The Invasion of Peleliu Part 3 of 3-Operation STALEMATE II-with Dave Holland

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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This week Seth and Bill are rejoined by good friend Dave Holland to wrap up the bloody Operation STALEMATE II, the fight for Peleliu. This week the team gets into the stories of Eugene Sledge's K-3-5, the story of Medal of Honor recipient Arthur Jackson, more of the bloody fighting for Bloody Nose Ridge, and the tragic death of Sledge's company commander, Andy Haldane

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to episode 32 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:34.5	My name is Seth Perriden, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi on Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby. And with me, as always, is my good buddy
0:41.2	retired Navy Captain Bill Toney. And that's it. That's all I'm saying. How are you, Bill?
0:45.4	That's all you said. How are you? I'm going to continue with this joke as long as I can,
0:50.0	you know. Sure, why not? I mean, we got comments on that today I think but it's fine we did and
0:57.0	well with us again this week and we're always glad to have them is our old buddy Dave
1:03.0	Holland who runs the fantastic Facebook page and YouTube channel Wadalcanal walking the
1:08.9	battlefield how are you today, Dave?
1:12.7	Doing well on guys, and thanks again for having me on. And I'm enjoying, and I'm going to speak
1:19.0	about part three. The one thing I will mention, I was actually listening to your Guam episode,
1:26.7	I think two or three days ago.
1:28.8	Oh, maybe last week I was doing a walk, daily walk, trying to stay fit.
1:32.6	I was listening to the Guam episode, which is very good, by the way.
1:35.3	And you brought up a guy, a fellow as a Marine company officer named Lou Wilson,
1:40.1	who earned a Medal of Honor on Guam, which you told a good story about how he earned his medal,
1:46.5	which is quite amazing.
1:48.2	But you left out a trivia part, and I was just waiting for it.
1:50.7	And I'm like, oh, why didn't they say that?
1:52.1	And probably they don't know it.
1:54.0	Maybe because I was a former Marine, this is a bit of trivia, a bit of rock and roll trivia for you. So Lou Wilson, he later became a four-star general in a commonwealth of the Marine Corps,
2:03.6	which is, like, great in itself.
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