The Invasion of Saipan Part 1 of 3 with Jon Parshall

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth and Bill welcome great pal Jon Parshall back to the show for a 3 episode run on the invasion of Saipan as part of Operation FORAGER. In this episode, the team discusses the pre-invasion bombardment, the first large deployment of the UDTs (forerunners of today's Navy SEALS), Draper Kaufmann, the landings by the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions, and the utter chaos of the beachhead. The guys go into the Japanese counterattack on the Marine beachhead. The guys go through the largest Japanese armored assault against US forces in the Pacific theater and dive into some of the stories of that vicious night. As the Marines begin to clear the beachhead, they begin to run into Japanese civilians for the first time in the war. Tune in to hear one of the more terrible and yet touching stories we have revealed yet. #wwii #wwiihistory #ww2 #worldwar2 #usnavy #usnavyseals #usmc #usmarines #saipan #usa #usarmy #aircraft #aircraftcarrier #battleship

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 310 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:18.6	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 co-host,
0:25.0	retired Navy captain Bill Toadie, former skipper the Fast Attack Submarine U.S.S. Indianapolis,
0:29.3	Commodore, Submarine Squadron, Three and Poor Harbor, and many other posts. How are you this this fine chilly morning bill i'm doing good it's not chilly in florida it's 80 degrees but um no
0:39.7	sympathy for me i'll tell you that so this morning set i got a call um i've been doing a weekly
0:45.5	news segment on news nation national news network on the incidents or the status of the war in israel
0:54.0	since that began and and ended up having to do
0:57.0	a segment this morning on breaking news and in a slightly less festive shirt, I will say,
1:03.4	and I put shirt and tie on that. And then, you know, we try to stay laser focused on our
1:09.9	podcast, Seth.
1:15.7	And this is a World War II podcast, so we don't talk about what's happening elsewhere in the world,
1:18.0	except when it's really germane to what we do.
1:23.3	And, you know, one of our commenters said, what the heck is a submarine guy talking about, you know, all these ground wars in Ukraine?
1:25.7	And, you know, I'm one of those odd submariners that have really
1:31.2	been in a land battle doctrine since I was in the National Military Command Center during
1:36.0	Desert Storm, and I got trained in campaign planning, ground battle, and did that for that,
1:42.2	and post-Afghanistan, did did some of that as well so as
1:45.3	we get into these later battles in world war two i really feel like it's my element and we're
1:50.4	you know the one we're going to talk about today is starting to get more involved with actual
1:55.7	land campaign planning um than perhaps some of the past ones did. So I'm really looking forward to this.
2:02.8	Yeah. Yeah, this is a big one. This is a big one. And for all of you, all of you who are watching,
2:09.3	you can obviously tell that there are three of us here. And we are always happy to have him back and
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