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Episode 534: The Manhattan Project Part II - A Numbers Game

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The Importance of Unconditional Surrender in the Pacific Front

By 1944, US forces on the Pacific Front were making serious headway and taking and holding the small islands leading to Japan. President Roosevelt was starting to use stronger language when discussing the Axis power. Saipan was taken first in a horrifically bloody battle that resulted in the loss of 3,000 Americans and tens of thousands of Japanese. Dan Carlin, supernova in the East really does talk about it's incredible build up extremely heavy, heavy details all from the Japanese perspective.

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