Operation HAILSTONE-The Carrier Raids on Truk with special guest Jon Parshall

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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This week Seth and Bill welcome back guest and good friend Jon Parshall as the trio discusses Operation HAILSTONE, better known as the Carrier Raids on Truk. Following the opening portion of the Marshall Islands campaign, Admiral Spruance brings Marc Mitscher's fast carriers to Truk to absolutely wreak havoc on the supposed "Japanese Pearl Harbor". Tune in and see what the team has to say about the devastating raids.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 304 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:17.6	My name is Seth Perriden, the historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby. And with me, as always, it's my esteemed co-host, retired Navy
0:25.8	Captain Bill Toady, former skipper the Fast Attack Submarine U.S.S. Indianaapolis, common
0:30.0	or submarine squad and free of Pearl Harbor and many other assignments. How are you this
0:33.6	afternoon? Bill.
0:35.4	Doing great, Seth. Just came back from New York where I watched a Broadway play called The Shark is Broken.
0:41.3	It's about the, it's a comedy, actually, but it's about the downtime while they were making
0:48.6	the movie Jaws.
0:50.7	And the reason I'm interested in that, of course, is Jaws, you know, highlighted for most of the
0:57.9	world the story of the USS Indianapolis. And, you know, the, even though it was a 1974 movie
1:04.9	released in 75, it still got most of the history of the Indianapolis correct.
1:11.6	And I wanted to meet the folks who started just to make sure that you understood the difference between what is true and what is not true about Quince Monologue.
1:22.6	They deal with that in play, the writing of Quince Monologue.
1:26.6	And so it was a great time. The play runs until
1:31.4	November, if any of you or of a mind to go see it. It's, again, it's a comedy. It's somewhat
1:37.7	profane, but that's not unlike most Navy stories. So I had, you know, we could deal with that. And I did deal in a video on
1:48.7	USS Indianapolis.com with the, I wouldn't call it objectionable, but the incorrect material
1:55.7	in Quince Monologue. If you're interested in that, you can go there and see that as well, Seth.
2:00.6	So it's kind of a silly interlude. monologue. If you're interested in that, you can go there and see that as well, Seth. So,
2:02.0	it's kind of a silly interlude from our normal, very serious podcast making.
2:09.6	That's okay. It's the USS Indianapolis.
2:13.4	That's right. Exactly. Well, with us this week, and we are always glad to have him, and he has not been with us for a while and we're glad he is back with us and we'll be with us again in some future episodes this season is our fantastic friend and awesome historian John Partial. John, how are you this afternoon?
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