Introduction

Seth Parroden: Hello and welcome to episode 208 of the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War podcast. With me as always, this is retired Navy Captain Bill Tote, former skipper of the FASTA tax submarine USS Indianapolis Commodore submarine squadron 3M Pearl Harbor. This week we're gonna break down a single mission that factored heavily in how the remainder of the Pacific war played out. The assassination of Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto was a precisely planned operation that had many moving parts stretched up the chain,. US chain of command all the way up to FDR with no middle ground.