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The hell of the Pacific War

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Pacific campaign featured some of the most brutal battles of the Second World War – Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Okinawa among them. Here, in conversation with Spencer Mizen, Saul David explores the pitiless struggle to wrest back control of the Pacific from the highly motivated soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army, via eyewitness accounts of the men of K Company, from the third battalion of the US fifth Marines, who were thrust into one of the cruellest arenas of the conflict. (Ad) Saul David is the author of Devil Dogs: First in, Last out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan (HarperCollins, 2022). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://fortnum-and-mason.7eer.net/c/1236178/230388/3957?subId1=historyextra-social-histboty&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fdevil-dogs%2Fsaul-david%2F9780008395766 Subscribe to BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed this season and receive a book of your choice worth up to £30* at https://www.buysubscriptions.com/subscribe2022 Listeners from outside the UK can also subscribe *Book promotion only available for UK residents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know. I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. And remember, it's just between us. Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming. I, uh. So, Benny has really blossomed this term. You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay. Oh, that's not quite what I meant. It's free to sell on there. Free to sell? Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket. You sold my guitar? Shall we talk about Benny? When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say you on it's eBay.

0:56.8

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1:02.4

Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

1:05.8

Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History revealed.

1:20.0

The Pacific campaign featured some of the most brutal battles of the Second World War,

1:26.6

Guadacanal, Iwojima and Okinawa among them.

1:31.1

In his new book, Devil Dogs, Saul David tells the story of this campaign via eyewitness accounts

1:38.0

of the men of K-company of the 3rd Battalion of the US 5th Marines.

1:43.7

Here in conversation with Spencer Mizzin,

1:46.5

Saul explores the pitiless struggle to rest back control of the Pacific

1:50.7

from the highly motivated soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army

1:55.3

and examines how the Men of K Company,

1:58.5

largely raw recruits drawn from very different backgrounds,

2:02.1

coped with being thrust into one of the cruelest arenas of the conflict.

2:07.5

So, so can you start by introducing us to the devil dogs, the men who inspired the title

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