Episode 194-Interview with Sally Mott Freeman about her book: The Jersey Brothers

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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With us is Sally Mott Freeman as we discuss her book, The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home. We cover FDR's Map Room, Pearl Harbor, the Fall of the Philippines, MacArthur, Siapan, Guadalcanal and of course, the missing naval officer Barton Mott, who was captured by the Japanese after MacArthur's Retreat. The search for this young man is the core of the book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.6	Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast
1:14.4	Episode 194 and interview with Sally Mott Freeman about her new book The Jersey Brothers a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home
1:27.4	Sally Mott Freeman was a speech writer and media and public relations executive for 25 years
1:33.9	She is currently board chair of the writer center the premier independent literary center in the mid-Atlantic and also studied Renaissance literature at the University of Exeter
1:45.1	England so Mrs. Freeman. Thank you very much for being with us today
1:49.9	My great pleasure. Thank you for having me. Thank you
1:52.4	So before we jump in I don't mean to embarrass you, but I'm gonna gush a little bit
1:56.9	This was one of the best World War II books I have ever read you've got everything in there
2:03.2	Including the kitchen sink you've got you've got the harbor FDR's map room you've got the Philippines you got the Enterprise
2:10.4	You got the various naval and and air battles you've got the Japanese with their ally prisoners and their treatment and and why they treated in that way
2:19.2	I mean you've got everything in there and for someone like me who doesn't need a general
2:25.3	You know broadstroke book of World War II. I absolutely enjoy this and the emotional connection
2:31.3	That you that you make with by using the family your family
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