Hey, guys, this is Seth from the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War podcast. Bill and I have wrapped up season 3, 1944, and we have gotten a lot of requests to combine the episodes

in the Battle of Surgaal Strait and the battle off Samar into one.

We did two episodes apiece for those two pivotal and you know very very famous naval battles so we have

been asked to combine those by a lot of you guys which is find us cool into one episode each one

for samar one for surrogile so that's what we're going to do for the next two weeks as bill

and i prepare for season four as we get into 1945.

There's a lot of stuff we want to do.

It's a lot of stuff we want to talk about,

a lot of things we want to get to,

and frankly, we're preparing.

It takes a long time to do that kind of stuff.

So we're not cheaping and out on you

by throwing these two weeks in here,

but we thought we would respond to the requests

and do that very thing.

So this week, we're going to do Suragall Strait, and next week we're going to do some more.

My name is Seth Parrotton, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum

here at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and with me is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toadie,

former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine USS, Indianapolis, Commodore of Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor and many other postings. How are you this fine? March 5th morning, Bill.

I'm doing great, Seth. And before we begin, I want to make, I want an announcement, public service announcement.

For you, Annapolis graduates, Seth and I will be doing a session the afternoon of April 25th at the Naval Academy Alumni Association in Annapolis, the new headquarters.

We will share registration details later, but the event will be open to midshipment and graduates. So if you're in the Annapolis area on April 25th and

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