Questions and Answers on the Pacific War Round 4 - Episode 539

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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4.9 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth Paridon, Jon Parshall and Shawn Bergstrom tackle more of your listener questions as we wade through round four of the Q&A episodes. Questions dealing with POWs, brutality in the PTO, who was replaceable, hidden conversations, and even the dreaded counter-factuals are tackled in this deep dive. Check it out, maybe your question made the cut.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The I'm The Hello and welcome to episode 539 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War
0:46.7	podcast. My name is Seth Parenthood and historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces
0:50.4	Museum. And with me as always is my co-author co-host co-buddy good buddy all around good
0:57.5	dude wearing the most fantabulous shirt john partial how are you john um well it was the
1:03.1	friday before christmas i am uh i am making my checks mix here because i make really really good
1:10.7	checks mix i got to say and i really good checks mix, I got to say. And I'm humble
1:12.7	about it too. And I know that, you know, since I've been not holding up my end of the
1:18.2	drinking bargain here, and my friend Sean has commented on that, that I am here in full
1:23.2	force on this Friday before Christmas, you know, for this. What are we drinking?
1:28.4	That looks like a... It's just just standard old fashioned, although I'm going...
1:30.8	It looks like an old fashion.
1:31.6	Yeah, half bourbon, half rye in this case.
1:35.3	So, very tasty.
1:36.3	And of course, we have our favorite MC with us here, Sean Bergstrom.
1:44.1	Oh, yeah. That's what I'm talking about
1:46.3	scotch time boys
1:47.8	double scotch time
1:49.2	we're going all out full offensive
1:52.2	Pacific offensive with alcohol
1:54.6	I love it Sean you've had a really good
1:57.1	relaxing afternoon just a few minutes ago haven't you
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