Hello and welcome to episode 331 of the unauthorized history of Pacific War podcast.

My name is Seth Perriden, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces history of Pacific War podcast. My name is Seth Perrin,

and historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby.

And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy,

former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine, USS Indianapolis, Commodore Submarine,

and Pearl Harbor, and many other postings. How are you this absolutely gorgeous March

Day in Mississippi, Bill? Yeah, I'm doing great, Seth. I just want to say as we record this on March 28th, we just passed five million views.

What a remarkable milestone. I want to thank all the viewers and listeners for that.

And I got one more comment about our music, but I want you to introduce our guest before I get to that one.

Yep. And introducing our guest is our good friend.

Welcoming him back to the show is the Distinguished Historian, Curators Distinguished Professor of U.S. Military History at Missouri, University of Science and Tech, the author of 15 books, John McManus.

How are you this day?

John, it's been too dang long.

Far too long.

I was going to say I'm doing great because it's always a great day when I get to hang out with you two guys.

So thank you for having me.

Oh, man, it's a pleasure to have you here.

We've got a good topic to talk about. Bill, go ahead and say what you were going to say, you know? Yeah, yeah. So we get a lot of queries and questions about our theme song.

Of course, we do outline the name of the theme song on the base page, the homepage of the overall podcast on YouTube and on, you know, Apple podcast and things like that.

Not in each individual episode, but I continue to get question after question, email after

email about it.

So I'm going to say it.

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