Like Three Haystacks on Fire, with special guest Jon Parshall

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth Paridon and Captain William Toti present the 2nd of 3 episodes on the Battle of Midway. As with Episode 8, this one features guest Jon Parshall, one of the most highly respected historians of the Pacific War.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 109 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:23.0	My name is Seth Peridon, historian and deputy director of Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby.
0:28.1	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy,
0:32.5	former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine U.S.S. Indianapolis, Commodore Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor,
0:37.9	and many other postings. Good morning, Bill. Good morning, Seth. This week, Bill and I have a
0:44.3	return guest with us. And as such, I would like to welcome back my friend, an amazing historian,
0:48.8	John Parshal. John, how are you this morning? Oh, living the dream. Aren't we all?
0:56.6	Carrying myself away from Ukraine, you know, for long enough to talk about the Pacific War. So yeah, yeah. It's a distraction.
1:01.7	Good week for Ukraine as well, though. So if you listen last week as we set up the battle we were
1:07.8	about to discuss, we left you as the sun was setting on the night of
1:11.0	June 3rd, 1942, or as the sun set on the night of June 3rd. A lot has happened over the last
1:16.6	few hours. PBY Catalina's from Midway have discovered the incoming Japanese invasion fleet
1:20.8	and have attacked it successfully somewhat, with of all things, a PBY that dropped a torpedo.
1:26.5	And we'll get the torpedoes in a little bit.
1:28.5	That being said, the nighttime torpedo attack does not turn the invasion fleet away.
1:32.9	Surprise, surprise, the train keeps on chugging along.
1:36.8	So with that, and because we got a ton to talk about today, we're going to pick up right where we left off,
1:42.1	right around 0300 hours on June 4th aboard the Japanese and American carriers.
1:48.0	John, what is it looking like on the Japanese carriers right now?
1:53.6	They are up very early this morning.
1:56.1	A lot of the hangar crewmen are probably up around 0.2.30.
1:59.9	The pilots will probably sleep a little bit later
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