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I'm Hello and welcome to this long episode of the unauthorized history Pacific War podcast.

My name is Seth Parenthood and historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.

And John is not here, obviously, but usually at the end of each season we'll take some of our

longer episodes like part one part two or whatever the case may be and we combine them into one

super episode if you will and that's exactly what we're doing here with Pearl Harbor this is the

first raid Pearl Harbor the first raid this the first two episodes we did on that

particular aspect of the Pearl Harbor attack so please is the first two episodes we did on that particular aspect of the

Pearl Harbor attack so please enjoy. Hello and welcome to episode 517 of the unauthorized

history of the Pacific War podcast. My name is Seth Ferran, historian and deputy director of the

Mississippi Armed Forces Museum and with me as always is my co-host. Good buddy, John Parshal. How are you

this fine July 22nd, John?

I'm hanging in there. Yeah, as you know, I suffered a computer crash over the weekend and had to go

out and buy myself a new box. And, yeah, so I'm in the process of hauling down terabytes worth of cloud backups from the old

machine and reinstalling all the applications and I'm deep in the editing for the

1942 thing and it's just yeah my hair is on fire and I don't even have any hair so yeah I'm

clearly it's on fire because it's not there. It's gone. Yeah. Anyway. It's gone. So this will be good. A little distraction, a little chat about Pearl Harbor. Indeed. Yeah. We've been building up to this for crying out loud, I don't know, weeks. Yeah, weeks and weeks and weeks.

So here we go.

This is going to be the beginning of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

So the warships cleaved through the seas at 24 knots.

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