Tassafaronga and the Guadalcanal Campaign Wrap Up

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week Bill and Seth "put a bow" on the Guadalcanal campaign, tying up loose ends, giving a brief overview of the Battle of Tassafaronga, while also giving the overall perspective of the tide-turning campaign in the Pacific war in this final episode of Season 1. Bill and Seth also give a preview of what's coming up next in Season 2 as the podcast, and the Pacific War, progress into 1943.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 125 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:23.9	My name is Seth Peridon, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi on Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby.
0:28.7	And with me, as always, is retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy, former skipper of the Fast Tech submarine USS, Indianapolis, Commodore, Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor, and many other postings. How are you this afternoon? Bill?
0:40.3	I'm doing great. I think, you know, people are going to get tired of hearing that intro.
0:45.3	It's from us.
0:47.3	You need to come up with something new.
0:49.3	You know, maybe shorten it.
0:52.3	Yeah.
0:53.3	Really happy to be here to close out the Guadal Canal campaign,
0:58.0	at least until we decide we need to revisit it at some future date.
1:02.0	Which I'm sure we will.
1:04.0	I'm sure we will.
1:05.0	Yeah, you know, and this is not our normal structured episode.
1:10.0	You know, there's a few things we want to talk
1:12.0	about few loosings you want to tie up here before we do officially move on to another topic and
1:17.9	or not topic but a new subject area within the pacific war but um you know we did a ton of episodes on guala
1:25.8	canal i mean a shipload of episodes on guadalcanal, I mean, a shipload of episodes on Guadalcanal.
1:30.1	They deserve it.
1:31.3	You do Guadalcanal deserves.
1:33.0	And the soldiers and Marines and sailors that fought there.
1:36.2	Yeah, it does.
1:37.3	And, you know, even with all the episodes that we did and all the detail that we dove into all these different events, you know, there's still a lot of
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