by WWIIPodcast | Aug 19, 2019 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWith the Gin Drinker’s Line pierced, Gen. Maltby pulls back his men to Hong Kong Island. The Japanese will ask the Commonwealth forces to surrender, but Gov. Young and Maltby give a one word answer, no. Now Gen. Sakai...
by WWIIPodcast | Aug 11, 2019 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadAs the Japanese military has been able to take the port cities of China by 1941, the British held Hong Kong is still free. But now its turn has come and Gen. Christopher Maltby and his mix of Canadian, British, Indian and...
by WWIIPodcast | Jul 25, 2019 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadLondon had decided that Hong Kong was to be sacrificed to the Japanese, but after Canada offered up two battalions, Churchill reversed this decision. Now, the hope was that the British Colony would hold out behind the Gin...
by WWIIPodcast | Jul 2, 2019 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe marines on Wake Island are holding out, due to discipline and Japanese tactical mistakes. Yet Maj. Devereux is unaware of this and thus brings to fighting to an end. Yet the Japanese atrocities are only just beginning, against...
by WWIIPodcast | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWake Island becomes the focal point of US resistance to Japanese aggression. Adm. Kimmel will send a relief force to Wake, but will it get there in time. Meanwhile, Rear Adm. Kajioka of the Imperial Japanese Navy, in command of...
by WWIIPodcast | Jun 18, 2019 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe Marines on Wake Island are down to four Wildcat fighters, but are determined to resist any Japanese invasion, no matter the odds. “Hammering Hank” and Maj. Putnam and their pilots score hit after hit, but the...
