166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick

166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball...

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198: The Pacific Tide Turns at Coral Sea & Midway

“It was almost unbelievable, but I was seeing it. Almost simultaneously, three [Japanese] carriers were wiped out. I knew what it meant. By golly, we did it!” This is the story of a battle that changed how wars are fought at sea—and of the thin margin between disaster and destiny ...  Show more

197: The Doolittle Raid & the Bataan Death March (Spring 1942)

“We had been promised relief but none was coming, and all of us in Bataan shared a sense of betrayal.” This is the story of the United State’s earliest—and most disastrous—days of war in the Pacific. Almost immediately following Pearl Harbor, America and the Axis powers exchange ...  Show more

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