Podcast appearances and mentions of David Farragut

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1038, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Genetics 1: "Genetics" as we use the word was coined in a 1905 letter by William Bateson, who popularized this monk's work. (Gregor) Mendel. 2: The "23" of 23andme.com, a site tracing ancestry and personal genetic information, refers to pairs of these. chromosomes. 3: Way faster than it used to be, it's the act of determining a series like ACAAGATGCC and with it your genetic blueprint. sequencing a genome. 4: This test performed between the 15th and 18th weeks of pregnancy can detect fetal genetic disorders. amniocentesis. 5: In 1986 the U.S. issued the first patent on a plant produced through genetic engineering, a hybrid of this grain. corn. Round 2. Category: Surviving Prohibition 1: Many breweries tried making this rhyming product, like Schlitz Famo, with less than .5% alcohol content. near beer. 2: Unable to brew, Pabst started making Pabst-ett, a Velveeta-like cheese; eventually this competitor sued. Kraft. 3: In 1925 this Milwaukee family couldn't sell its brewery but was living the "High Life" after Prohibition ended. Miller. 4: This brewery bought a Colorado ceramics company and sold porcelain under the brand name; the ceramics co. is worth billions today. Coors. 5: Many breweries struggled but got by selling beer ingredients like syrup made from this, sprouted barley grains. malt. Round 3. Category: Aye Aye, Captain 1: A national park on this country's South Island is named for Captain Abel Tasman. New Zealand. 2: In 1837 Captain Matthew Perry took command of the U.S. Navy's first ship powered by this. steam. 3: This New World settlement was founded May 14, 1607 by a group led by Captain Christopher Newport. Jamestown. 4: After his fleet took New Orleans in April 1862, this captain was promoted to rear admiral. David Farragut. 5: This British explorer of the Pacific Northwest has his own herb as well as an island. George Vancouver. Round 4. Category: Makeup 1: Some women dye their lashes instead of using this traditional eyelash makeup. mascara. 2: Common color of beauty patches, which were sometimes cut in silhouettes of friends or family. black. 3: As its name implies, one of these, often in stick or cream form, is used especially to cover up dark circles and blemishes. concealer. 4: Here are an array of eye shadows in one of these, like what a painter uses. a palette. 5: An alternative to foundation, BB cream can stand for beauty or blemish this soothing 4-letter word. balm. Round 5. Category: Fearful Quotes 1: According to Alexander Pope, these "rush in where angels fear to tread". fools. 2: This larger-than-life tenor said, "Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?". Pavarotti. 3: Hard to believe she was ever alone, but this Gallic sex kitten revealed, "Solitude scares me". Brigitte Bardot. 4: "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer" is an axiom used by Bene Gesserit witches in this '65 Herbert novel. Dune. 5: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear", opined this master of horror novels like "The Lurking Fear". H.P. Lovecraft. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 978, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: North And South 1: On April 14, 1865, General Robert Anderson raised the same flag he'd lowered over this port four years before. Fort Sumter. 2: On April 9, 1865, he told his troops, "I have done my best for you; my heart is too full to say more". Robert E. Lee. 3: About 75 miles due north of Liverpool is the British national park named for this watery district. the Lake District. 4: In December, 1864, the rank of vice-admiral was created for this hero of Mobile Bay. David Farragut. 5: The next country due north of Australia's northernmost point is this 3-named one. Papua New Guinea. Round 2. Category: Speak Of The Devil! 1: When I speak of the "devil", I want this chocolate dessert, and I want it now!. Devil's Food Cake. 2: This mysterious geographical area is also known as the Devil's Triangle. the Bermuda Triangle. 3: This insect is sometimes called the Devil's Horse, even though it looks like it's "praying". praying mantis. 4: It's the pro sport played by the New Jersey Devils. ice hockey. 5: Ile du Diable is the French name for this place that was once a French penal colony. Devil's Island. Round 3. Category: Reference Books 1: Latin for "treasure", it's a treasure-trove of related words for a writer to use. thesaurus. 2: Look up "goober" in the current Encyclopedia Britannica and you're referred to this entry. peanuts. 3: The Press of this university publishes "Companions to" English Lit, Art and the Theatre. Oxford. 4: "Beat the Odds", "Music Bingo" and "Fast Draw" are entries in an ency. of these by Schwartz, Ryan and Wostbrock. game shows. 5: In the preface to his 1747 dict., this British lexicographaer apologized to critics if he missed any words. Samuel Johnson. Round 4. Category: Spring Medley 1: A Polish tradition on the first day of spring is saying goodbye to a doll representing this season. winter. 2: "The Wind in the Willows" opens with Mole doing this with brooms and dusters. spring cleaning. 3: A little fun for the season; in the movie "Mean Girls" it's the rhyming name of a school dance. a spring fling. 4: From the Italian, it means "spring" or "served with veggies". primavera. 5: Spring training baseball in Florida is known as this league. the grapefruit league. Round 5. Category: A Marriage In Ruins 1: Board the Hiram Bingham train in Cuzco and have your ceremony near these ruins with a shaman as your officiant. Machu Picchu. 2: There's an idea to turn the ruins of this old metropolis S. of Baghdad into a wedding venue, but you may want to wait for calm. Babylon. 3: Chichen Itza may be a good site for your nuptials; it's located in this Mexican state with the same name as a peninsula. the Yucatán. 4: Come clean with your bride at a wedding in Rome's baths of this emperor, opened in 216 A.D.. Caracalla. 5: Wed at the Talisay Ruins, once a sugar plantation on Negros Island, part of this Southeast Asian archipelago. the Philippines. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 808, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: military wives 1: As both a military and a political wife, she was determined not to look "Dowd"y. Mamie Eisenhower. 2: This widow of a slain Israeli general and prime minister now speaks out on the need for Middle East peace. Leah Rabin. 3: In 1824 David Farragut married Susan Marchant of this Virginia city and made that port his home. Norfolk. 4: A few weeks before their 1864 wedding, his fiancee Elizabeth called him her "old fellow with the golden curls". (George Armstrong) Custer. 5: That's the former Beatrice Ayer, gazing up at this husband of hers. General George Patton. Round 2. Category: all kinds of red 1: "Casey would waltz" with this kind of blonde as "the band played on". a strawberry blonde. 2: The kind of pirate played by Burt Lancaster in 1952 film. The Crimson Pirate. 3: The unmarried lady in the game of "Clue". Miss Scarlet. 4: A moron, the way Bugs Bunny usually pronounces it. maroon. 5: Cochineal treated with water and alum, or Eddie Mekka on "Laverne and Shirley". Carmine. Round 3. Category: royalty 1: Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, was the nephew of this last czar of Russia. Nicholas II. 2: Prince Rainier served in this country's army during WWII; Monaco doesn't have an army. France. 3: Bohemond I was a great leader of the first of these expeditions, in the 1090s. Crusades. 4: In 1993 King Hussein celebrated his 40th anniversary as ruler of this country. Jordan. 5: Rurik is the semi-legendary founder of this country. Russia. Round 4. Category: la la 1: This hit song by Ritchie Valens was originally the B-side of "Donna". "La Bamba". 2: This region in south-central Spain is the setting for Cervantes' "Don Quixote". La Mancha. 3: Bolivia's largest city, it was founded in 1548 on the site of an Inca village. La Paz. 4: George Hearn won a 1984 Tony for his role as Albin opposite Gene Barry's Georges in this Broadway musical. La Cage Aux Folles. 5: Before he was elected mayor of New York City in 1933, he served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Fiorello LaGuardia. Round 5. Category: nautical terms 1: Bird term for a small platform below the masthead light used as a lookout station. crow's nest. 2: A VLCC, very large crude carrier, is this type of ship. supertanker. 3: The helm of a small boat may just consist of a tiller and this in the water. Rudder. 4: An escutcheon is a board on the stern of a vessel that lists its port of registry and this. it's name. 5: This word can mean a vessel's national flag or the most junior commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. ensign. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Last time we spoke about the first adventure of the Chindits. Eccentric and quite literally madman Wingate was championed by Wavell to create a guerrilla unit to perform operations in Burma. Wingate soon readjusted the group to be a long range penetration group known as the Chindits. Their purpose was to disrupt the Japanese behind their front lines. The eccentric Wingate proved to be capable of turning men into onion wearing jungle warriors and they marched into the jungle to sabotage railway lines to hinder the Japanese. Their first mission was met with tremendous disaster after disaster, but surprisingly by the end they had achieved their goal of blowing up some railway. We finished off by talking about a lesser known allied partner during the Pacific War, Free France. The Japanese had ignored them for a long time, but eventually enough was enough and they seized Guangzhouwan from Free France thus ending their position in China. But today we are venturing back to the Aleutians. This episode is Landing at Amchitka and Invasion of the Russels Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  Now the last time we were in the Aleutians, the Americans had taken Adak back on August 30th of 1942. There they began building a new airfield from which they could continue to reclaim the Aleutian island chain. However the Japanese did not give up on their northern possessions and reoccupied Attu Island by late October. The Japanese acted so boldly because they believed the Amerians were not able to construct an airtstip yet on the neighboring island of Amchitka. Also during October, Kiska was reinforced by massive amounts of anti-aircraft weapons and an impressive underground network of bunkers. Now initially the plan for the Aleutians for the Japanese was simply a large feint that would see them gradually withdrawing to the northern Kuriles while bleeding the americans of lives and resources. However all the American activity in the north was surprising Japanese high command and they now were beginning to believe the Americans sought to hop along the Aleutian island chain all the way to the home islands to potentially invade Japan from the north, a rather insane war strategy to be sure. As a result, the Japanese high command decided not to abandon the Aleutians for the winter and on November 1st, the formulated a joint plan to strengthen the defenses of Kiska and Attu by February of 1943. They also sought to create a seaplane base at the unoccupied island of Shemya. Now on the other side, the US army planned to occupy Tanaga along with Atka after the Adak base was established, but for the time being this was not a pressing issue. What was a pressing issue was a concern that the Japanese might seize Amchitka, 60 miles east of Kiska. Admiral Nimitz directed Theobald to preempt any such occupation and for Colonel Talley to go with a party of Alaskan scouts to go to the island to see if it was possible to build an airfield there. The Alaskan scouts landed on the island having to hid, while Japanese reconnaissance aircraft flew overhead. They found test holes all over the island that had been made by Japanese patrols. Contrary to the Japanese reports, the Alaskan scouts determined Amchitka was long, narrow and flat, except of course for a volcano at one end, but this indicated it could operate an airfield. Given the viability of the island and the presence of the Japanese holes testing its viability likewise, the race was on. Thus Admiral Nimitz approved the invasion of Amchitka codenamed Operation Longview. General Marshall approved the plan to advance upon Amchitka and agreed to assign troops for an invasion. While planning for the Amchitka occupation was underway, major changes in command structure also were going on. On January 4th of 1943, Theobald was transferred out of his command assumed by Rear Admiral Thomas Kincaid. Likewise Theobalds second in command, rear admiral W.W Smith was also replaced by rear admiral Charles McMorris. Kincaid was a combat veteran who liked action and was more to Buckner's liking as he immediately went on the offensive, arranging for a task force to deliver the Army's Amchitka occupation forces of 2000 men led by Brigadier General Lloyd Jones. Beginning in early November upon discovering the Japanese reoccupation of Attu, General Butler sent missions against the island. Colonel William Eric Eareckson led the airforce to hit Attu, successfully destroying several beach installations, sank a cargo ship and took out 9 Zero fighters at Holtz Bay. During the first 6 months of 1943, Attu and Kiska would be attacked by the 11th air force who would hit the islands with over 3,000,000 pounds of bombs. In July Kiska alone would be hit by 900,000 pounds of bombs. Liberators, mitchells, dauntless, lightnings and warhawks took part in the aerial attacks making the islands untenable. This is quite a lesser known aspect of the Pacific War. The American airfield on Adak was little more than 200 miles away from the Japanese on Kiska and nearly twice that distance from Attu. Any day weather permitted it, American aircraft departed from Adak to strike at the Japanese, it was grueling work fighting the Japanese and mother nature.  Over on the Japanese side on November 23rd the first Shemya convoy departed from Paramushiro, carrying 1100 troops of the 303rd independent battalion escorted by the light cruisers Abukuma, Kiso, Tama and the destroyers Hacuoshimo, Wakaba and Usugumo led by Admiral Hosogaya. But before the convoy was able to get to the island, the Americans sent a wave of B-24's on November 27th which managed to sink the transport Cherrybourne Maru just off Attu waters. Hosogaya began receiving reports indicating a North Pacific task force was in the vicinity as well. This prompted Hosogaya to postpone the Shemya landings and return back to Paramushiro. Ironically there was no American task force in the north pacific as Admiral Theobald had literally taken the majority of warships with him for the invasion of North Africa.  Eareckson's constant aerial attacks forced Hosogaya to consolidate his vessels at all times and prompted him to take the entire convoy to Kiska landing the troops there on December 2nd. On December 18th, Earecksons aerial forces smashed Amchitka, destroying every building on the island. Mere hours after the report of the damage, General Buckner decided to send the Alaska scouts in. The Alaska Scouts, were also known as Castner's Cutthroats, led by Colonel Lawrence Castner. The scouting expedition showed further signs the Japanese had been on the island recently doing the same type of work as them. Thus operation longview's timetable had to be increased. The scouts reported a fighter strip could be built up in 2 to possibly 3 weeks and a main airfield in 3-4 months time. By the end of the year the 11th air force had managed to take down 50 enemy planes in combat and lost around a dozen in the combat. However, over 80 other aircraft had been lost to a multitude of other causes, such as good old mother nature. Operating in the far reaches of the north was extremely dangerous, and the weather seemed to be taking a heavier toll than the Japanese. In spite of mother nature, Eareckson's bombers continued their work using rather innovative means. Eareckson pioneering a low-level bombing technique to raid the enemy and thwart the effects of the unpredictable Aleutian weather. To overcome the shortness of the daylight cycle, he was forced to bomb at night and to do so he would use a single plane that preceded the main force by a minute to drop incendiary bombs to illuminate the area. It was a very Japanese type of strategy, perhaps he was learning from his enemy. As I had mentioned the 11th air force would literally drop more than a million pounds of bombs over Attu, Kiska and other islands under Earecksons command. Earecksons personally was in the air ever flyable day of the campaign excluding one brief October mission to the States. On January 4th, Admiral Kinkaid, an American admiral who had seen action in more big naval battles than anyone else, finally arrived at Kodiak to replace Theobald. The day after, Kinkaid ordered the full troop landings on Amchitka to be executed. Butler was very pleased to have a “fighting admiral”. Heavy cruiser Indianapolis, light cruisers Detroit, Raleigh and 7 destroyers led by Admiral McMorris were to do the job. Yet mother nature did not comply, the weather became severe forcing the americans to postpone the operation for a few days. Meanwhile Butler sent a reconnaissance over Amchitka and more air strikes against Attu and Kiska. These runs led to the sinking of the freighter Montreal Maru off the Komandorski islands, hey I am from Montreal and the Kotohiro Maru off Attu.  Because of the nonstop pressure from the 11th air fleet, the Japanese were only able to pull off 8 resupply runs for Kiska and 4 for Attu between December 17th to January 30th. Basically it was similar to the situation on Guadalcanal, trying to stop the Japanese from receiving provisions. By the night of January 11th the weather continued to look bad, but as the storms slacked just a bit, Admiral McMorris decided to depart with the 2100 Engineer and army troops led by Brigadier General Lloyd Jones. It was a risk to be sure, you could not trust any windows of decent weather to be open for very long. McMorris also ordered the destroyer Worden to take a detachment of Alaska Scouts led by Lt COlonel William Verback to hit Constantine harbor. The destroyer blasted through the surf at the harbor mouth shortly before dawn, successfully landing Verbeck's scouts. But as the Worden made her departure from the harbor mouth a brutal current smashed her onto a pinnacle rock, leaving her powerless. The destroyer Dewey was sent racing off to assist her, but the Worden would capsize and kill 14 of her crew before the rescue could be made. Like I said, mother nature was taking a heavier toll than the Japanese. Verbecks scouts did a full reconnaissance of the island finding no Japanese forces, so the rest of the convoy came in. They came ashore the same way they had come ashore at Adak, wading through icy surf. They were soaked with ice water and oil. It was miserable, but Amchitka was quickly secured. The American engineers went to work immediately to construct the new airfield. They would have 12 days before a Japanese aircraft emerged to the scene, it was a floatplane which reported their presence back to Kiska. The men made good use of the 12 days and it was the same story as what occurred on Adak before. Men toiling without rest in winter rain and wind, in the bitter cold surf of Constantine harbor, wading through black Aleutian mud, climbing over rocks and heavy tundra. They unloaded, carried ashore, stored and protected their arms, ammunition, food, fuel and other equipment, even the smallest of kindling. Her in the Aleutians, the soldiers bodily needs were more than that in a place like the south pacific, I can assure you I live in a place where we get the nasty combination of ice rain and snow, its not fun to be out in that. The Japanese commanders were shocked by the unexpected occupation of Amchitka which lay only 50 miles from their main base at Kiska. The Japanese began their own series of air strikes against Amchitka hoping to hinder the construction of the airfield. They knew if the American completed an airfield the already relentiles air attacks would increase. The Japanese air raids caused considerable damage over the course of the following days, but the american engineers performed miracles and managed to complete the Amchitka runway by the end of January, allowing a P-40 squadron to be landed on January 28th. After this the Japanese bombing missions became more sporadic until February 18th when they ceased. Just like the Americans, mother nature was just as cruel to the Japanese and they simply could not spare anymore aircraft bombing Amchitka, they had to have a reserve to defend themselves. Now additional air forces were joining the daily raids against Kiska using Amchitka as a launch pad. The Japanese were being whittled down slowly but surely in the north. Yet we need to leave the north and head back south to the Solomons. After the epic conclusion of the Guadalcanal campaign, culminating with the success of Operation KE, the Japanese Empire now had to switch to the defensive. During Operation KE, on February the 1st, the Americans received a cascade of sighting reports from coastwatchers and scouting aircraft. Some 20 Japanese destroyers had headed down the slot and a small Japanese infantry force was landed in the Russell Islands. Likewise allied flights over the Japanese held anchorage off Buin noted a sharp increase in the number of ships. Now the third run of Operation KE took place on the night of February 7th and lifted 1796 men off Guadalcanal and the Russell Islands. This prompted Admirals Nimitz and Halsey to commence their campaign to move up the solomons and thwart any Japanese incursions moving down them. In January they wanted to hit the Japanese base at Munda, but lacked the necessary forces for such an operation. One place in the solomons they could perform an operation against was the Russell Islands to the southeast. Admiral Halsey decided it would be advantageous to seize the Russell Islands and develop them while preventing their use to the Japanese. Thus operation Cleanslate was born. The idea behind it was simple, take the island away from Japanese use, further limited the Japanese operational capacity in the solomons and the Russell Islands could be used as a launching pad to hit other places like New Georgia. As Air Force historian Kramer Rohfleisch put it “for allied operations worked in such a way, that each fresh base became a successive cancer in the structure of the enemy's defense lines, sending out its tentacles and relentlessly destroying the equipment and personnel opposing it”. Operation Cleanslate was to be the first step in the conquest of the central and northern solomon islands, all to culminate with the final drive against the stronghold of Rabaul. By the end of January Halsey received permission from Nimitz to proceed with the invasion. The americans would dispatch an infantry battalion and anti-aircraft units from Guadalcanal into 2 destroyers to occupy the Russell Islands. Likewise the Japanese quickly beat them to the punch by landing around 400 troops as indicated by their aerial reconnaissance. As we know however, this was not a reinforcement of the island, but a part of Operation KE. The 17th army sought to use the Russell islands as a backup extraction point if the destroyers failed to get the men off Guadalcanal. Halsey was forced to postpone Operation Cleanslate, believing the Japanese were going to put up a large fight for the Russell Islands. In early february the Americans still were unaware the Japanese had evacuated Guadalcanal, but Hasley finally kicked off Operation Cleanslate regardless on the 7th. The 103rd and 169th regiments of Major General John Hester along with the 3rd marine raider battalion, anti aircraft units from the 10th and 11th marine defense battalions and ACORN 3: a naval engineering force of the 35th naval construction battalion.  Admiral Turner was given command of the operations with his task force 64 consisting of 8 destroyers, 5 minesweepers, 12 tank landing craft and a number of barges and torpedo boats. He was going to receive assistance from Admiral Fitch's land based aircraft to cover the transports and 2 other task forces. Task force 18 led by Admiral Giffen consisting of heavy cruisers Wichita, Louisville and 3 destroyers and Task force 68 led by Rear Admiral Aaron Merrill consisting of light cruisers Montpelier, Cleveland, Denver, Columbia and 4 destroyers. The other task forces would be in close proximity just in case things got dicey. Of course unbeknownst to the Americans the Japanese had evacuated the Russell Islands by the 10th closing off Operation KE. Australians and New Zealand coastwatcher alongside US army, marine and naval air reconnaissance saw a ton of abandoned equipment on the Russell Islands, which Halsey ignored as he was deadset to carry out Operation Cleanslate as planned, fearing the enemy might try to reinforce the islands still. On February the 20th the first echelon of the Russells Occupation force departed Guadalcanal under strict radio silence. It was an uneventful trip and the transports were divided into 3 groups to hit their landing sites. The 10rd regiment landed on Banika easily taking control over the island. The 3rd marine raider battalion did the same at Pavuvu. The landings went unopposed, but the Marines quickly found out that the 10 man rubber rafts used for their landings had motor issues. Alongside this the 169th field artillery battalion somehow managed to get lost and took over 19 hours to land instead of 2, but by the end of the day the islands were firmly in American hands. The men began digging themselves into defensive positions. As soon as reports came in that the islands were secure, Halsey began pouring Seabees into the islands and supplied their 2 new fighter strips with lavish amounts of ammunition and aviation fuel in anticipation of expanding the air operations in the central solomons. But the Russell Islands were at the absolute limit of Hasleys designated border, technically they were over that border. No more westward progress could occur without good old General MacArthurs blessing. So the men simply set to work, and by the end of hte month over 9000 soldiers were in the Russells and the construction of a new airbase was occurring in Banika and a torpedo boat base at Wernham Cove. Upon learning of the American seizure of the Russells, the Japanese launched a surprise air strike. 12 Vals and 25 zeros struck the unfinished airfield and torpedo boat base on March 6th without any warning. They caused little damage, but would just be the beginning of a 3 month long campaign of night air attacks. By late may the airfield at Banika alongside the torpedo boat base, a training center and staging area for the future operation against new georgia. Operation Cleanslate may have been lackluster when it came to combat, but acted as a great practice run for what was to be the future of island hoping warfare in the solomons. The landing craft tank veterans of operation cleanslate would help teach others, increasing Americans amphibious capabilities. The American also learned a very valuable lesson when it came to loading and landing operations. They had certainly come a long way from the earlier experience of operation Watchtower. Now back to the issue of Hasley's operation stepping on the toes of MacArthur's area. Upon taking the Russell Islands, Halsey had his eyes on Munda Point, where there was a new Japanese fighter strip in New Georgia, around 120 miles to the west. The terrain looked suitable for a large bomber field, something highly desired. But MacArthur stood in the way, so they were going to have to talk. A face to face summit was made in early april, forcing Halsey to cross the Coral sea to present himself to the general at the AMP building in Brisbane. There was no reason to believe this was going to be a warm meeting. Halsey to this point had certainly not appreciated MacArthur's credit snatching communiques. In fact one aide to Halsey had referred to General MacArthur as quote “a self-advertising son of a bitch”. MacArthur had also declined an invitation from Admiral Nimitz to attend a command conference in Noumea in September of 1942, a slight insult if you were. He instead sent Sutherland and Kenney in his place to which one of Nimitz staff officers remarked “MacArthur found himself unable to be present”. When Halsey met MacArthur face to face, believe or not they instantly took a liking to another. Within just 5 minutes Halsey wrote “I felt as if we were lifelong friends. I have seldom seen a man who makes a quicker, stronger, more favorable impression. He was then 63 years old, but he could have passed as 50. His hair was jet black; his eyes were clear; his carriage was erect. If he had been wearing civilian clothes, I still would have known at once that he was a soldier”. MacArthur was equally impressed writing about Halsey  “He was of the same aggressive type as John Paul Jones, David Farragut, and George Dewey. His one thought was to close with the enemy and fight him to the death. . . . I liked him from the moment we met, and my respect and admiration increased with time.” In the year that followed the admiral and general would effectively coordinate their operations in the south pacific. As Kenney and Kinkaid had learned, and as Halsey was in turn, MacArthur was accustomed to deference but did not bristle at well reasoned opposition. MacArthur could yield to sound arguments. Of course heated arguments occurred between the two men. Halsey's long term chief of staff, Robert Carney witnessed one in 1943 where he said “The admiral, with his “chin sticking out a foot,” told MacArthur that he was placing his “personal honor . . . before the security of the United States and the outcome of the war!” MacArthur responded “Bull, that's a terrible indictment. That's a terrible thing to say. But, I think in my preoccupation, I've forgotten some things. . . . You can go on back now. The commitment will be met.” Imagine that, MacArthur almost admitting a mistake, that goes to show the character of Halsey. What they were arguing about was Hasley proposing to attack New Georgia and it turned out to be inline with MacArthurs thinking. MacArthur approved the operation on the spot and it would intersect with his own plans for an offensive up the north coast of New Guinea.  Because of the seizure of the Russell Island's, D-Day for the invasion of New Georgia would be originally set for May 15th, but would get postponed to June 30th. However that is far into the future for us!   I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. Amchitka and the Russell Islands were taken unopposed and with relative ease. The Americans were being cautious in their actions, but little by little they were breaking down Japan's new defensive posture, a few islands down and many more to come.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 738, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Cable Tv 1: A shout of approval to an actor, or the cable network of "Inside the Actors Studio". Bravo. 2: This acronym for American Christian Television System is a book of the Bible, too. ACTS. 3: This MTV show launched in 1991 has turned strangers into enemies in NYC, London and Hawaii. The Real World. 4: Actress who started the "Faerie Tale Theatre". Shelley Duvall. 5: This "channel" went on in 1985 and the "networks" of that name now include Animal Planet and The Learning Channel. The Discovery Channel. Round 2. Category: 3Rd Rock From The Sun 1: This outer part of the Earth shares its name with the outer part of a pie. crust. 2: From the Latin for "track", it's the path of the Earth around the Sun. orbit. 3: This satellite of the Earth is a whopping 2,160 miles in diameter--a lot bigger than it looks. the Moon. 4: The highest temperature ever recorded on earth was 136° F. at Al-Aziziyah on this continent. Africa. 5: Some theorize that the Earth once had just one of these, called Panthalassa. ocean. Round 3. Category: Aye Aye, Captain 1: A national park on this country's South Island is named for Captain Abel Tasman. New Zealand. 2: In 1837 Captain Matthew Perry took command of the U.S. Navy's first ship powered by this. steam. 3: This New World settlement was founded May 14, 1607 by a group led by Captain Christopher Newport. Jamestown. 4: After his fleet took New Orleans in April 1862, this captain was promoted to rear admiral. David Farragut. 5: This British explorer of the Pacific Northwest has his own herb as well as an island. George Vancouver. Round 4. Category: On The Cover Of Sgt. Pepper 1: He's an African explorer, "I presume". Dr. Livingstone. 2: Bob Dylan appears as does this poet from whom he may have taken his stage name. Dylan Thomas. 3: This actor is in costume from his film "The Wild One". Marlon Brando. 4: The Beatles' bass player before Paul took over. Stu Sutcliffe. 5: This "Das Kapital" author stands between comedian Oliver Hardy and H.G. Wells. Karl Marx. Round 5. Category: Coffee, Tea Or Mead? 1: In 1904 Thomas Sullivan began the practice of putting tea in small ones of these; his were made of silk. bags. 2: It's the "Irish" ingredient in Irish coffee. Irish whiskey. 3: It's French for "coffee with milk". cafe au lait. 4: Mead is known as sima in this country that borders Norway and Sweden. Finland. 5: This mead ingredient is made by animals. honey. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Admiral James Stavridis - The Bold Decision To Risk It All. | Brought to you by Babbel (https://babbel.com/passionstruck    Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) spent more than thirty years in the U. S. Navy, rising to the rank of four-star admiral. He was Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and previously commanded U. S. Southern Command, overseeing military operations through Latin America. He holds a Ph. D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he recently served five years as dean. He received fifty medals in the course of his military career. 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What I discuss with Admiral James Stavridis 0:00 Teaser and announcements 3:00 Introducing Admiral James Staridis In this episode 5:23 The power of decision making 7:44 The Amazing Story of Petty Officer Dorie Miller 13:22 Admiral Michelle Howard's moment of truth 18:39 The concept of how time slows down 27:27 Why Ernest Edwin Evans received the Medal of Honor  32:18 Why Admiral Zheng He is a revered figure in China 37:09 The vital importance of India in the global balance of power 42:46 Why creativity is at the heart of our character 44:51 Admiral Stavridis discusses his Citadel Commencement Speech 48:47 The character traits ADM Stavridis learned from his father 52:26 The opportunity for mentorship and leadership 56:20 Show wrap-up and analysis To Risk It All Admiral Stavridis joins us to discuss his new book To Risk It All where he delivers a master class in decision-making under pressure seen through the prism of some of the most heroic acts in the 250-year history of the United States Navy. 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Quienes hayan leído 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino, de Julio Verne, recordarán al Comodoro Farragut, un personaje central de la novela, avezado e intrépido marino. Este audaz y experimentado hombre de mar está inspirado en quien fue el primer Almirante de la Armada de los Estados Unidos, David Farragut. David fue realmente bautizado como James Farragut y era hijo de Jorge Farragut, un marino mercante menorquín que comandaba un modesto barco que navegaba rutas comerciales entre Veracruz, México y Nueva Orleans. Padre e hijo destacarían en su labor como marinos de EEUU, el primero en la Guerra de Independencia estadounidense y el segundo en la de Secesión.

Those who have read Julio Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea will remember Commodore Farragut, one of the central characters of the novel, who was a seasoned and brave marine. This fearless and experienced seaman is inspired by the first Admiral of the US Navy, David Farragut. David was originally baptized as James Farragut, and he was the son of Jorge Farragut, a Menorcan maritime merchant who sailed a modest vessel along the route between Veracruz, Mexico and New Orleans. Both the father and the son would be important marines with key roles in the War of Independence, in the case of Jorge, and the US Civil War for David.

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This week we're talking about how this kindly looking gentleman, Kody Scott, became known as Monster at the age of 13, and all the naval shenanigans and tricks committed by this doughy Mel Brooks impersonator, David Farragut. Gunfights, rapper cameos, the benefits of nighttime boating, and the devil magic that keeps iron ships afloat. All that and more on this week's episode of "holy shit my life is boring by comparison!"

About this episode:  By late December of 1864, dark waters were closing over the Confederacy. Back in August, David Farragut's fleet successfully bottled up Mobile Bay. Two months later, up in the Shenandoah, federal victory at Cedar Creek opened the valley to fire and desolation. In November, William Sherman marched his army across Georgia, and as he entered Savannah in December, he envisioned a similar path of destruction north through the Carolinas. That same month, over in Tennessee, George Thomas won a decisive victory at Nashville, and in Virginia, U.S. Grant continued to pin down Lee's army at Petersburg. Though the noose was being tightened round the neck of the Confederacy, there was still one major supply line and portal from which the shrinking Confederacy could count on supplies from the outside world. That railroad line was so vitally important Robert E. Lee tabbed it "the lifeline of the Confederacy." It ran from Petersburg south to Weldon, North Carolina and then down to the port city of Wilmington. This is the story of the massive fort that protected that city; that lifeline. Fort Fisher: The Gibraltar Of The Confederacy.----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:  Charles F. Fisher Henry Chase Whiting Braxton Bragg Gideon Welles David Farragut Benjamin Butler David Dixon Porter Edwin Stanton Newton Martin Curtis    Other References From This Episode: Fort Fisher State Historic Site The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays Of Departing Hope; Chris E. Fonvielle Jr.  Confederate Goliath: The Battle Of Fort Fisher; Rod Gragg Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.   Producer: Dan Irving

Though the U.S. Navy’s blockade of the Confederacy has not received the attention devoted to the bloody campaigns on land, it was an important contributor to the Union’s victory in the Civil War. In Lincoln’s Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War (University of Alabama Press, 2015), Robert M. Browning Jr. describes the operations of the blockade in the Gulf Coast region. At the start of the war the newly-formed West Gulf squadron was faced with the task of patrolling hundreds of miles of coastline, from the Florida port of Pensacola to the Rio Grande River. Initially composed of just a handful of ships, the squadron would often spend months stationed off the coast, attempting to interdict the blockade runners that aided the Confederate war effort by bringing in the supplies the Confederates could not produce themselves. As the war went on the squadron took on the formidable task of capturing the major Confederate ports, and under the command of David Farragut it was instrumental to the capture of New Orleans and Mobile, as well as the occupation of the lower Mississippi River. It was through such efforts that the navy helped the Union win the war, and sooner than might otherwise have been possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though the U.S. Navy’s blockade of the Confederacy has not received the attention devoted to the bloody campaigns on land, it was an important contributor to the Union’s victory in the Civil War. In Lincoln’s Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War (University of Alabama Press, 2015), Robert M. Browning Jr. describes the operations of the blockade in the Gulf Coast region. At the start of the war the newly-formed West Gulf squadron was faced with the task of patrolling hundreds of miles of coastline, from the Florida port of Pensacola to the Rio Grande River. Initially composed of just a handful of ships, the squadron would often spend months stationed off the coast, attempting to interdict the blockade runners that aided the Confederate war effort by bringing in the supplies the Confederates could not produce themselves. As the war went on the squadron took on the formidable task of capturing the major Confederate ports, and under the command of David Farragut it was instrumental to the capture of New Orleans and Mobile, as well as the occupation of the lower Mississippi River. It was through such efforts that the navy helped the Union win the war, and sooner than might otherwise have been possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though the U.S. Navy’s blockade of the Confederacy has not received the attention devoted to the bloody campaigns on land, it was an important contributor to the Union’s victory in the Civil War. In Lincoln’s Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War (University of Alabama Press, 2015), Robert M. Browning Jr. describes the operations of the blockade in the Gulf Coast region. At the start of the war the newly-formed West Gulf squadron was faced with the task of patrolling hundreds of miles of coastline, from the Florida port of Pensacola to the Rio Grande River. Initially composed of just a handful of ships, the squadron would often spend months stationed off the coast, attempting to interdict the blockade runners that aided the Confederate war effort by bringing in the supplies the Confederates could not produce themselves. As the war went on the squadron took on the formidable task of capturing the major Confederate ports, and under the command of David Farragut it was instrumental to the capture of New Orleans and Mobile, as well as the occupation of the lower Mississippi River. It was through such efforts that the navy helped the Union win the war, and sooner than might otherwise have been possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though the U.S. Navy’s blockade of the Confederacy has not received the attention devoted to the bloody campaigns on land, it was an important contributor to the Union’s victory in the Civil War. In Lincoln’s Trident: The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War (University of Alabama Press, 2015), Robert M. Browning Jr. describes the operations of the blockade in the Gulf Coast region. At the start of the war the newly-formed West Gulf squadron was faced with the task of patrolling hundreds of miles of coastline, from the Florida port of Pensacola to the Rio Grande River. Initially composed of just a handful of ships, the squadron would often spend months stationed off the coast, attempting to interdict the blockade runners that aided the Confederate war effort by bringing in the supplies the Confederates could not produce themselves. As the war went on the squadron took on the formidable task of capturing the major Confederate ports, and under the command of David Farragut it was instrumental to the capture of New Orleans and Mobile, as well as the occupation of the lower Mississippi River. It was through such efforts that the navy helped the Union win the war, and sooner than might otherwise have been possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Admiral David Farragut

James M. McPherson spoke about Civil War admirals David Farragut and Samuel Francis Du Pont at the conference “Civil War Lives,” held at the Huntington Library in October 2011. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor Emeritus of American History at Princeton University.