Hello and welcome to episode 217 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 for

Tired Navy Captain Bill Tody, former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine U.S.S. Indianapolis,

commonwealth of Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor and many other assignments. How are you

this morning, Bill?

Hey, I'm doing great, Seth. And as we open up today, I want to bring everybody's attention to

the fact that the USS Indianapolis Cruiser Legacy Organization has just published a new book.

And I know listeners and viewers of our podcast, there is no shortage of books recommended by them in our comments and to them by others.

But this is a brand new book.

It focuses on the African American crew on the World War II Cruiser, Yosasas, Indianapolis.

The title of the book is Heroes in the Shadows,

and the subtitle is the untold story of the African-American sailors aboard USS Indianapolis.

Now, there are 28 African-American sailors on the cruiser when it was sunk. Not one survived.

Let me say that again. Not one survived. In fact, I had been associated with the cruiser survivors for almost a decade before I learned that, you know, that not any of them survived because nobody, no relatives of the African Americans were coming to the reunions and so on. And in fact, everybody knows the story of Dory Miller. Dory Miller was a crew member on the Indianapolis. He didn't die on the Annapolis. Sadly, he died on another ship. But the point I'm making is this't a very underreported story.

The African-American experience in World War II is a really important book, and I encourage everybody to read it.

We're going to include the link to where you can buy it in the notes for this episode, but I want to encourage everybody to pick up a copy i think you'll find

it very fascinating yep outstanding and books are always a good thing and new books exploring

familiar topics are always fascinating so this is definitely one to be acquired if you have not

done so just yet.

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Don't just watch the videos, but like them and subscribe to our channel as it helps other people find our show and gets our information out to the masses so we would greatly appreciate that so we're going to get to our episode today right now so as we have seen in the last several episodes as a campaign ashore on new georgia has dragged on and on and. The allies slugging it out and trudging

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