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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• 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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