Hello and welcome to episode 22 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.

My name is Seth Periden, historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby. And with us soon is our esteemed co-host. Captain Bill Toaddy, former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine USS Indianapolis, Commodore Submarine Squadron 3 and many other postings. Bill is currently doing a live news segment covering the loss of the submersible that was out there looking at the Titanic.

So he will join us supposedly, hopefully very, very soon.

But if you're watching, you can clearly see that with us again this week, and we are always very happy to have him is historian.

Extraordinary John Partial partial john how are you this fine

morning i am living my best life that is awesome that is awesome how's the weather up there right now

not so much yeah weather advisories and yeah yet more crummy uh campfire air coming down from

canada as a result of the wildfires, but yeah, we're hanging in.

So I'm delighted to be here.

It is hotter than fire down in the southeastern part of the United States right now.

I can say that with 100% certainty, I assure you.

Yeah.

Miserable, miserable.

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Yeah, yeah. And it's it's the algorithm is a pain in the neck, but, you know, I don't even understand. I don't even want to try and understand how it works, but they don't want you to understand how it works.

You know, having, having fought the SEO wars as a marketing flack in the software industry for a number of years,

you know, it's, they don't want you to know.

So, yeah.

Yeah, very true.

So back when we did the episode on New Guinea, that one being Buna Gona, which John was also a guest on for that specific episode, I made mention of forgotten fronts, forgotten theaters, forgotten battles, whatever you want to call them.

And while people will always squawk about how their relative service is forgotten on so-and-so island all day long,

there are really, at least in my opinion, truly honest to God, forgotten fronts, forgotten for many reasons. The fighting wasn't as

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