A Discussion on Guadalcanal Leadership with special guest Jon Parshal

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This week Seth and Bill sit down with returning guest and pal, Jon Parshall to discuss some of the men who led the Guadalcanal campaign, from both sides...for better or for worse. Tune in to see what the trio has to say about Admirals Ghormley, Halsey, Fletcher, Nagumo, Yamamoto, Turner and the rest.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 121 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast. My name is Seth Parrott and historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Cam Shelby. And with me as always, it's my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy, former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine, Indianapolis, Commodore of Submarine Squadron 3 in Harbor, and many other postings. How are you this afternoon?
0:38.2	Doing well, Seth. Outstanding. And yet again, and once again,
0:42.4	and we're very grateful to have him, our good friend, outstanding historian, John,
0:46.9	partial John. How are you this afternoon? I am great. Lovely to be here.
0:51.6	We are going to take a step back from the battlefront for a minute.
0:56.5	We've been hitting Guadalcanal and Midway and Coral Sea and everything else, hard, hard, hard, lots of gun shooting here.
1:04.1	We're going to take a step back a little bit. And we're going to go into the backwaters, if you will, and discuss some of the leaders of Watchtower.
1:10.0	Now, we're not necessarily talking about Admiral King,, Admiral King, although his name will come up. Inevitably, it always does. We're going to talk about the men who made the decisions that affected men's lives and that affected this campaign for better or worse throughout the entirety of this campaign on both sides. There's a lot of personalities to discuss,
1:31.3	but there's several that kind of rise to the top of the heap, if you will. One to me,
1:38.6	personally, professionally, is a guy named Gormley. I'm going to pass it off to you.
1:45.0	Lay it on us about Gormley.
1:47.0	What did he do previous to this?
1:49.0	Well, yes, Seth, but I want to step back and say that on the 8th of May,
1:54.0	commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer eased her through the Bospra Strait
2:00.0	into the Black Sea and headed due north.
2:02.4	Now, this is the Black Sea, not the Pacific, where we normally talk about.
2:07.0	That commander's destination was Odessa, a large port on Ukraine's southern coast.
2:13.4	Once known for its beaches and architecture, the city is now crumbling, blighted by war.
2:19.8	The destroyer's CEO was headed there to do something about the problem.
2:24.4	He was escorting a relief ship carrying food steps and medical supplies for the Ukrainians.
2:31.4	The ship would soon dock and the captain would confer with local authorities about allocating those goods.
2:38.0	He knew this would not be easy.
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