- 60 - Pacific War - Battles of the Galloping horse and the Sea Horse, January 10-17, 1943
Today, another chapter opens up in Guadalcanal: it is to be the final chapter of the campaign, the last American offensive, the final Japanese defeat. As we saw previously, the Japanese had approved p...
10 Jan 202331min
- 59 - Pacific War - Sanananda Campaign, January 3-10, 1943
Last time we spoke about the secretive discussions amongst the top ranking Japanese military leaders that lead to the creation of operation KE. Both the IJA and IJN were grasping at straws trying to f...
3 Jan 202336min
- 58 - Pacific War - Fall of Buna, December 27, 1942- January 3, 1943
Last time we spoke about the First Arakan Campaign. General Slim and Lt General Irwin Noel were beginning to have a budding bromance, but Noel simply wanted to see other people and it led to disaster....
2 Jan 202337min
- 57 - Pacific War - First Arakan Campaign, December 20-27, 1942
Last time we spoke about the grueling battle for Buna-Gona. The villages of Buna and Gona had been captured, but the Americans and Australians had a lot more ground to take before their job was done. ...
20 Des 202237min
- 56 - Pacific War - Mount Austen Offensive, December 13-20, 1942
Last time we spoke about the grueling fall of the villages of Buna and Gona during the Buna-Gona offensive. The Americans, Australians and Japanese had been at it for weeks in a battle of attrition fo...
13 Des 202240min
- 55 - Pacific War -Fall of Gona, December 6-13, 1942
Last time we spoke about the battle of Tassafaronga. It was a defeat, but also a major humiliation for the American navy. A American Cruiser-Destroyer group lost to an inferior destroyer-transport gro...
8 Des 202226min
- 54 - Pacific War - Battle of Tassafaronga, November 29 - December 6, 1942
Last time we spoke about the long and bloody patrol of Carlson’s raiders. Shoji and his men were in for a nasty surprise when they disappeared into the jungle for a long march back to the 17th Army, f...
29 Nov 202239min
- 53 - Pacific War - Carlson’s long and bloody patrol, November 22-29, 1942
Last time we spoke about the battle for Buna and Gona. The American and Australians forces pushed the Japanese towards the Buna-Gona area and with their backs against the wall and nowhere to retreat, ...
22 Nov 202237min
