The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

The Pacific theater of World War II…scene of some of the bloodiest, most violent fighting in history. Nations locked in a fight to the death, in a total war that would kill millions and devastate landscapes and civilizations across the largest battle front in human history.

A war which, for the United States, started on a peaceful Sunday morning and ended four and half years later under the shadow of nuclear weapons. A war in which tactics and doctrine was written, rewritten and tested on a scale never seen before or since, yet is often overshadowed by the European theater that occurred at the same time. The winds of war may be blowing in the Pacific again today, and that makes what happened there in the 20th Century even more relevant.

Hello everyone, I’m Seth Paridon, WWII historian and museum professional with nearly 20 years worth of experience and research into the Pacific theater.

And I’m William Toti, retired Navy captain who steamed the very same Pacific waters for over a decade where so many of our great World War II battles were fought.

Bill and I are kicking off a new podcast about the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, titled “An Unauthorized History of the Pacific War." In this podcast we will be covering the war from an angle you might not be familiar with. For example, many people know about the Guadalcanal campaign, but did you know that twice as many sailors died in that campaign as Marines?

We will also cover the great leaders of the Pacific theater, bringing to light some facts you might not be aware of. For example, a lot of people still consider General Douglas MacArthur to be a hero, but did you know that before the war, at age 50 he took in a 16-year-old mistress? And during the war he repeatedly changed his operational plans resulting in the needless deaths of thousands of Americans?

It’s not our intention to focus on the salacious, but we will expose hard, historical facts that have largely been overlooked by the general public.

We hope you will join us and find our take on the Pacific war intriguing.

Again, the name of our podcast is “An Unauthorized History of the Pacific War. Subscribe to the show wherever you receive your podcasts and follow the video version of our shows on youtube. We hope to see you soon.