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The Hello, I'm welcome to episode 520 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.

My name is Seth Perid and historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.

And with me, as always is my co-host. Good buddy, historian and author,

John Partial, how are you this fine, hot July day? I am battling various, various publication-related

things and in great need of bourbon. But since that's not going to happen for a few days, we'll just have to power through it. I'm great. It's lovely to see you. Same here. And what doesn't kill you? It will only make you stronger. So just keep going. So, all right. So as you can probably tell by our layout, we're going to do another footage episode today. And yeah, I know these are fun. They're really cool.

And I'm going to bring the material up here in just a second, but just to give you all a quick idea of what we're going to be looking at. We're going to be looking at U.S. Navy, excuse me, archival footage from February, 1942, through the Battle of Coral Sea. And there's obviously a lot of things that happen in between. or we've already done do little raid.

But this is going to be your Marshall Islands raid stuff.

This is going to be like in that time period. And then as I said, Coral Sea and kind of everything in between, if you will. There's some really, really, really neat stuff in here that I believe a lot of people haven't seen before or if they have, they haven't put two and two together

as to what it is they're looking at.

So we're gonna reveal that here in a second.

All right.

So, John, were you able to decipher exactly,

according to my narrow notes,

this here ship is the big E. And these are, like we were looking at you were, I know you were looking at the footage yesterday and we were talking back and forth. And there's some of that typical U.S. Navy E. Rata in the footage, which going to, which brings me to my point before actually, I want to get started. I want to call somebody out real quick. Yeah. So pardon the interruption, guys. So the last time before last, we did a footage episode. We did one on the Pearl Harbor salvage operations. And if you were recall, and I'll put it, I'll lay it over here, there was a shot of an SBD landing at Cani OI. And we were dorking out because we thought, oh, this is SBD, this is, you know,

such and such and this. Goldsmiths and it's a Bored Yorktown and everything because the numbers

match and all this. Well, we were wrong. So I talked to a good friend of mine, Mark Poole, who

admittedly, we did talk before. We agreed that it was bombing six. But he came back and he said, no, it ain bombing six but he came back and he said no it ain't

and he came back with conclusive proof that that is most certainly not bombing six because bombing six at

that time was aboard enterprise and the only SBD unit that was at can aoi at that time was none

other than bombing three and that particular aircraft B-15 was flown by Bunyan Cooner.

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