Command Review of 1943 in the Pacific

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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4.8 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In this first episode of Season 3, Seth and Bill dive into the topic of leaders and leadership during 1943 in the Pacific. The team breaks down the decisions, performances, and personalities of several of the leading figures that factored into the success of 1943 before we get into the climactic year of 1944.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to season three, episode 301 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:19.8	My name is Seth Peridon,
0:24.1	historian and deputy director here at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum and Camp Shelby.
0:28.0	And with me as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy captain Bill Toaddy,
0:31.3	former skipper the Fast Attack Submarine U.S.S. Indianapolis,
0:35.5	commonwealth, Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many other postings. How are you this new season, Bill?
0:44.4	Yeah, so I'm doing great this new season, Seth. And I'm, I want to thank our viewers and listeners about the fact that as we record this today in mid-August, 2023, we just passed two million
0:53.6	YouTube views, which is an incredible milestone.
0:57.5	So again, this little podcast that you and I started thinking it would last a couple
1:03.0	months, then nobody would watch and we'd give up on it.
1:07.1	I guess I'm incredibly surprised, but also very gratified that there is an audience for this
1:14.6	important content dealing with World War II since it essentially isn't taught in school anymore.
1:20.2	I'm glad somebody's watching.
1:23.1	Yeah, you know, to your, I'll echo your statements and that, you know, I had doubts that it would last as long as it has, not that we've even been on the earth that long.
1:33.3	It's just we've done a lot of material.
1:35.5	And I'm very grateful to everybody who watches and or listens or both or whatever, whatever the case may be.
1:42.3	And I think it just goes to show you that if you provide
1:45.1	good, accurate material, people are going to watch, you know, regardless of whether or not
1:50.6	you get to look at my face every week or not. But people will watch if you provide good material.
1:58.0	And that's been the overall goal of our show, Bill.
2:01.0	And I know we'll say the same thing since we started is to not myth busting per se,
2:07.3	but, you know, bust the miss when they are there, but provide accurate, detailed history.
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