Operation ICEBERG-The Invasion of Okinawa Part 1 with Jon Parshall - Episode 418

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth and Bill welcome good buddy Jon Parshall to discuss the planning and setup for the last great invasion of World War II, the invasion of Okinawa. In this episode the guys get deep into the weeds discussing the origins of the campaign, the American plans for invasion, and the Japanese plans for defense. Japanese General Ushijima, General Cho, and Colonel Yahara are discussed in depth as the team breaks down the intricate Japanese defensive network that starts at Kakazu Ridge. The trio then gets into a passionate discussion on the Okinawan civilians, their treatment at the hands of the Japanese Empire, and the results of that treatment today. The episode wraps as the Americans land on Love Day-Easter Sunday 1945- to discover the beaches undefended. All of these topics set up next week's discussion of the first few weeks of combat as we dive headlong into Operation ICEBERG and the campaign for Okinawa ashore.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 418 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:21.2	My name is Seth Perridden, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.
0:25.5	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-hosts, retired Navy captain Bill Toaddy,
0:29.2	former skipper of the fast attack submarine, U.S.S. Indianapolis, Commodore, Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor and many others.
0:34.2	How are you this fine September 17th, Bill?
0:45.4	I tested negative for COVID, so I'm over that, and my wife found me a John partial wallpaper shirt.
0:46.8	How's it looks, Seth?
0:52.0	It looks good. If you were in John's study, I couldn't see you. I wouldn't be able to see you.
0:52.8	Yeah, exactly. That's beautiful.
0:56.9	And it's nice. I like it. Yeah. Good. Quite evidently, we have our third member of our crew with us today,
1:03.4	our fantastic friend, awesome historian, John Partial. How are you today, John? I'm doing great. Thanks.
1:09.9	Glad to be here with my wallpaper and the whole thing.
1:12.4	I too am, you know, camouflage to be able to blend into the background. I'm always drab. I'm wearing
1:21.2	my Mississippi and Army National Guard polo shirt, so there we go. One of these days again,
1:30.1	we're going to have to pull out the triple Mandelbrot shirt. You know, I thought about that.
1:31.5	I thought about doing that today.
1:33.1	But it was like, do we?
1:35.1	No, we have to coordinate that.
1:36.7	Okay.
1:37.3	Keep that in mind.
1:38.2	We need to make sure that that happens again very, very soon.
1:41.2	We got a lot of episodes, the three of us together coming up. So I sense a wardrobe coordination soon.
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