Seven at Santa Cruz
History with Mark Bielski
English - August 02, 2018 13:25 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHistory europeanhistory tudors wwi americanhistory civilwar history lewisandclark markbielski wwii Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Mark’s guest is Ted Edwards, whose new book, Seven at Santa Cruz, is a riveting biography of WWII pilot, Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa. It is an up-close look at the battles of Santa Cruz and Coral Sea and how Vejtasa became a naval hero fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. He flew from aircraft carriers Yorktown and Enterprise and became the only dive-bomber pilot to be awarded Navy crosses for both bombing and aerial combat.