Green Inferno-The Campaign for Cape Gloucester

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth and Bill take a look at Operation BACKHANDER, better known as the battle for Cape Gloucester that was fought from December 1943 through early 1944. The team examines the short but sharp fight executed by the jungle veterans of the 1st Marine Division as they endured yet another miserable, rain-soaked, hell hole of an island. Tune in and see what the team has to say about this oft-forgotten fight.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 302 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:17.2	My name is Seth Peridon, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.
0:21.0	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy, former skipper of the Fast Tech submarine U.S.S. Indianapolis,
0:27.5	common north submarine squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many other assignments.
0:30.8	How are you this hot morning bill?
0:34.6	I'm doing great.
0:35.6	It's a frigid 87 degrees in Florida.
0:38.9	I think it's a little warmer where you are, Seth.
0:41.3	Indeed.
0:42.1	Indeed.
0:42.7	Yeah, we down here in South Mississippi, South Louisiana are just cooking down here.
0:49.8	Tomorrow's high forecast in Hattiesburg is 106.
0:55.0	106. And that's not even the heat index.
0:56.0	That's the real friggin' temperature.
0:58.0	And we are over it, shall we say.
1:01.0	I'm just ready for fall.
1:04.0	Ready for fall.
1:06.0	Well, before we get started as we have been in most recent episodes,
1:10.0	and we'll probably continue to go forward.
1:11.6	Please, we want to ask you to please like and subscribe to our YouTube channel and like the videos as they come up.
1:18.6	We do appreciate it. It helps you to push our media out to the masses, and we do appreciate that very much.
1:25.6	For this episode specifically, we're going to, even though we're in 1944 right now, we're going to take a step back into 1943 to cover an event that starts in 43, but the vast majority of it actually occurs in 1944.
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