Ep 170: Evan Mawdsley on WW2 in the Central Pacific

School of War · Jan 21, 2025 · 50m

Evan Mawdsley, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and author of Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory, joins the show to discuss the successful 1944 U.S. naval campaign through the Central Pacific in World War II.

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Times

• 01:36 Introduction

• 02:27 The Central Pacific

• 11:15 Carrier air power

• 14:31 Embracing the task force

• 20:00 Replenishment at sea

• 24:28 A campaign for airbases

• 27:56 Limiting loss

• 33:38 Spruance & Mitscher

• 38:36 Japanese defense doctrine

• 45:58 Parallels today

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