Christmas in the Pacific Theater and the Homefront 1941-45

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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In this special episode, Seth and Bill take a look at Christmastime in the Pacific theater and the American homefront during the war years. The guys go through specific times in November and December 41-45 and, as usual, blow apart some of the myths of the home front and get into what the holidays were really like for the men overseas.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to this special episode of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:20.5	My name is Seth Perriden, historian deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.
0:24.8	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toady,
0:28.7	former skipper of the Fast Attack submarine in USS Indianapolis,
0:31.6	Commodore of Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many others.
0:35.0	Malikil Laca, Bill.
0:38.7	Malikaliki Makkah, Maka, Bill. Mele caliki maka to you too, Seth.
0:42.4	For those of you who are from England,
0:45.0	that means Merry Christmas in Hawaiian.
0:47.1	And I am wearing an inappropriately festive shirt.
0:53.2	Wow.
0:53.8	I didn't see the bottom of it until now.
0:55.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:56.3	Awesome.
0:57.8	Given the semi-sweet, poignant kind of bittersweet topic we're going to talk about today, Seth,
1:06.1	but I have a whole closet full of Aloha shirts, as we call them in Hawaii.
1:11.5	We don't call them Hawaiian shirts in Hawaii.
1:14.1	We call them Aloha shirts.
1:15.9	And I don't get to use them very often.
1:18.3	So I figured today was the day.
1:21.5	Yeah, it's very John partialesque, I'm sure what a lot of people are going to say.
1:26.3	Uh-huh, Yeah. Right.
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