This week Seth and Bill take a very deep dive into the decision to either invade Formosa or liberate the Philippines in the fall of 1944. The two options were both on the table for the JCS in 1944, and the favored option isn't the one you are thinking of.

The team takes a look at the roots of the Philippine obsession by MacArthur and the desire to take Formosa by ADM King and the tactics employed by both teams as they each tried to steer the JCS and the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to their side of the fence. The back-and-forth fight culminated in a meeting between Nimitz, MacArthur and FDR in Hawaii in 1944. Tune in and see what the political intrigue and in-fighting was all about in 1944.

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