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🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast. |
0:05.4 | The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres |
0:11.9 | the forgotten stories that changed our world. |
0:15.5 | I'm your host, Scott Rank. |
0:23.2 | In early 1942, while most of the American military was in disarray from the devastating |
0:28.2 | attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single US Army Air Force squadron advanced |
0:34.6 | to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy. |
0:38.6 | Based in Australia, with poor supplies and no ground support, the pilots and crew faced |
0:43.4 | tropical diseases while confronting the numerically and technologically superior Japanese forces, |
0:49.7 | the outfit, which was dubbed the kangaroo squadron, proved remarkably resilient and successful. |
0:55.2 | They conducted long-range bombing raids, armed reconnaissance missions, and rescued General |
1:00.2 | Douglas MacArthur and his staff from the Philippines. |
1:03.6 | Today I'm talking with Bruce Gamble, author of kangaroo squadron, American Courage |
1:08.4 | on the Darkest Days of World War II. |
1:10.4 | He was inspired to write the book by his uncle, a navigator in the squadron. |
1:16.1 | A footlocker contained his military papers and other memorabilia, including a handwritten |
1:21.2 | diary with day-to-day details of his tour. |
1:24.9 | And there's all sorts of artifacts that live on from the kangaroo squadron. |
1:29.0 | On a B-17E bomber crashed into a swamp on the North Coast of Papua New Guinea in February |
1:34.6 | 1942, on the first kangaroo squadron mission, the nine member crews survived, escaped the |
1:41.1 | safety, and returned to combat after traveling five weeks over land through the jungle. |
1:48.2 | This plane, called the swamp coast, remained submerged in water and tall grass until 2006 |
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