The Ace Race Over New Guinea 1943-44 with special guest John Bruning

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth and Bill welcome first time guest, author and historian John Bruning to the show to discuss the ace race of New Guinea in 1943. The trio unpacks the stories of General George Kenney, the birth of his 5th Air Force, as well as Richard Bong and Tommy Maguire and their quest to become America's Ace of Aces.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 215 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:17.4	My name is Seth Parrottan, historian and deputy director here at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby. And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy
0:24.6	Captain Bill Tody, former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine, USS, Indianapolis, Commodore
0:28.9	Submarine Squad and 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many other postings. How are you this fine morning
0:33.1	bill? I'm doing great, Seth. My home office, home studios coming together. I think this is the first
0:40.2	episode we recorded with my stuff hanging on the wall behind me, rather than the green screen
0:45.4	with my submarine displayed on the green screen. Be interested to learn whether people think
0:51.2	like this better or the green screen better, but I got to tell you, after 26 years in the Navy, I got more stuff than I have wall.
0:59.5	So I've got a bunch of other things still sitting on the floor over there that I don't know where to hang.
1:04.8	But long-winded answer to your question today, Seth.
1:08.0	No, stuff is cool.
1:09.3	Stuff is very cool.
1:10.6	I think the stuff is cool i i personally
1:13.1	like stuff um for those who are watching it's very obvious that we have a another guest with us
1:19.9	today uh this week we are happy to welcome a new guest to our program this gentleman is the writer
1:24.7	or collaborator on over 20 non-fiction books.
1:29.0	He is a New York Times bestseller.
1:39.7	He was awarded the DoD's Thomas Jefferson Award for Best Article in 2010, and he spent some time in my hometown back in 2005 when we had a little thunderstorm come through there called Katrina.
1:46.0	More pertinent to this show, however, he is the author of the absolutely fantastic book that we've mentioned before, and we're going to talk about heavily today, Race of Aces, World War II's elite airmen and the epic battle to become the master of the sky,
1:53.0	which of course is about the air war over New Guinea and the Philippines.
1:57.0	Please welcome John Bruning. John, how are you today?
2:00.0	I am great. It's really a pleasure to be
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