{"id":62627,"date":"2023-01-30T03:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T09:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=62627"},"modified":"2023-01-30T03:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T09:42:05","slug":"ww2-podcast-surviving-guadalcanal-and-iwo-jima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/ww2-podcast-surviving-guadalcanal-and-iwo-jima\/","title":{"rendered":"WW2 Podcast: Surviving Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62632\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/01\/iwo766.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>On this episode of the RealClearDefense podcast \u201cHot Wash,\u201d RCD contributor John Waters speaks with William Swanson, a Marine Corps veteran of the battle of Guadalcanal in World War II\u2019s Pacific campaign.<\/h2>\n<h2>Now 98 years old, Swanson is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/View-Foxhole-Firsthand-Experience-Guadalcanal-ebook\/dp\/B0BFRR8MZK\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BKNUKI3RQAF&amp;keywords=the+view+from+my+foxhole&amp;qid=1675070883&amp;sprefix=the+view+from+my+foxho%2Caps%2C460&amp;sr=8-1\">\u201cThe View From My Foxhole\u201d<\/a> a firsthand account of the brutal fighting at Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/realclear-defense-presents-hot-wash.simplecast.com\/episodes\/surviving-guadalcanal-S58Vkq0v\">https:\/\/realclear-defense-presents-hot-wash.simplecast.com\/episodes\/surviving-guadalcanal-S58Vkq0v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this episode of the RealClearDefense podcast \u201cHot Wash,\u201d RCD contributor John Waters speaks with William Swanson, a Marine Corps veteran of the battle of Guadalcanal in World War II\u2019s Pacific campaign. Now 98 years old, Swanson is the author of \u201cThe View From My Foxhole\u201d a firsthand account of the brutal fighting at Bougainville,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,478,479,3927,1898,1899],"tags":[15586,15587,15588,15589,1902,15590],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}