The Battle of Midway in Perspective with special guest Jon Parshall

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week, Seth, Bill and returning special guest Jon Parshall, put a bow on the Battle of Midway and put the important US victory into perspective. In the ensuing discussion, the trio explains why Midway is NOT the turning point of the Pacific War, and what the US victory actually did for the US war effort in the Pacific theater.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 110 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:22.1	My name is Seth Peridon, historian, the deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby.
0:27.4	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host retired Navy Captain Bill Toadie, former skipper of the Fast Attack, Submarine USS, Indianapolis, Commodore of Submarine Squadron 3, and Pearl Harbor, and many other postings.
0:39.0	How are you, Bill?
0:39.8	I'm doing well, Seth.
0:55.3	Excellent. For the third week in a row, we have R. Pallan historian John Partial on the show with us. John, how are you doing this morning? I am very well. Thanks. Very, very good. Very good. This week we were going to, as I said last week, we're going to put a bow on the Battle of Midway.
0:54.7	Our first two episodes on Midway covered the preparation for the great event
0:59.0	as well as the meat of the battle, all of or most of which occurred on June 4th, 1942.
1:05.3	Now, while the meat, as I said, occurred on June 4th, the battle did not actually end for another
1:09.7	few days. The action on June 5th, such battle did not actually end for another few days. The action on
1:11.7	June 5th, such as it was, was nothing if not anticlimactic. After all the fighting that happened
1:19.0	the previous day, all the successful attacks that happened the previous day, the air
1:23.1	groups of Enterprise and Hornets searched for and did not find anything of any real value that remained of the Japanese fleet.
1:29.8	What they did find, however, was a destroyer, a lone destroyer that suffered under one of the largest aerial onslaughts on a single vessel yet executed by the U.S. Navy, only to emerge completely unscathed.
1:42.9	With that being said, we're going to pick up the story on June 6th and wrap this beast up.
1:49.9	June 6th, because like I said, June 5th was completely anticlimactic.
1:55.7	June 6th had a little more action to it.
1:59.3	You know, the carrier forces are catching up to what's left of the Japanese
2:03.1	fleet and they run into a couple of cruisers that actually ran into one another earlier
2:07.8	in that night or the early morning, did they not?
2:10.6	Yeah, they had collided actually with each other on the night of 4th, 5th June.
2:16.4	This was elements of Cruiser Division 7, a quartet of heavy cruisers that were
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