Questions and Answers on the PTO Round 5 – Episode 540

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth Paridon, Jon Parshall and Shawn Bergstrom get into more of your listener questions as we take one more dive into the email inbox. Topics range all over the map and are frankly too numerous to list, the conversation is lively, fun and engaging. Hope you made the cut as we round out the q&a’s for this season. Thanks to all of the Nerderati who sent in the amazing questions. We hope we did you proud.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The Hello, welcome to episode 540 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:46.7	My name is Seth Periden, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.
0:50.2	And with me as always is my co-host, good buddy, author and historian, wearing the same shirt as am I.
0:56.5	John Partial, how are you this fine Friday before Christmas?
1:01.5	Vianachten.
1:02.4	Yeah, very night.
1:03.4	I'm good.
1:04.3	I've got the refill of the checks mix.
1:07.0	I got the refill of the old-fashioned.
1:09.9	And episode number two this evening. Let's rock on.
1:13.3	Sean, thanks for being with us. Absolutely.
1:17.2	Yes.
1:18.2	Oldest friend in the world and not the best looking, but he's close. Sean.
1:23.6	Sean Bergstrom, retired Army major. How you you doing, my brother? You're doing good?
1:27.9	All right, man.
1:28.5	I'm ready to rock.
1:29.3	It's Christmas.
1:30.0	Bring the heat.
1:30.4	Let's go.
1:42.6	All right. It's time to launch an offensive in the Ardennes. Let's go. All right. Yeah, that was a few days ago, right? All right. Today's what, the 19th? Today's, We're going to try to stay on track this time, right?
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