Echoes of War (Formerly The Pacific War Channel Podcast)

Pacific War Podcast 🎙️ Canada’s role in the Pacific War with Brad St.Croix

This Pacific War Podcast covers Canada's participation during the Pacific War (WW2) featuring  @OTDMilitaryHistory 

The Battle of Hong Kong was fought from December 8-25th of 1941 and is one of the first battles of the Pacific War. The Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong without declaring war against Britain. The Hong Kong garrison consisted of British, Indian, Chinese and Canadian units. Brad St.Croix helps explain why the battle occurred, what occurred during the battle, what occurred after the battle and what was the Canadian experience.

The Aleutian Islands campaign saw Canada enter the fray during the Battle of Kiska. Operation Cottage saw the invasion of Kiska by a combined American/Canadian force, but there was not Japanese to be found. The Japanese had miraculous evacuated the island without the allies knowing, thus when they came to invade all they found were booby traps.

Canada like the United States interned Japanese during WW2. Japanese-Canadians like the famous scientist David Sazuki underwent years of internment making for a dark period of Canadian history. Many of the interned Japanese-Canadians would leave Canada or emigrate east to places like Toronto after the war was over.

The HMCS Uganda was a Canadian ship that served in the Pacific, until they took a vote and the crew elected to not participate any longer. Called a "mutiny" it was a rather embarrassing moment for Canada. Lastly Canada was going to be part of Operation Downfall, as part of the sub operation Cornet. But the war ended before the invasion of the Japanese home islands could occur.

Dr. Brad St.Croix has a PhD in history and did his dissertation on the Battle of Hong Kong. He studies and creates videos with a strong emphasis on Canadian military history.

Pacific War Podcast 🎙️ The Battle of Hong Kong with Brad St.Croix

This Pacific War Podcast is a full rundown of the Battle of Hong Kong that occurred during the Pacific War (WW2)

The Battle of Hong Kong was fought from December 8-25th of 1941 and is one of the first battles of the Pacific War. The Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong without declaring war against Britain. The Hong Kong garrison consisted of British, Indian, Chinese and Canadian units. Brad St.Croix helps explain why the battle occurred, what occurred during the battle, what occurred after the battle and what was the Canadian experience.

The Canadian Army (C Forec) consisted of a battalion of the Royal Rifles of Canada (From Quebec) and one from the Winnipeg Grenadiers (From Manitoba) alongside a brigade headquarters. When Hong Kong fell on December 25th of 1941, infamously known as Black Christmas, the surviving allied garrison units became POW's. The POW's faces years of brutality and many perished as a result.

The Battle of Hong Kong saw multiple cases of war crimes, atrocities such as the St Stephen's College Massacre and many myths were perpetuated about the battle overall. Brad St.Crois goes into depth about why these myths persist and why documentaries such as "The Valour and the Horror " don't do the real history justice.

Dr. Brad St.Croix has a PhD in history and did his dissertation on the Battle of Hong Kong. He studies and creates videos with a strong emphasis on Canadian military history. Please check out Brad St.Croix's Youtube Channel  @OTDMilitaryHistory  and also find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/OTDCanMilHis

Pacific War Podcast 🎙️The Firebombing of Japan with Dave from the Cold War Channel

This Podcast covers the firebombing campaign against Japan during the Pacific War and how it evolved during the Cold War

 

What was the firebombing campaign against the Japanese home islands during the Pacific War? When did the firebombing start, how did it end? How effective was the firebombing campaign versus other strategies adopting by the allies such as sea mining, targeting of Japan's merchant shipping, the USSR's invasion of Manchuria and the two atomic bomb attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki? What was the rationale of firebombing the Japanese home islands? Was it morally right to do? Who was Curtis LeMay and how did he take what he learnt during the War in Europe and Pacific War onwards into the Cold War? How did firebombing become strategic bombing post WW2?

In this podcast we are talking with Dave of  @TheColdWarTV  channel. The Pacific War and Cold War share a lot of similarities and in many ways can be seen as an extension of another. The Pacific War ushering in the atomic age of the Cold War and there are many who argue the first shots of the Cold War were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Pacific War Podcast 🎙️Guadalcanal Medal of Honor’s with Dave Holland

In this Podcast, Dave Holland from Guadalcanal Walking a Battlefield goes over many of the Medals of Honor earned during the Guadalcanal campaign. We talk about: Merritt Edson, Kenneth Bailey, Douglas Munro, John Basilone, Mitchell Paige, Anthony Casamento, Charles Davis, William Fournier and Lewis Hall. 

 

Dave Holland is a former US Marine and has worked on Guadalcanal for a few years giving tours of the battlefields. He has found countless artifacts from the battalion and has pin pointed many locations where Medals of Honor were earned. 

Please check out his Youtube Channel: Guadalcanal Walking a Battlefield to see some exciting videos on him walking the very grounds where some of the most brutal fighting of the Pacific War occurred! 

Pacific War Podcast 🎙️ The May Fourth Movement of 1919 + Discussion

This Pacific War Podcast is about the May Fourth Movement of 1919, one of the most significant events in modern Chinese history

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss the May Fourth Movement of 1919. The May Fourth Movement was the Chinese public's response to their governments weak response to the Treaty of Versailles and Shandong problem.

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss how China was undergoing the century of humiliation at the hands of the western powers and Empire of Japan. Students began to protest the government demanding reforms. This led to the "new cultural movement" and "may fourth movement".

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss how the May Fourth Movement marked a turning point in Chinese History. The public sought to replace traditional Confucian values and modernize China. The idea's put forward by the movement shaped China into what it is today.

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss how the May Fourth Movement led to the birth of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the resurrection of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Warlord Era.

➡️ The Pacific War Podcast features Craig & Justin

Pacific War Podcast 🎙️ Why is the War in Europe More Popular than the Pacific War?

This Pacific War Podcast asks why the War in Europe (WW2) is more popular than the Pacific War?

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss 10 major reasons why the war in Europe is more popular than the Pacific War. There are countless reasons as to why WW2 in Europe seems to overshadow the Pacific War. The War in Europe had more actors and history in general has always been dominated by eurocentrism.

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss how the terrible brutality of the Pacific War made it difficult to talk about. This brutality was not limited to the combat, but also the disease and starvation felt which led many veterans to not want to talk about the Pacific War. Japanese in general prefer to forget about the event and tend to simply not talk about it.

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast goes into the morality question about the Pacific War vs the war in Europe, the Pacific War after all was an" ugly war". We also talk about how the Pacific War was a Race War. The geography of the Pacific War was confusing and the Europe First Strategy had influence on the publics view of it. Lastly we talk about how the Pacific War reminds many of countless failures.

➡️ The Pacific War Podcast features Craig & Ian

Pacific War Podcast 🎙️ The Hilarious world of the Man in the High Castle

This Pacific War Podcast is about the hilarious world of Man in the high castle

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss the how the Axis powers won WW2 in the world of the man in the high castle, the hilarious and silly world of man in the high castle TV series and the novel by Philip K Dick and the meaning behind the novel itself.

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss the key divergent points in the alternate history behind the story of the man in the high castle, what were the most significant historical turning points that created this world. How does this world mirror our own, what about the "other" world inside the man in the high castle, "the grasshopper lies heavy"?

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast compares the man in the high castle TV series with the novel written by Philip K Dick. What are the major differences? What themes remain the same, how does the man in the high castle relate to other novels by Philip K Dick, such as do Androids dream about Electric sheep?

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast will lastly discuss the meaning behind the man in the high castle, its themes, influences and what Philip K Dick was trying to show the reader.

➡️ The Pacific War Podcast features Craig & Eric

Pacific War Podcast 🎙️ Ukraine and Korea’s fight for independence 🇺🇦 #ProjectUkraine

This podcast explores how Ukraine and Korea both struggled to exist under the USSR and Empire of Japan as part of #ProjectUkraine

➡️ This podcast explains the tumultuous history of Ukraine during 1917-1923 when the War of Ukrainian Independence occurred. The new Soviet Union, White Russian Army, Poland and Germany all fought to take control over Ukraine. The Central Rada in Kyiv fought a rival Bolshevik government in Kharkov, but ultimately Ukraine was forced to join the Soviet Union as the SSR.

➡️ This podcast explains the tumultuous history of Korea during 1870-1910 when the powers of the Russian Empire, Qing Dynasty and Empire of Japan fought to control the nation. This led to the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and ultimately the annexation of Korea in 1910.

➡️ This podcast explains the tragic history of Ukraine during 1923-1941 whereupon initial Ukrainization under the Korenizatsiya gradually became Russification under Joseph Stalin. Stalin forced collectivization upon Ukraine, leading to the terrible Holodomor and an attempt to destroy Ukrainian culture, language, identity and its existence as a state.

➡️ This podcast explains the tragic history of Korea during 1910-1941 whereupon the Empire of Japan colonized and exploited Korea. While the Empire of Japan promoted some Korean culture, language and education, this eventually was replaced with rigid assimilation until Korea broke free of Japan at the end of WW2.

 

➡️ To donate to the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre⤵️: https://donation.babynyar.org/en/

Pacific War Podcast 🎙️ The Invasion of Ukraine & Manchuria?

This Pacific War Podcast is about he invasion of Ukraine and how it compares to the Invasion of Manchuria in 1931

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss the various reasons as to why Putin invaded Georgia in 2008; why Putin invaded Crimea in 2014 and why Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022. We will explain how this all striking compares to how and why the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 and began the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss the geopolitics of Russia and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union. What does NATO have to do with all of this? Why is natural Gas the number one key to the entire conflict? How did the struggle for resource security leads nations like the Russian Federation and the Empire of Japan to invade Ukraine and Manchuria?

➡️ This Pacific War Podcast hopes those watching will better educate themselves on the ongoing conflict using multiple sources

➡️ We strongly support Ukraine and hope a peaceful conclusion to the conflict will come soon.

➡️ The Pacific War Podcast features Craig & Justin

Pacific War Podcast 🎙️ What if Japan won the battle of Midway?

This Pacific War Podcast asks what if Japan won the battle of Midway?

▶️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss the reasons as to why the Empire of Japan and the United States fought during the battle of Midway. What reasons led the United States to victory over the IJN? What mistakes were made by commanders like Chuichi Nagumo? Why was it such a devastating loss for japan? How much did luck play into the battle?

▶️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss what could have happened to allow the Japanese to win the battle of Midway. What if Nagumo's dilemma never came to be. What if the US code breakers never broke the Japanese codes. Could the Japanese invade the Midway Atoll? What does a victory at the battle of Midway mean?

▶️ This Pacific War Podcast will discuss what the Pacific War would look like if Japan won the battle of Midway? What happens to the WW2 timetable of events, what events are dramatically changed? Is Hawaii threatened, is Australia, India? How long will WW2 go on for, who will win and what does this mean for global history?

▶️ This Pacific War Podcast is dealing with alternate history and answering many questions presented by the fans of Kings and Generals Pacific War series.

➡️ The Pacific War Podcast features Craig & Ian