Special Episode: Captain Toti's Pearl Harbor (Part 2)

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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4.8 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

This week Bill takes you on a tour of Pearl Harbor, to include USS Bowfin, the Pacific Submarine Force Museum, and the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum. 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	I'm Captain Bill Tody, and this week's episode I'm coming to you from the historic Royal Hawaiian Hotel.
0:29.6	This week we're bringing you Captain Tody's Pearl Harbor.
0:33.6	No visit to Pearl Harbor is complete without a visit to the Pacific Submarine Force Museum
0:39.3	at the historic sites of Pearl Harbor where the USS Bowfin is housed.
0:45.3	So we visit with Chuck Merkel, who's been featured on one of our other podcasts,
0:51.3	and we're going to tour the USS Bowfin in a way that you would not be able to do otherwise and the Pacific submarine force museum.
1:03.0	Unfortunately, at this point in the podcast recording, I suffered a rookie mistake when the battery on my lapel microphone died,
1:13.3	so you're going to have difficulty hearing me. It's picked up a bit on Chuck's microphone.
1:18.7	Good news is the important information is provided by Chuck, and his microphone work fine.
1:23.8	So I apologize for that, but let's press on.
1:27.2	We're with Chuck Merkel here today.
1:29.3	He is the executive director.
1:31.0	Executive director of both the USS Bowkinson and the Pacific Submarine Force Museum.
1:38.6	Yeah, right?
1:39.0	Yes.
1:39.5	Okay.
1:40.1	And you'll remember, Chuck, from our episode on the Submarine Medal of Honor recipients from World War II, where we went through a bunch of those.
1:48.0	That was a great time, Chuck.
1:49.0	Yeah, thanks.
1:49.6	Yeah, I enjoyed it, too, Bill.
1:50.7	Yeah, Chuck was here in Hawaii, and I was in Florida when we reported that.
1:53.9	Seth was in, you know, Mississippi.
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