WW2: Naval Power

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🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In accounts of the Second World War, the role Navy's played is often overlooked. But the Navy's of both the Allied and Axis forces engaged in some of the biggest maritime campaigns in history. From near total elimination of forces, to epic sea battles, the Second World War changed seafaring conflict and naval power forever. So what can we learn about this period in history, and what are some of the stand out moments?

In this episode, James joined renowned military historian Paul Kennedy at Yale University, to dive into this moment of history. Together, they explore the history of the Royal Navy and the other naval powers of WW2; examining their ferocious maritime campaigns and answering the question, how were the Allies were finally able to achieve victory at sea?

Paul's book Victory at Sea is available here.

The Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie

The Assistant Producer was Annie Coloe

Mixed & edited by Aidan Lonergan

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James
0:04.6	Patterson Rogers and I'm on the move again this week I am in Sydney Australia
0:09.7	recording episodes on Australia and the Vietnam War.
0:13.6	So keep your ears open for those in the coming weeks,
0:16.9	but this episode is with a legend of military history.
0:20.7	Professor Paul Kennedy. He was my former head of Institute over at Yale University,
0:26.7	so I went and visited him a few months ago to talk about his new book on the history of the Royal Navy and Victory at Sea.
0:35.6	Enjoy.
0:36.6	Hi Paul, welcome to the Warfare Podcast. How you doing?
0:45.6	I'm really fine, thank you and thanks for allowing me to do this with you, James.
0:50.2	Not a problem at all. Thanks for inviting me back into Hill House here at Yale. A place with a
0:57.3	prestigious pedigree of history but also naval history as well and the perfect place to be talking about this topic today.
1:04.4	So maybe you can take us back to the 1930s and the dawn of the Second World War.
1:10.3	Just how powerful was the Royal Navy during the 1930s and at that point in 1939 when the war began.
1:17.1	9030s must be for people who don't understand it.
1:21.5	Very curious and more than distant just so totally different
1:25.9	the first world war had
1:28.4	caused everybody in the west and in the democracies not to want war again but nonetheless the democracies
1:35.5	that is the United States Britain and France had kept up some degree of
1:41.4	naval building and certainly large navies.
1:44.0	Musling is, Italy had built a spectacular navy,
1:47.0	the Japanese were building a big, big navy,
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