THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY: THE TURNING POINT OF WWII, AND THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED NAVAL WARFARE FOREVER #WWII #Navy #Enterprise #Midway

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Jon Hagadorn

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🗓️ 18 April 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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This episode is dedicated to all the courageous soldiers and sailors who gave their lives for freedom. (#THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY) #WWII #Navy #Enterprise #Yorktown #History #Midway By May of 1942 Germany had occupied Europe and was attempting to bomb England into submission. Japan had attacked the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor just months before and had sacked the Phillipines , brutally killing over 10,000 surrendered soldiers and civilians. With half of the United States fleet damaged or sunk, Japan controlled the Pacific. Knowing that the US needed to keep a base at the tiny island of Midway, Yamamoto made plans to attack it, knowing the weakened US Fleet would have to respond, and in so doing, Yamamoto, with many more ships and superior aircraft, would destroy them. But Admiral Nimitz, planning the American response, had his own surprise planned for Yamamoto. Before 1942, naval warfare was fought by battleships and submarines. The Coral Sea and Midway battles, pitting carrier fleet against carrier fleet, proved beyond the shadow of doubt the power, range, and effectiveness of the aircraft carrier, and changed naval warfare and warfare forever. Get Your Copy of Never Call Me A Hero at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Call-Hero-Legendary-Dive-Bomber/dp/0062692054/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497624969&sr=8-1&keywords=never+call+me+a+hero Sources: Point Luck (video), US Navy. Public Domain. Voices Used:Cmdr. William Roy (USS Yorktown), EMC3 Gordon Skinner (USS Yorktown), Rear Admiral Donald Mac Showers (HYPO), Rear Admiral Lewis Hopkins (USS Enterprise) Ret., Capt. Norman (Dusty ) Kleiss, (USS Enterprise), (ret.), Capt Stanford Linzy (USS Yorktown). Sources: Parshall, Jonathan; Tully, Anthony (2005). Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books. ISBN 1-57488-923-0. Uses recently translated Japanese sources Ewing, Steve (2004). Thach Weave: The Life of Jimmie Thach. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-248-2. Office of Naval intelligence: http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-CN-Midway/USN-CN-Midway-13.html#our Link To Interviews> Naval Footage: Public Domain “Point Luck” https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?tab=wm#inbox/15ca19de759a6cea?projector=1 Music and Video Interviews: US Navy, Destination Point Luck, Public Domain (Interviews) Ross Bugden "No Winners" Royalty & Copyright Free Mattia Cupelli Dramatic Music Royalty and Copyright Free Orbital Music Dramatic Mix Royalty and Copyright Free Enjoy all our shows at www.1001storiespodcast.com Post Us at www.facebook.com Next WeeK: Never Call Me A Hero An interview with the authors of the new best seller "Never Call Me A Hero"- the story of Dusty Kleiss, the Enterprise pilot who helped change the tide of WWII in our favor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And finally we hear the word stand by for torpedo attack.
0:04.4	The water was very clear and the warheads on their torpedoes, on these two anyway were painted
0:11.4	bright yellow.
0:12.4	And I can see them under the water coming in and hit the ship.
0:16.0	The bomb blasted a blast.
0:18.0	The torpedo was kind of like a grumbling roar.
0:21.0	One admins said it's like a little dog shaking the right, it's just a roar, a rumble.
0:27.5	But you know the guts of your ship are being tore, how but you don't know where.
0:31.4	It's quite a sensation to get hit by a torpedo.
0:36.7	The arctine was 20,000 tons or whatever and all swear it lifted just a couple feet off
0:41.6	the straight up in the air and right back down.
0:44.8	The ship rolled up, rock, ship stemmed to stern, shook.
0:50.6	I thought we were going to go right over.
0:53.1	The hangar deck went down to the water, 26, 28 degrees and you couldn't walk on the decks.
0:59.1	Finally the commanding officer put an order over the speakers and the ship.
1:06.8	In May of 1942, only 75 years ago, the world was at war.
1:12.9	Hitler's German war machine with the help of Mussolini's Italy had conquered oil-rich
1:17.3	North Africa, steam rolled over Europe, conquering their dividing with Stalin's Russia every
1:23.1	thing in its wake and was bombing England into submission, save only for the heroic efforts
1:28.4	of the pilots of Britain's Royal Air Force.
1:31.4	To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never before in history had so many people owed so much
1:37.6	to so few.
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