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174 - The Pacific, August 1945

The WW2 Podcast

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When the Shooting Stopped August 1945

The Germans did not have a shortage of pine nut oil. In fact they had begun manufacturing synthetic fuel before the war, I think from about 1938. Running on pine oil actually got to take off, as it were, even if it crashed. Well that's all from me for now. As Allied Commander-in-Chief I have granted a military armistice.

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