Hello and welcome to episode 309 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.

My name is Seth Perriden, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Own Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby. And with me, as always, is my esteemed

co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy, former skipper, the Fast Stack Submarine,

USS Indianapolis, Commonwealth, Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many other

postings. How are you healing this week, Bill?

Well, Seth, 10 days, i think that's right post-op

with that reattachment of my right rotator cuff here and you get good days and bad days

yesterday was a good day so i had high hopes that i was on the men, but today I'm not so good day.

And it's going to be, I'm trying to keep my energy level up so we can get through this because

we've got an extremely important topic to cover today.

And Seth, I think we've discovered some new material, which is going to, in part, cause me to eat crow as it pertains to my prior statements on Admiral Nimitz.

I made in one of our early episodes.

So I'm going to have to see.

I hope my crow is well done before I eat it.

But it's fantastic that we're always continuing to discover new material and correct false premises, even when some of those

false premises were mine, right, Seth?

You know, I mean, the thing is, is that the more you dive into things, you know,

and I've been doing this a long time, the more you dive into things and the deeper you dig

and some of the stuff that's coming out, you know, I mean, the war's 80 years past-ish,

and depending on what year you're talking about, and, you know, people say, oh, there could never be, how much more new material can you find?

Well, just give me some time, and I'm sure we'll find it.

Because, you know, I mean, I'd never heard of this episode before Friday, and, you know, when I was writing these notes so and we'll get to

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