Japanese Landings on Luzon-December 1941 with John McManus

Seth Paridon and Jon Parshall bring John McManus on to walk through the December 1941 Japanese landings on Luzon — Aparri, Vigan, Legaspi, and the main event at Lingayen Gulf — plus the panic in Manila after Clark Field and MacArthur's halting response. The episode benefits from McManus's deep knowledge of the US Army in the Pacific, and the trio get into the operational detail of why the Philippine defence collapsed so quickly. Over an hour of three knowledgeable voices working through a campaign that's usually compressed into a paragraph before Bataan takes over — this is the kind of granular coverage the Pacific War rarely gets in podcast form.