The Invasion of Bougainville

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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This week Seth and Bill tackle the invasion of Bougainville on November 1, 1943. With the noose around Rabaul growing ever tighter, ADM Halsey and the new 3rd Marine Division and veteran 37th Infantry Division land at Cape Torokina and establish airfields to further tighten the grip on the Japanese fortress at Rabaul. Tune in and see what the team has to say about the reasons for the invasion, the operation itself, heroism, and the end results.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 219 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:18.2	My name is Seth Peridon, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby. And with me as always, is my esteemed
0:24.6	co-host, retired Navy Captain Bill Toady, former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine
0:28.3	USS Indianapolis, Commodore Submarine Squadron 3 of Pearl Harbor, and many other assignments.
0:34.1	How are you this week, Bill?
0:36.5	Good and great, Seth. So today we're going to introduce kind of a new segment on the podcast.
0:42.3	We're calling News of the Week, and I'm not sure we may do News of the Month or something like that, depending on how much news comes out.
0:50.3	But I figured we'd start with these.
0:53.3	So, you know, one of the interesting things is the way Seth and I met was that both of us
0:57.7	were on this Fox Nation eight episode documentary called The Lost Ships of World War II,
1:06.0	which aired last year Memorial Day.
1:09.4	So that would be Memorial Day 2022.
1:12.9	And it's still airing on Fox Nation.
1:15.8	So I do encourage folks, if you're interested at all
1:20.9	in naval history of World War II,
1:23.4	and you want to see some ships that were rediscovered
1:25.7	at the bottom of the ocean after decades,
1:29.3	you know, 80, 75, 80 years of being on the bottom of the ocean. And these are some very
1:35.2	storage ships, some carriers. Musashi is one of them, the only non-American, the only non-allied ship,
1:43.3	because I think we do find Canberra in this episode on this series.
1:47.4	But I really encourage you to go to Fox Nation, which is a streaming channel, and look up the
1:54.9	documentary series called Lost Ships of World War II. It's available streaming online as well.
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