War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. your host, James Early. Hello and welcome to a special topical episode of Key Battles of American History.

I'm your host James Early, as always.

And this is another one of my one-off single topic episodes that has been requested

by one of my patrons. In other words, one of the members of Early's Raiders. This is for Colonel

Mitchell Bass. And the topic is Operation Title Wave. It's another World War II story. and Sean McIver was kind enough to write this episode

for me, so I know you're going to love it. At least I hope you will. I think you will. Since this is a

Patreon requested episode, you know, I usually put in my plug for Patreon supporters at the end

of the episode, but you know, let's live on the edge here

and mix things up a little bit. So I'll go ahead and let you know, as most of you already know,

that if you would like to commission an episode on a topic of your choosing, you could do so by

going to patreon.com and searching up key battles of American history.

There are five levels to support me with, and if you join at the major level or higher,

you two can commission an episode on a topic of your choosing,

as long as it has to do with American military history.

So Mitchell Bass has requested Operation Title Wave,

and so without any further ado, let's get right on it. A little bit of background for starters.

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