Episode 393-Interview w/ James Shone: The Host of the Taiwan Through Time Podcast & Operation Harpoon

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Two Episode Special! James Shone comes on to share what Taiwan, then Formosa was going through during, but also, before the war. Then, as Rommel prepares to surround Tobruk, Churchill and the War Cabinet decide to once again, try to get supplies to Malta. What follows is more disaster and death. The dark year that is 1942 continues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast.
0:14.2	Episode 393 Interview with James Shone, the host of the Taiwan Through Time podcast.
0:21.7	Today, James joins us to discuss what was happening in Taiwan, or Formosa, as it was called
0:27.6	by the Japanese before and during World War II.
0:32.0	James' podcast, Taiwan Through Time, is a detailed account of the history of the island of Taiwan
0:38.3	from the dawn of humanity to present day.
0:42.4	James, thank you very much for being with us today.
0:45.7	Well, thank you for having me on the show.
0:47.6	Absolutely. I'm very excited that you're here because as we were talking previously and
0:51.6	we've exchanged emails, being a young lad many, many, many years ago reading James'
0:57.3	club, you know, you fall in love with the history and the culture.
1:00.9	And when I saw that your podcast had come along with the history of Taiwan or Taiwan
1:05.1	Through Time.com, I just knew that I was going to be listening to that.
1:08.8	So I'm glad you have this experience and the time and the talent to do the podcast.
1:14.5	So if I could, this is going to sound weird to start out with.
1:18.5	Can you give the listeners a night for everybody who doesn't have a map in front of them right
1:23.8	now?
1:24.8	Give us a basic idea of where Taiwan is relative to other countries.
1:29.0	Okay. So we're in Southeast Asia and we sent it on China.
1:37.2	So everyone, or most people know where China is, if you go east and slightly north, you've
1:43.7	got Japan next to Korea and if you go down southeast, you hit the Philippines.
1:51.2	And so north of the Philippines, south, west of Japan and east of China is where Taiwan
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