Commerce Destruction-The Battle of the Bismarck Sea with Jon Parshall

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This week guest co-host Jon Parshall joins Seth for a discussion on one of the more important, if not lesser known, events of the Pacific War in 1943, the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Seth and Jon break down the ins and outs of the epic aerial destruction of an entire Japanese convoy at the hands of the Royal Australian Air Force and GEN Kenney's 5th Air Force in New Guinea.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 207 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:17.8	My name is Seth Peridon, historian and deputy director here at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum. And with me, but not with me, today is my esteemed co-host, Bill Toaddy, former Skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine, USS, Indianapolis, Commodore Submarine Squadron 3 at Pearl Harbor, many other assignments just before anybody has a coronary. Bill is perfectly fine. He's completely healthy. He is doing, he's performing a
0:39.4	task today that no one in their right mind wants to do, but he has to do. He's moving. He's moving
0:45.0	his home. So we'd asked John to be on the show on this particular episode anyway, and today
0:51.1	he's going to be acting once again as my fill-in co-host.
0:56.3	Please join us and welcoming back, our good friend and fantastic historian, the one, the only
1:01.6	John Partial. How are you today, John? I am great. It's just you, me, and my notorious wallpaper
1:07.4	today. But I'm looking forward to being your wingman.
1:11.6	So.
1:12.6	Excellent.
1:13.6	And we got some pretty cool topics to talk about today.
1:14.6	We have some amazing aircraft we're going to discuss today and some significantly devastating tactics.
1:21.6	With that being said, this week, John and I are going to dive into an event that is widely unknown, in my opinion, anyway, and unappreciated in the realm of World War II Pacific history, specifically the combat history in and around the island of New Guinea.
1:35.3	It's one of the rare instances in the Pacific War in which a battle was fought that was almost completely one-sided.
1:42.3	To set the stage, the time period is March 1943.
1:46.0	The location is a southwest Pacific area, specifically, the waters off New Guinea's
1:50.5	southeastern coast.
1:52.6	Allied air strength in the region had grown exponentially since the fall of Boona in January
1:56.9	in 1943.
1:58.3	In only two months, the aerial strength of General George Kinney's fifth air force
2:01.6	had doubled and damn near tripled in size and strength. Kinney's forces had become just that,
2:07.7	a force to be reckoned with, and one that the Japanese grossly underestimated in terms of
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