US military leaders, disappointed by the slow slog in the Southwest Pacific, try a new strategy of hopping small islands in the Central Pacific.
YouTube will not allow embedding of the Marine Corps documentary With the Marines at Tarawa, but you can watch the film on the YouTube site by clicking on the image above.
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Fanfare
Opening War Theme
String Quartet No. 19 in C major “Dissonant.”
Composed in 1785 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Public domain.
Public domain recording. Source.
Closing War Theme
Except when otherwise indicated, the contents of this podcast are © and ℗ 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 by Mark Painter, all rights reserved. Some music and sound effects used by arrangement with Pond 5.
Congratulations on the 10th anniversary. In fact, you started just a couple of months after Talking Simpsons did, and that’s another favorite podcast of mine.