellmer: Submarine Warfare

Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

Robert Kirk

History

4.6675 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Captain Zeke Zellmer served as a Communications Officer aboard the USS Cavalla during World War II. He fought in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the largest carrier-to-carrier battle in history, and helped destroy a Japanese aircraft carrier called the Shokaku. Thanks in large part to the contribution of the USS Cavalla, the Japanese lost the battle, and their navy never recovered.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.7

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0:35.9

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1:00.5

I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of Warriors in their own words. In partnership with the Honor Project, we've brought this podcast back at a time when our nation needs these stories more than ever.

1:08.8

Warriors in their own words is our attempt to present an unvarnished, unsanitized truth of what we have asked of those who defend this nation.

1:13.0

Thank you for listening, and by doing so honoring those who have served.

1:17.0

Today, we'll hear from Captain Zeke Zellmer.

1:22.3

Zellmer served as a communications officer aboard the USS Cavalla during World War II and fought in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the largest carrier-to-carrier battle in history. During the battle,

1:28.8

the Cavalla destroyed one of Japan's two main aircraft carriers, the Shokaku.

1:33.3

In 1939, I was in engineering school at the University of Wisconsin Extension in Milwaukee,

1:43.3

and studying to be an electrical engineer.

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