The Sea is Trying to Kill You-Halsey's Typhoons with Jon Parshall - Episode 408

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth and Bill are joined by good buddy Jon Parshall to break down Typhoon Cobra and Typhoon Viper, better known as Halsey's Typhoons. Typhoon Cobram which occurred in December 1944 wreaked more havoc and devastation on Halsey's 3rd Fleet than the Japanese ever did at any one time. The guys go deep into the weeds and talk about the early warnings of the storm's arrival, Halsey and Kosco's failure to heed said warnings, and Mother Nature's wrath as three American destroyers are sunk and nearly 800 American lives are lost in the one storm that is the most devastating nature disaster ever suffered by the United States Navy. And if that wasn't bad enough, six months later in June 1945, it happened again with Typhoon Viper.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 408 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:22.8	My name is Seth Perid and historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here.
0:27.3	Cam Shelby and with me as always is retired Navy Captain Bill Toaddy, former skipper of the Fast Attack submarine USS, Indianapolis,
0:34.2	Commodore submarine squadron, Thuring of Pearl Harbor, and many others.
0:36.6	How are you this fine July the 9th, Bill?
0:40.7	I'm doing great, looking for a cup of coffee.
0:45.4	We're going to get that in a minute with us, and we are always glad to have him.
0:52.1	It's been too long.
0:53.4	It's our good friend, fantastic historian, good buddy, John Parshall.
0:57.4	How are you today, John?
0:58.8	I am doing great.
1:00.0	I'm really excited to be back here.
1:02.4	Yeah, we're always glad to have you here, my man.
1:04.8	Yeah.
1:05.3	So to cue off of what Bill said, you've heard us talk about Old Salt Coffee before.
1:10.2	We're going to do it again today.
1:12.6	Old Salt Coffee was started by a couple of Navy veterans with a passion for Navy culture and history.
1:16.9	Their mission statement is, quote, bring sailors together past and present to share their sea stories over a cup of old salt coffee.
1:24.0	These guys are really, really, really super cool.
1:26.9	They are not a sponsor of the show.
1:28.4	Let me be abundantly clear.
1:30.1	We don't get anything out of this.
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