Operation VENGEANCE-Killing Yamamoto

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This week Seth and Bill dissect the mission to assassinate the Japanese Commander in Chief Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto. The team digs deep into the codebreaking that led to the mission as well as the execution of the mission by pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron in their P-38s.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 208 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:18.0	My name is Seth Parrott and historian and deputy director here at the
0:21.1	Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby. And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host
0:25.6	retired Navy Captain Bill Toady, former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine, U.S.S.
0:29.7	Indianapolis, Commodore Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many other assignments.
0:33.8	How are you this week, Bill?
0:36.3	This week I'm getting better there um steth i'll tell you
0:40.2	my wife and i made number 16 move move number 16 of our married life and we're approaching our 40th
0:49.4	wedding anniversary and um so we're in the new house and you can imagine there's a bit of an echo in here
0:55.9	because I have a room that's dedicated to doing this, but it's not fully set up. But when we moved
1:02.3	in, I said, we're going to set up the kitchen so we can eat. We're going to set up our bedroom
1:06.4	so we can sleep. But then I need to get the studio put together because I have a podcast to record
1:12.1	on Tuesday. She wasn't too thrilled about that. But other than the echo, which will resolve
1:19.8	as soon as I get the echo dampening stuff in here, some furniture, for example, I'm doing
1:25.2	better than I have a right to expect at this point, Seth.
1:31.0	Well, God bless you for moving, as we said last week, it's an unenviable task for anyone.
1:36.6	I don't care where you're moving to or from.
1:39.5	So, well, this week, we're going to break down a single mission.
1:42.9	This one mission factored heavily in how the remainder of the Pacific War played out in the immediate and long-term future.
1:50.0	One mission in which the ultimate revenge, at least on the part of the United States Navy, was issued to the man who orchestrated the attack on Pearl Harbor and who was seen by many within the U.S. military as the main reason the United States was in the war in the first place.
2:03.6	That man, of course, was and is Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto.
2:08.6	The assassination of Yamamoto, and that is exactly what it was, by the way, was a precisely planned operation that had many moving parts,
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