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Hello everyone and welcome to another history of the Second World War interview.

This time I was joined by Mark Stilly, the author of Midway, the Pacific War's most famous battle.

This is the second time Mark has appeared on the podcast.

I interviewed him last year for his book, Lategolf, a new history of the world's largest sea battle.

And this time, we're here to talk about Midway, in which Mark wants to shed some light on one of the world's largest sea battle, and this time we're here to talk about Midway,

in which Mark wants to shed some light on one of the most famous battles of the Pacific War,

maybe one of the most famous naval battles of all time, of the Battle of Midway.

Without further ado, let's jump into the interview.

Okay. Let's jump into the interview. So the Battle of Midway took place about six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

But even in that short time, the two navies and the overall situation in the Pacific was changing pretty rapidly.

Could you talk a bit about how both navies had spent those six months?

Yeah, I sure will, Wesleyan. Thank you for having me back to talk about Midway.

I know people are usually quite interested in that battle.

So like you say, it was a busy six months between Pearl Harbor and Midway.

As far as the Japanese were concerned, Pearl Harbor wasn't their main effort. It was actually an effort to secure the resource areas of Southeast Asia.

So they sent most of the combined fleet to do just that.

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