The Bar Room Brawl-November 13, 1942 with special guest Jon Parshall

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth and guest co-host Jon Parshall break down the chaotic melee that was the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Known as the Bar Room Brawl, the battle that occurred on Friday the 13th of November 1942 was one of the more heroic, if not confounding, sea battles in US Navy history. Tune in to watch as Seth and Jon break down this epic naval slugfest.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 122 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:23.6	My name is Seth Peridon, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby.
0:29.6	And with me as always is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Tody, except for this week, he's not.
0:35.6	Bill isn't here today as he is recovering from minor surgery he
0:38.6	is fine he is on the mend we miss him and wish him well and we'll see him more than likely next
0:43.7	week uh this week we are delighted to have with us again historian and buddy john partial who is
0:49.0	acting as co-host whether he likes it or not as well as commentary today how. How are you, John? I'm very well.
0:55.5	Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. We got a lot of talk about today. So we're going to get right to it.
1:02.1	The hectic and high stakes month of October 1942 has finally wound down and passed into history.
1:08.5	And with it, the lives of nearly 400 Americans at the battles of Henderson
1:11.6	Field and Santa Cruz, and an astonishing figure of nearly 3,500 Japanese lives at those same events.
1:20.6	The Japanese have thrown their very best efforts at Guadalcanal in October, both ashore and
1:24.9	offshore, and have come up short. The devastating defeat ashore
1:29.7	Battle of Henderson Field was followed by a tactical victory, but strategic defeat,
1:33.9	man, flip-flop, whatever you want to say, offshore at Santa Cruz and has left the Japanese
1:39.2	in no better position than they were in August, just thousands of lives shorter. As November dawns, Guadalcanal is still a hotbed of activity.
1:48.0	Fighting on the ground has eased off in intensity somewhat, but it is still a fairly constant struggle.
1:54.0	Although nowhere near as bad as the previous several months have been, but the Japanese aren't done yet either.
2:00.0	At sea, however, the Japanese are
2:02.7	also not through with their efforts to both smash the American fleet and destroy Henderson
2:06.8	Field. The Japanese will try several more times this month, specifically twice in back-to-back
2:13.4	nights. The first of these epic naval clashes occurs on of all dates Friday the 13th.
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