Bloody Betio-Tarawa Days 2-3 and Wrap Up

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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4.8 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

This week Bill and Seth wrap up the bloody battle for Betio as they go through days 2 and 3 of the historic fight for Tarawa. Then the team goes into the significance of the Battle of Tarawa and what it's implications held for the remainder of the war and even today.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 228 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:17.5	My name is Seth Perid and historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby.
0:22.2	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy.
0:25.9	Former Skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine USS, Indianapolis, common or submarine squadron 3 at Pearl Harbor, and many other assignments.
0:31.9	How are you this fine morning bill?
0:34.3	I'm doing great.
0:35.3	I'm thinking maybe we don't need to explain to everybody who I am in season three because I heard everybody's heard that so many times. I think they've got to memorize.
0:45.3	I actually have it memorized. I say it in my sleep.
0:49.3	But before we get started, we want to do our cursory reminder to please like and subscribe to our
0:57.3	channel just saying i've noticed the subscriptions going up and we very very much appreciate that
1:03.6	please keep in coming it helps people find our show and we just want to make sure everybody
1:08.9	here's what we have to say whether you like it or not but
1:13.3	but anyway so that's that's the PSA for today so on with the show yeah the good news stuff is that
1:19.0	most people seem to like it um I think we're getting 98% positive uh 1% constructive 1% ignore kind of comments. And so that's not bad. And as we're
1:31.7	recording this today, we are just teetering at that 2 million views, Mark, which is absolutely
1:38.2	phenomenal. We thank you all for that. Very much. Thank you all. If it wasn't for people watching,
1:43.8	it's, you know, Bill and I still wouldn't be doing this. But thank you very much thank you all if it wasn't for people watching it's you know bill and i still wouldn't
1:45.4	be doing this so but but thank you very much for everybody who has tuned in through these last
1:51.6	two seasons all right so on with the show um the first day at batio has passed into memory now
1:59.4	and more like nightmares for those lucky enough to have survived that first day.
2:03.6	The carnage on the beaches was almost indescribable.
2:07.6	Stacks of marine bodies littered the beaches and at positions inland.
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