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The Hey, guys, Seth Parenthood and here from the unauthorized History of the Pacific War podcast.

Like we did last week, we're combining two episodes, part one, part two into one long, continuous episode.

And this one is going to be the battle for Wake Island.

For whatever reason, a lot of people watch the first part, but didn't watch the second part. I really don't understand why, because the story does continue. But either way, you get to see the whole thing here. It's a long one, but it's a good one. So, enjoy. Hello, and welcome to episode 525 of the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War podcast. My name is Seth Peridon, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum. And with me, as always,

is my good buddy co-host and author and historian, John Marshall. How are you this fine? September

the 16th. Dude, all right. You know, I was looking back last week on our, uh, our midway footage

episode. And I was like, I was feeling like I was a little flat, you know.

So my goal this week is to is to be a little more scintillating.

You know, I'm just going to up the, which is why I'm wearing, you know, again, the high energy

red, going to get my Japanese special naval landing forces freak on.

You know, so yeah, I'm good.

Oh, the other thing I want to do is also give a shout out.

Oh, there you go.

Yeah, to my old salt friends who very kindly replaced my broken cup.

So here I am, you know, death to decaf.

Granted, I'm drinking high test tea out of this and not coffee. Hope we're still friends. But nevertheless, thank you so much. Yeah, but your wife drinks a coffee, though. Oh, yeah. No, she loves that stuff. Got the gaze gray thing. I'm looking at her right now. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Anyway, she's over there. She's listening, you know? Yeah. There you go.

As little as possible, as she said. Well, I was going to say, I apologize in advance because here we go.

Right. All right. Well, this is a topic, and we're going to break, you know, if you're seeing the opening credits of this, it's already abundantly clear that we're breaking this into two parts, and we're going to break if you've seen the opening credits of this it's already abundantly clear that

we're breaking this into two parts but we're breaking this topic into two parts

because there's a lot to talk about and it's something that people have

wondered why we didn't do it to begin with so we're going to do it here now

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