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Pearl Harbor episode 3: Countdown to the raid
Pearl Harbor episode 3: Countdown to the raid
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Dec 7, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
In the latest episode in our new series on the raid on Pearl Harbor, Steve Twomey speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about the immediate run-up to the attack, revealing how inch-perfect Japanese planning and complacent oversights by American military figures combined to leave Pearl Harbor naval base a sitting duck for Japanese bombers.
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Released:
Dec 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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