Task Force 58 Under Attack 1943-45 Archival Footage – Episode 548
The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War
Captain William Toti, USN
4.9 • 872 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 108 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The The |
| 0:23.6 | The Hello and welcome to episode 548 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast. |
| 0:47.2 | My name is Seth Perid and historian and deputy director of the Mississippi on Forces Museum. |
| 0:50.6 | And with me as always is my co-host author and historian good buddy john partial how are you |
| 0:55.1 | this February the 25th john i'm doing all right i just found out this morning there's been a little |
| 1:01.7 | monkey wrench in the index for my book that i'm going to get to clean up over the next few days |
| 1:07.8 | but uh we got time we can make this happen did you write the index or are they doing that for you? |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, they're supposed to be doing that for me. And it came back this morning and they're like, let's just say that there are some things that need to be fixed, you know. And so, yeah. Anyway. At least you don't have to write at all. Yeah. And I did that for Shattered Sword. and that was a massive pain in the patootie. |
| 1:27.9 | So I've got a framework here that we can start with. |
| 1:30.9 | It's all going to be good. And how's your man Gunther? He's doing good. He's doing good, as you will know. He got bit by some sort of venomous spider yesterday, so he's not feeling up to par, but the antibiotics are coursing through his veins. |
| 1:44.9 | Yes. |
| 1:45.3 | And he's being very obstinate because he wants to go outside, but that just ain't happening |
| 1:49.1 | because he's laid down behind me right now. |
| 1:51.2 | But other than that, he's doing fine. |
| 1:53.0 | So last week, on the episode that aired last week, I told a bold-faced lie and said that |
| 1:59.1 | this is going to be, this one is going to be our last episode of the season. It ain't. Surprise, surprise. I love bold-faced lies, yeah. So we got this week, we got next week, and then we're off for a bit. Right. But because we didn't really prep too much for this, we decided we'd do an archival, as you can see. So we've got some... Our audience at this point is like, oh, archival footage. They were feeling lazy this week. Yeah, well, you know. Yeah, but we did prep a little bit for this one. So there is a little prep. But this is some wicked cool footage, some of which people have seen. And now you'll get the inside scoop, as it were. |
| 2:34.7 | Yes. We love that. All right, so forgive me for the little thing down here is really nothing I going to do about that. |
| 2:43.0 | Yeah. And this, the timeline here, and it just, it is what it is. It is what it is. |
| 2:48.0 | It is what it is. But we're going to see some really, really cool footage. |
| 2:51.9 | What we're about to see is the United States ship, Washington, BB 56. |
| 2:59.0 | Yeah, boy. |
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