Hello, welcome to episode 206 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.

My name is Seth Parrott and the historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby. And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy. A former skipper of the Fast Tech submarine USS Indianapolis, Commodore of Submarine Squadron 3 at Pearl Harbor, as well as many other assignments. How are you this morning, Bill? I'm doing great, Seth, and I'm really excited to talk about the guy who more than anybody else caused me to join the submarine force.

It's going to be a great episode today.

It is. It is, absolutely.

And aside from Bill and I, those who are watching probably see him on the screen right now.

We are very happy to have

our new guest with us today uh you've probably heard or seen him seen him at least on his

youtube channel i'm very very sure um he provides excellent doses of in-depth doses of naval history

which is uh near and dear to bill and eyes hard here and uh we are very glad to have him we'd

like to welcome

Drack and Felt to our show. Drac, welcome aboard. And thanks for, thanks for being here.

I'm happy to be here. I'm looking forward to this. Yeah, we got a so many of your videos and never

seen what you look like. So that's a particular. Yeah, you'll usually only find what i look like either on

live streams or the occasional one we're actually going visit a place most of most of the time i'm

the voice but a great voice and a great voice for naval history so glad to have you absolutely you've done quite a bit

here in the last few years to propel the you know the subject of naval history into pop into more

popular media than in the past and yeah we're very appreciative of of your efforts and getting our

subject matter out there to the to the masses well so again

we're going to start off this week we're talking about a very important topic a very important

individual very important vessel and we'll dot we'll just jump right into it here so you know as

the submarine wahoo pushed through the waters of the Pacific upon completion of our fifth war patrol, headed from Merrill Island in the United States, a message came through address to the executive officer of the boat.

The young lieutenant commander opened a message and read it.

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