Admiral King was right about (Almost) everything

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this week's episode, Bill and Seth discuss the enormous contributions of one of the lesser-known personalities of the Pacific War, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Somewhat lost in the overall history of the Pacific War, King played a vital role in the war's planning, strategy and execution. Tune in to see what the team has to say about the forgotten Fleet Admiral.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 111 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:24.4	My name is Seth Peridon, the historian and deputy director here at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum of Camp Shelby.
0:29.3	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy,
0:33.6	former skipper of Fast Tech Submarine U.S.S. Indianapolis, Commodore of Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many other postings.
0:40.2	How are you this morning, Bill?
0:41.4	I'm not feeling very retired this morning, but I am retired, so from the Navy anyway.
0:47.5	I'm doing well, thanks.
0:48.7	That's not necessarily a bad thing, isn't it?
0:50.5	I guess, yeah.
0:51.6	Got to keep on moving.
0:53.3	But today's episode is going to be about Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King.
0:59.4	And with that, I'm going to hand the introduction of this particular episode off to Admiral King's fellow Annapolis alum, Captain Bill, take it away.
1:09.3	Thanks, Seth. Well, Fleet Admiral Ernest King was
1:12.1	Commander-in-Chief or Comanche during most of World War II, and that's of the entire Navy
1:16.6	fleet, Atlantic and Pacific. Now, before King became Comanche, there wasn't a Comanche. In fact,
1:25.8	what we used to call it was Commander-in-chief U.S. fleet or Sinkus, for short, which is ludicrous. It's a ludicrous name. And King changed it to Com-Eng, Commander-in-Chief, rather than Sinkus, much higher quality.
1:45.6	And the Sinkas title would rotate between the Atlantic Fleet Commander
1:49.4	and the Pacific Fleet Commander, whoever those two were senior.
1:54.4	So, for example, before King became Comanche,
1:57.7	Comanche was the Pacific Fleet Commander, Admiral, husband Kimmel.
2:02.6	And then when Kimmel was relieved, and Nimitz was ordered in, well, King was senior to Nimitz.
2:07.6	So King became Comanche and commander of both the Atlantic and, in theory, the Pacific Fleet.
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