The Battle of the Komandorski Islands with special guest Admiral Sam Cox

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This week Bill and Seth are joined once again by Naval History and Heritage Command Director, Rear Admiral sam Cox, to discuss the little-known and often-forgotten naval battle of the Komandorski Islands. The trio break down the 4-hour long old school naval gunnery duel in the frigid waters of the North Pacific during the Aleutian Islands campaign of 1943.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 223 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:16.5	My name is Seth Perriden, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby.
0:21.5	And with me, as always, is my esteemed co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy, former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine U.S.S. Indianaapolis, Commodore of Submarine Squadron 3 in Pearl Harbor and many other postings. Welcome back, Bill, from your extended vacation. And how are you? I'm doing fine, Seth.
0:37.9	You know, when we, this is going to air about a month
0:40.6	after the incident with the titan and i missed last week's recording with john partial because of that
0:47.4	i ended up doing eight or nine spots on different tv stations in the united States and Canada about to tighten.
0:56.4	I've seen some comments asking opinions.
0:59.8	I'm actually kind of all opinioned out on that episode and I'm happy to jump back into the core
1:08.6	work here with World War II's in the Pacific War. So I'm glad to be back.
1:13.3	Well, we'd also like to welcome back. Another guest that we've had on previously,
1:18.7	retired Admiral Sam Cox. Bill, you know Sam better than I do. I'm going to let you do the
1:24.5	introduction to Admiral Cox, but we're always very happy to have him here.
1:28.3	And thank you, Admiral, for being with us again today.
1:31.3	Yeah, well, and like me, Admiral Cox is a real historian, you know, like Seth, I would say.
1:39.3	And, you know, he's an Annapolis grad like me, I think a little younger than me, but we won't hold that against him.
1:46.9	I don't think he had a plea beer.
1:48.7	But Admiral Cox is a true historian.
1:51.2	He's the chief historian in the Navy, and he's the director of Naval History and Heritage Command.
1:56.1	And so he's just, I've known him for years, and it's a great pleasure to have him in a position at Navy History and Heritage Command because he's brought so much common sense to that assignment.
2:08.9	And we are so happy to have him back to talk about an important issue today is something that's kind of not talked about very much during World War about the Pacific War.
2:19.3	So Admiral Cox, welcome back.
2:21.3	Thank you. Pleasure to be here.
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