{"id":3570,"date":"2025-08-08T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsthescuddlebutt.com\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:25:17","slug":"chronicling-combat-sandra-mcgee-on-wwii-amphibious-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/chronicling-combat-sandra-mcgee-on-wwii-amphibious-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicling Combat: Sandra McGee on WWII Amphibious Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week on the What\u2019s The Scuttlebutt Podcast, author Sandra McGee joins us to discuss the World War II books she co-wrote with her late husband, author William L. McGee, over the course of 20 years. Sandra shares her experiences researching, proofreading, and editing some of the most impactful and detailed works ever written about the South Pacific Amphibious Forces in WWII. The three critically acclaimed books include: The Amphibians Are Coming! The Solomons Campaigns 1942\u20131943 Pacific Express Sandra also co-authored Operation Crossroads, the story of the two atomic bomb tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in July 1946, immediately following WWII. She offers valuable advice on conducting research for large-scale projects and reflects on meaningful moments shared with World War II veterans throughout her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsthescuddlebutt.com\/ep-215\/\">Listen \/ More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on the What\u2019s The Scuttlebutt Podcast, author Sandra McGee joins us to discuss the World War II books she co-wrote with her late husband, author William L. McGee, over the course of 20 years. Sandra shares her experiences researching, proofreading, and editing some of the most impactful and detailed works ever written about the South Pacific Amphibious Forces in WWII. The three critically acclaimed books include: The Amphibians Are Coming! The Solomons Campaigns 1942\u20131943 Pacific Express Sandra also co-authored Operation Crossroads, the story of the two atomic bomb tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in July 1946, immediately following WWII. She offers valuable advice on conducting research for large-scale projects and reflects on meaningful moments shared with World War II veterans throughout her work. Listen \/ More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtspwwii.com\/wtsp-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}