Hello and welcome to episode 227 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.

My name is Seth Perid and historian and deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum here at Camp Shelby. And with me as always is my esteemed co-host retired Navy Captain Bill

Tody, former skipper of the Fast Attack Submarine U.S.S. Indianapolis, common ore submarine squadron

3 in Pearl Harbor and many other assignments. How are you this morning, Bill?

I'm doing well, Seth. And a little bit news of the week this week. It was announced that

the Omni Bay escort carrier was discovered. Actually, it was discovered by the petrol a few years ago.

But it was discovered. It was finally identified. That was CVE-79, Casablanca

class carrier. Of course, it was sunk in the Sulu C by a kamikaze, you know, back in 1945.

So, you know, that's an incredible discovering. And we always like, oh, sorry.

Yeah, 1945.

That's right, Seth, isn't it?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

We always like to highlight these things when news comes out during the week that we're broadcasting.

So I wanted to bring that to everybody's attention this week.

These underwater discoveries, as we've said multiple times before, you know, they're valuable,

they're important, you know, they're time capsules, and they're fascinating to me, utterly fascinating,

and I know they are the same to you as well. And I don't think we're the only ones that are fascinated by underwater archaeology, shall we say. Well, before we get started,

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