G12: The Final Offensive and Operation KE

Key Battles of American History

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In January 1943, American forces began slowly but surely pushing west as the Japanese mounted an effort to deceive the Americans into thinking another major offensive was coming. In reality, the Japanese were executing Operation KE, a plan to retreat...

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0:00.0	War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding
0:10.8	right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its
0:16.5	size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.
0:24.0	Welcome to Key Battles of American History,
0:26.8	a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.
0:32.8	Here is your host, James Early.
0:43.5	Music your host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to Guadalcanal, Air, Land, and Sea, our 2,000-foot survey of the epic Guadalcanal
0:49.6	campaign of the Pacific Theater of World War II.
0:52.4	I'm your host, James Early, as always, and I am joined by my co-host,
0:57.5	Dave Hollad, as always. Well, in our last episode, we saw that the Americans turned up the heat
1:03.8	on the ground, so to speak. They launched another offensive on the Matanacal River, and then we had a
1:09.9	sea battle called the Battle of Tessa Feronga, which was a
1:12.8	Japanese victory of an embarrassing defeat for the Americans. And then we saw that there was more
1:18.5	efforts to resupply. The Japanese are continuing to try to get supplies to their men so they don't
1:24.1	starve to death so that they have ammunition and all the things that the land army needs the americans brought in some guys and took out some other guys and then we talked about
1:33.1	the battle of the gifu which is a major offensive that the allies launched on a very strongly
1:38.2	fortified japanese position we kind of left them there they didn't really finish the job so we're
1:43.4	going to see tonight or today rather it depends on really finish the job. So we're going to see tonight or today, rather, it depends on when you're listening to this.
1:47.7	We're going to see if the Americans are able to reduce that position.
1:52.3	And we've ended the episode last time with the so-called December decision.
1:56.8	The Japanese made the fateful decision not to try to attack any more in Guadalcanal,
2:02.3	not even try to hold their position, but to get the heck out of Dodge.
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