The Withdrawal to Bataan with John McManus

Seth Paridon and Jon Parshall bring back John McManus to walk through the phased withdrawal to Bataan from Christmas Eve 1941 into the New Year — one of the most difficult retrograde operations the US Army ever attempted. The episode gives Wainwright his due as the man who actually held the northern Luzon defence together while MacArthur managed from Corregidor, and the logistics discussion — moving supplies, demolishing bridges on schedule, feeding a force that was already on short rations — is exactly the kind of unglamorous operational detail that makes this show consistently excellent. At over an hour with three knowledgeable voices, this is the Pacific War podcast at its best.