Special Episode: Captain Toti's Pearl Harbor (Part 1)

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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4.8 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week Bill takes you on a tour of Pearl Harbor, to include Admiral Kimmel's office (with a great revelation regarding Admiral Nimitz), the site of the HA-19 midget submarine grounding, the spot where midget submarine I-22 tau was sunk in Pearl Harbor, Lockwood Hall to include the Clean Sweep Bar and the Skipper's Lounge, the site of Station Hypo, USS Missouri, and various other sites at Pearl Harbor. Join us next week for Part 2 of Captain Toti's Pearl Harbor. PS-- this is our version of "Operation Shoestring" where we try to do on location video podcasts on a shoestring budget, complete with audio problems! The good news is that we learned from this and future attempts will be better.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Captain Bill Tody, co-host of the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War podcast,
0:05.6	and I'm excited to be on the USS Missouri here.
0:09.7	And this episode, we're going to do a tour of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,
0:14.6	and take you some places that you obviously do recognize the USS Missouri,
0:19.7	and we're going to take you some places that you may not recognize.
0:23.4	Hope you enjoy this episode of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War. The historic Royal Hawaiian Hotel, some of America's most famous people stayed here, including
0:59.4	President Roosevelt himself.
1:01.5	But more to the point of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War, this is the place that
1:06.2	World War II submarines would come during off patrol.
1:09.9	So this is historic as it pertains to World
1:12.8	War II. And I'm going to take you here and to other sites in and around Pearl
1:17.7	Harbor. So if you watch PBS and you've seen Rick Steves Europe, this week we're
1:23.3	bringing you Captain Tote's Pearl Harbor. The first place we want to bring you is my old
1:28.4	office, been in World War II during the attack on Pearl Harbor, it was Admiral Husband Kimmel's
1:33.4	office, and we have a wonderful surprise for you, and we can call this a great reveal. So here we go to
1:40.9	submarine-based Pearl Harbor to Admiral Kimmel's office.
1:51.0	So in the early days of submarine base, the guy that was sent here to actually build the base
1:55.0	1919 was a then commander Chester Nimitz.
2:00.0	At the time he came here, this whole area was covered with cactus and Alba Gorda trees.
2:05.6	And the first thing you had to do is clear the trees.
2:07.6	One of the first buildings that was built was a battery combination battery torpedo shop.
2:14.6	And that building still exists around the corner here. This building was actually built after Nimitz left his assignment.
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