Hello, and welcome to episode 202 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.

My name is Seth Peridon, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby. And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy, former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine U.S.S. Indianapolis, Commodore Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many other assignments. How are you this morning bill i'm doing great south well today we are going to do things a bit different since a great

many of the episodes this season will feature stories of the silent service and the submarine

force by nature was rather clandestine during world war two we figured that while our astute listeners

probably know a good bit about

subs in the Pacific, certainly about some of the personalities like Mushmoreton, Dick O'Kane, people

like that, we would be willing to bet that a great majority of you people don't actually understand

all what went into operating a submarine in the Pacific in the war against Japan.

So to that end, we're going to give you the listener a lesson, a sort of, quote, how to submarine, unquote, or Submarines 101.

And I ain't given you the lesson. So who better to give you the lesson than our very own subskipper, Captain Bill Tody?

Bill, we all know that this is a topic for obvious reasons that is near and dear to your heart.

And submarines weren't just like you see in the movie where you just pull up to the ship and fire a couple of torpedoes and shit goes down and everything happens and you know yay flags waving is it no it isn't

Seth and I really do welcome the opportunity to have this chat one of the things that really

surprised me when I was a very young officer I was still in Ensign when I reported to my first

Los Angeles class submarine was despite the

fact that we were a modern nuclear submarine. So many of the things we still did in the early

1980s were pretty much identical to the way submarines operated in World War II. We leveraged a lot of the lessons

learned from submarine operations in World War II, and we really did try to keep that mindset.

My first and pretty much only home port during my submarine duties were Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the officers, the B.O.Q, Bachelor

Officer Quarter, name was Lockwood Hall. Lockwood Hall had a bar in it called the Clean Sweet

Bar. Nice. And the inner sanctum, the Holy of Holies, you might call it,

inside Lockwood Hall was the Skippers Lounge. And in the Skippers Lounge were the photographs of the

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