Hello, welcome to episode 334, a 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 me as always is my esteemed co-host retired navy captain bill toady former skipper

of the fast attack submarine u s indianapolis common door submarine squadron three in pearl

harbor and many other postings how are you on this very dreary April day, Bill?

Yeah, it's not too dreary here in Florida. In fact, it's wonderful. Yeah, it sometimes it is,

but it's unusual. Seth, this last week, I went to the Brevard County Veterans Museum on

Merit Island, not far from where I live. I would late

go and get in there. And I saw something that really amaze me. First of all, it's a great

museum to anybody wants to get there. And they have a great library. They included many

books that we've covered, Seth. But the thing that really caught my attention is they have a little piece of the rope

that Prime Minister Tojo was hung with.

So apparently this was the thing, Seth.

After they hung Tojo, they cut this rope up into little bitty pieces and handed it out to various dignitaries.

Can you believe that?

I totally believe that because when I was at the World War II Museum, we had various pieces of

morbid macabre artifacts like that in our collection, too.

We have a few things here at this museum that are kind of like, you know, kind of creepy.

But yeah, I can totally believe that.

I don't think I'd put that out on

display but you know that's just me it was on display yeah to each his own well uh if you're

watching this it's very obvious that we have a third member of the crew in here today and we'd like

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