The Air War Over China 1937-40 with Justin Pyke - Episode 514

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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This week Seth Paridon and Jon Parshall welcome a new guest to talk about the air war over China. Justin Pyke joins us and delivers a masterful performance talking about an oft-forgotten aspect of the war in China. We always talk about nerding out--well here you go guys. We get into everything from the first deployment of the G3M, to the P-36 Hawk over Chgina, Japanese strategic bombing, IJN ground support for IJA operations and everything in between. #wwiihistory #wwiihistory #ww2 #usnavy #usa #usarmy #medalofhonor #enterprise #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #cv6 #midway #wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #worldwar2 #usnavy #usnavyseals #usmc #usmarines #saipan #usa #usarmy #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #battleship #battleships #ussenterprise #aircraftcarriers #museum #essex #halsey #taskforce38 #wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #usnavy #usa #usarmy #medalofhonor #enterprise #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #cv6 #midway #wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #worldwar2 #usnavy #usnavyseals #usmc #usmarines #saipan #usa #usarmy #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #battleship #battleships #ussenterprise #aircraftcarriers #museum #hollywood #movie #movies #books #mastersoftheair #8thairforce #mightyeighth #100thbombgroup #bloodyhundredth #b17 #boeing #airforce wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #usnavy #usa #usarmy #medalofhonor #enterprise #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #cv6 #midway #wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #worldwar2 #usnavy #usnavyseals #usmc #usmarines #saipan #usa #usarmy #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #battleship #battleships #ussenterprise #aircraftcarriers #museum #hollywood #movie #movies #books #oldbreed #1stMarineDivision #thepacific #Peleliu #army #marines #marinecorps #worldwar2 #worldwar #worldwarii #leytegulf #battleofleytegulf #rodserling #twilightzone #liberation #blacksheep #power #prisoner #prisonerofwar #typhoon #hurricane #weather #iwojima#bullhalsey #ace #p47 #p38 #fighter #fighterpilot #b29 #strategicstudying #tokyo #boeing #incendiary #usa #franklin #okinawa #yamato #kamikaze #Q&A #questions #questionsandanswers #history #jaws #atomicbomb #nuclear #nationalarchives #nara #johnford #hollywood #fdr #president #roosevelt #doolittle #doolittleraid #pearlharborattack

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The Hello and welcome to episode 514 of the unauthorized history of Pacific War podcast.
0:47.7	My name is Seth Periden, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum
0:52.6	with me as always is my co-host,
0:55.1	fantastic historian and good buddy, John Parshall. How are you today? John?
0:58.6	I'm doing great. Lovely to be here.
1:01.7	We have a new guest with us today. As you're watching, you can clearly tell,
1:06.2	and most of you probably already know who he is, but I'm going to let John do the introduction there.
1:10.9	Yes, Justin Pike has done a lot of work with Christoph Berg out on his military aviation
1:18.6	history channel, a really good YouTube channel. I would highly recommend anybody who's
1:23.8	not familiar with them to go and check them out. And it was actually a viewer of both this channel and that channel that turned me on to Justin.
1:32.8	And was like, you know this guy?
1:34.0	I'm like, no, man, no.
1:35.2	I went out and watched him.
1:36.2	I'm like, whoa, who is this guy?
1:38.6	So we're delighted to have Justin with us today to explore the China Air War, which is an oft-neglected topic within the
1:49.3	broader Asia-Pacific war. And yes, we're just going to kind of go through a brief overview
1:55.4	in the way that we do it, right? An hour and a half or something like that, talking about the events from
2:02.0	1937 into 1941. Yeah. And to that end, I'll read our brief little pithy intro that we have here.
2:12.2	So, you know, as John was saying earlier this season, you know, we've covered a lot of the war in China.
2:16.7	Obviously not all of it, but some of the, most of the very high points, you know, going back covered a lot of the war in China. Obviously, not all of it,
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