Halsey's Carrier Raids on Kure Naval Harbor with Jon Parshall-Episode 435

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth and guest co-host Jon Parshall (Bill had tech issues) dig into the final major US Naval action of World War II. In July 1945, Admiral William F. Halsey brings his 3rd Fleet to the very shores of Japan to destroy infrastructure, shipping, airfields, ad the remnants of the once mighty Imperial Japanese Navy. Over a period of two days, July 24 and July 28, 3rd Fleet aviators pummel what is left of the IJN right at its home base--Kure. Carriers Amagi, Katsuragi, battleships Ise, Hyuga and Haruna, as well as several other battle-hardened and famous Japanese warships meet their end in the final sweep against the Japanese Navy in WWII.

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to episode 435 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:42.7	My name is Seth Paredin, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum,
0:47.3	and not with us today for technical reasons, unfortunately, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy captain Bill Tody,
0:53.9	former skipper of the Fastmarine USS Indianapolis,
0:56.5	Commodore Submarines, Squadron 3, and others.
0:59.0	I would ask you how you are, Bill, but you're not here.
1:02.0	And Bill would say I'm having all sorts of technical and audio problems,
1:06.5	and my internet bandwidth is for crap,
1:09.4	and so it just turned into a dumpster fire and I bailed.
1:13.2	And so that's why we're too manning this.
1:16.5	We are two manning it.
1:17.6	And obviously, John is with us today.
1:19.9	John, how are you this January the 28th?
1:22.4	Doing a lot better than Bill.
1:24.0	So, yeah, I'm going to pick it up.
1:26.5	I'm going to do it for my man bill.
1:28.4	You know, I said this not long ago. He had a technical issue before. All the episodes we've
1:32.9	recorded, we've only, this is only the third time that we've had a technical issue. So that's
1:36.5	not really bad, frankly, if you really want to be technical about it. No pun intended.
1:41.9	So let's get into it, because this is going to be an interesting episode, I believe.
1:46.5	Let's just start off where we want to.
1:49.0	So the closest he had gotten to Japan was in April, 1942, some 700 miles away from the coast.
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