Medal Of Honor Monday featuring U.S. Navy WW2 vet Commander Ernest Evans

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love your show. I'm so appreciative of the way you honor our veterans. I'm an Army war veteran and you are a Marine war veteran. Thank you for your continued service. I love your discussions about history. They're truly meaningful. I would like to nominate a person for Medal of Honor Monday. His name is Commander Ernest Evans. I went down with I went down with his ship in the lay Tay Golf, I think, he said, I think he went down and the Lata Golf and World War II in the battle

off the coast of Samar. This man had a rendezvous with destiny and we should be proud of such men whose courage and honor set an example for us all. I hope you will decide to feature Commander Evans on a future Medal of Honor Monday. Thank you, God bless and it would be my honor to do so. Without further ado, let's talk about Ernest Edwin Chief Evans, and I'll give you a little background around it after I get done. Right, Hey, honoring those who went above and

beyond of Honor Monday. As I said, if you're looking for more details, I'll give you a few afterwards. In fact that we even give you a book recommendation at the end of this one. So buckle up for that, all right, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as commanding officer of the USS Johnston in action against major units of the Japanese Fleet during the Battle off Samar on the twenty fifth of October nineteen forty four.

The first to lay a smoke screen and to open fire, as an enemy task force vastly superior in number, firepower, and armor rapidly approached, Commander Evans gallantly diverted the powerful blasts of hostile guns from the lightly armed and armored carriers under his protection, launching the first torpedo attack when

the Johnston came under straddling Japanese shell fire. Daunted by damage sustained during the terrific volume of fire, he unhesitatingly joined others of his group to provide fire support during subsequent torpedo attacks against the Japanese and out shooting and out maneuvering the enemy as he consistently interposed his vessel between the hostile fleet units and our carriers, despite the crippling loss of engine power and communications with steering aft,

shifted command of the fantail, shouted steered orders through an open hatch to men turning the rudder by hand, and battled furiously until the Johnston, burned and shuddering from a mortal blow, lay dead in the water after three hours of fierce combat. Seriously wounded in the early engagement, Commander Evans, by his indomitable courage and brilliant professional skill, aided materially in turning back the enemy during a critical phase of

the action. His valiant spirit throughout the hist historic battle will venture as an inspiration to all who served him. And as I said, I'm about to give you a bit of background on that. I don't know how long I'll take. Might be two minutes, it might be ten minutes, but I feel like everyone deserves a little background on that. But this man went down to the deep. They did not actually even lay eyes on the USS Johnston until recently. I think it was twenty twenty one. It was really

really recently. It went down, if memory serves me, in like fifteen twenty thousand foot depths. But Commander Evans went down with it and gave his life valiantly for this country. And he has more than earned taps rest in peace. Brother Jewish producer Chris, just let me know it was actually October of twenty nineteen. I knew it was recent and it was twenty one thousand feet deep, just recently discovered. Okay, So this is an incredible act and it's an incredible battle.

And before I go into just a little bit of the background of an I wanted to let you know one of the great great World War Two books I have ever read in my life will give you tons of detail around this battle that I'm not going to take the time to do. Now there's a bunch of stories going on in the globe. I'll take a little but Last Stand of the ten Can Sailors. I'll give it to you two more times so I don't get

an email asking me the name of the book. The book is the Last Stand of the ten Can Sailors, one more time for the cheap seats. Last Stand of the ten Can Sailors is the name of the book. All right, So here's a bit of background on. First of all, let's discuss what kind of ship this was, because this is going to matter, and it makes what Evans did and all the crew members of the US Johnston. It makes what they did so incredibly cool. And the

ending of this story is awesome to me. I've always when I first read it, I almost got choked up, is how much I loved it. So first understand this was a destroyer. I don't expect you to be any kind of an expert on naval vessels, so just stay with me on this. I'll give you some basics. And I'm not claiming to be an expert. I'm not some career navy man or something like that. It's the basics and things like that. What is at least during World

War Two? What were the purpose of destroyers? Because there are carriers. You know what an aircraft carrier is. You know what a battleship is. But okay, let's just discuss that battleship versus destroyer. Why the two different ships? Well, two different roles. And there's something I want you to understand physics. I'm not a physics expert. That there's a give and take for everything. A lot of these ships. What we're dealing with is not only armor size, gun

size and the more armor your ship has. Yes, that sounds lovely, but why not just put you know twenty feet thick armor on all of them, because armor weighs you down. They have not changed the laws of physics. You can have heavy armor and with stanblous and be slow. You can have lighter armor and move more quickly, but you won't be able to take near as much punishment. If you look at a battleship versus a destroyer, it's

not just that the battleship is bigger. The battleship is made to take more of a punch because it has a different role. Which brings us to the role the World War Two role of the destroyer. What were the destroyers doing? Like, what was the USS Johnston? What was its job? What was its role? Well, they did different things, so I don't want to act like it was one thing, but one of the main things. In fact, what it was doing at the start of this battle was it

was a bodyguard. I'll put it to you that way. It was considered a bodyguard for what for the huge aircraft carriers? Remember the aircraft carriers of World War two, at least as it goes to the Pacific. They didn't really play a role in the Atlantic, but in the Pacific they were everything. World War two was fought on the Big Blue in the Pacific, It was fought in the water. An aircraft carrier is a mobile army for obvious reasons. It's where all your planes are. You want

to bomb straight whatever. Your carriers are your everything. They're big, they takes a long time to build them, they're expensive to build. They don't grow on trees, and so when you get one, that is your military for the World War two. For as far as World War two goes. Now, here's the problem. The enemy knows that too. Both sides knew that. Whenever we were what were our planes doing during World War Two? Are our naval aircraft? What were

they doing? Always hunting for carriers? They called them flat tops for obvious reasons, But they were out hunting for carriers. Don't get me wrong. They would sink any Japanese ship they found. But the duel was the carrier, because you knew that presented the biggest threat to you. Well, the Japanese were and are very capable and very smart too. They understood an American aircraft carrier is what you must sink. That's where all that air power is coming from. Get

the carrier. Get the carrier. So you need something like a destroyer, and I'll talk a little bit more about this, then we'll get back to politics. I don't care. I feel like doing some history before we do that. World War two talk gets my testosterone flowing even more. It just does. It's like any other man. When I talk World War two, my TA levels go through the roof. But if we're being honest, I have a little bit of a leg up and that I take a male

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now joining us. We honored mister Ernest Edwin Evans, Commander Evans, commander of the USS Johnston and I was talking about the lead up to the battle. I was discussing the role of a destroyer in World War Two. In general, destroyers were fairly lightly armored. They were made to be fast. They were made to take out submarines, and especially a little later on towards the war, they were made to

take out airplanes. As the Kami Kazi problem from the Japanese got worse and worse and worse, the destroyers were fitted to take out subs and take out planes. Again, back to what I was discussing, their bodyguards, bodyguards for the flat tops, bodyguards for the aircraft carriers. Remember fast, they're fast, but lightly armored. That's look when you want to take out a submarine. We've talked about it before.

If to the untrained mind, if you just don't know anything about it, you would think a submarine would have an advantage of a virtually anybody.

about it. That's the job of a destroyer. The bodyguard for the aircraft carriers. Brings us to nineteen forty four when this took place, the Battle off Samar. What are we doing here? What is all this stuff? We are getting ready as a country to retake the Philippines. We are getting ready to invade and retake the Philippines. Now this is nineteen forty four. Anyone who's listening, anyone who pays attention to World War II history understands the timeline.

Nineteen forty one was a bad year across the board. Nineteen forty two, even after we got into the war, wasn't that much better for most of the parties involved, most of the good guys. That about towards the end of nineteen forty two, things started to turn. Forty three

was disastrous for the Axis. Forty four was apocalyptic. So as we get ready to retake the Philippines, the Japanese Navy is in shambles, shambles, but they understand if they lose the Philippines, they've essentially lost everything they gained to start the war, and now they're just counting time until we invade the Home Islands. They take pretty much everything they have left at their disposal in their fleet, and they send a Japanese fleet down to the Philippines to

stop us. They have their super huge battleship, they all of it. They send it all down to stop us. Stop America at any cost. America. Look, I'm not going to go onto those strategic decision making about this. You can read the book. You can read up on it. America kind of splits its forces up a bit, and we find ourselves in a situation where this massive, powerful Japanese fleet is bearing down on those escort carriers that are so important to us. Remember, the carriers are everything

that brings us to the USS Johnston. I already explained. It's very fast, but this is a destroyer very lightly armored. The Johnston along with some other ships, they understand that they have to take some bold action or this Japanese fleet that surprised us is going to take out some of our really really important ships. And so the people on the USS Johnston, instead of running away, chose to put up smoke screens as you heard here, and they

chose to charge. They looked at this gigantic Japanese fleet, all these huge guns, and they essentially charged into certain death. At one point in time, Commander Evans, you know how it said he was, he had already been brutally wounded. Yeah, they practically blew his hand off. It had been hit with so much stuff. The ship was crippled. They blew off multiple fingers. He had to relocate the command posts. He's still commanding the ship without fingers, without maybe even

a hand, commanding a ship. And what's he doing. He's not just limping along. They are firing more guns everything they have as they are limping and vulnerable. Member they don't even have armor. At one point in time, they get hit by a round from the big Japanese battleship. The battleship doesn't realize how lightly armored the destroyer is.

They fire such a heavy armor piercing round at the destroyer that it doesn't hardly do any damage because the whole round just goes through the ship like a bloat towards New Butter. That's how lightly armored this destroyer is. And yet they did not turn and run. They didn't do what any sensible, like sensible person would do because they knew they had a role to play. They knew they had to be the bodyguard at any cost. The escort carriers had to live. So they just kept fighting

and shooting and fighting and shooting. And they're limping along. And remember this is a ship built for speed. It has no armor. If the speed goes away, you're nothing. Your paper machet out there on the water and the Japanese just started pounding this ship to dust, and they're giving it back as good as they can get it. But then the ship sinks. Commander Evans dies at some point in time after he ordered abandoned ship as the

ship was going into the water. And what happened next is one of the coolest World War Two stories you've probably never heard about. I'll tell you that. It'll take me five seconds, then we'll get back to politics. Okay, before we get to that last little story, let me tell you about Pure Talk. As long as we're talking about service, the inspiration we get from people who fight it blesses me when veterans come back and continue to serve their country in different ways. The CEO of Pure

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so much punishment it sunk beneath the waves. Commander Evans killed, and one hundred and eighty six of its crew and officers. Men and officers died. Three hundred and twenty seven men on the ship. One hundred and eighty six died during this whole, nasty, horrible affair. Now that brings me to a cool story. I've always loved it, just I don't know. It gives me goosebumps. You understand how the Japanese treated Allied prisoners of war and World War two. It was awful.

Roughly twenty five percent of Allied prisoners died in Japanese captivity. They died in Japanese captivity because the Japanese had no respect whatsoever for anybody who surrendered at any point, you were supposed to die for your country that you were taking prisoner, that you were taking prisoner met you were less than human. They showed you no respect. They starved you, they beat you to death, they tortured It was awful.

Everyone knows this, Okay, you got all that. We understand how the Japanese during World War Two treated the defeated. You know what they did as they cruised past the crew of the USS Johnston. Remember there are multiple stories in World War Two of the Japanese machine gunning sailors in the water. They're just run over them with the votes. You know what they did, the US S. Johnston, It's crew, Commander Evans and his crew, they fought like such lions

to the bitter end, with no hope for survival. The Japanese crew of the naval vessel that sailed past them didn't machine gun them. The sailors lined up on the side of the ship and saluted the Americans in the water. Amazing, right, freaking amazing. That is the story of the US S. Johnston and the warriors in the United States Navy who gave their life for this country in World War Two. Pretty cool story. All right, let's get back to some

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