Martin Dugard: Taking Midway 05/03/2025

Saturday Morning Magazine with Bruce Ferrell · May 3, 2025 · 6m

In this dramatic account, Taking Midway, Martin Dugard (coauthor with Bill O’Reilly of the Killing series) narrates the events leading up to the June 1942 battle for a remote Pacific Island that became a major turning point of WWII. After Japan’s December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. was pushed relentlessly back across the Pacific by a superior Japanese navy, which seized Singapore and then the Philippines. The U.S. naval base on Midway, located 1,200 miles from the nearest other port, was critical as a waypoint and refueling station, but U.S. naval intelligence believed that Japan’s…