Special Episode: Touring the National WWII Museum's Pacific Galleries

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, Seth takes you through the National WWII Museum's Road to Tokyo Pacific galleries. Seth was a chief historian at the WWII Museum for 15 years and was one of the key contributors to the construction of the WWII Museum's campus. In this special episode, he takes you on a quick 40,000 foot view of the Pacific side of the museum.

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0:00.0	Well, Seth, where the heck are we?
0:18.2	We are at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, my home away from home
0:22.9	for 15 years.
0:24.4	And we are here at the 16th annual international conference on World War II.
0:29.6	Let me see.
0:30.6	It doesn't say it on there, but that's where we are.
0:31.6	That's what we're here for.
0:33.6	I think so.
0:34.6	It's been a good show so far.
0:36.6	Today is Friday, December the 8th, 2023. You got in late
0:41.4	last night. I was here earlier in the day yesterday and then all day today. We're going to take
0:48.0	you guys through some of the exhibits and Road to Tokyo, which is in the Campaign's Pavilion
0:53.2	here at the National World War II Museum. Road to Tokyo, obviously appropriate for our show, so that's what we're
0:58.5	going to do. If you ever have the opportunity, come check this place out. Yeah, now that's
1:03.3	one of how many three pavilions here at the museum? Oh, God. I don't even remember anymore. So you
1:07.9	got over there across the street, you have the original pavilion, the original building,
1:12.6	which was a brewery.
1:13.5	I always have to point that out because it says New Orleans, you know.
1:15.9	That's where the original D-Day galleries are.
1:17.7	That's where the home front galleries are now, which we called, the museum calls the Arsenal of Democracy,
1:25.3	and it talks about just that.
1:26.8	The Arsenal of Democracy covers Pearl Harbor, follow the Philippines, all that really
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