Hello everyone, and thank you once again for listening to the saga of World War II,

a Cassus Belly project.

As always, I appreciate everyone who is listening and encourage you to reach out to me at

Cassusbelly guy at gmail.com with any corrections or comments you might have.

In addition, positive reviews on iTunes, or wherever you get the show, help out as well.

And to show you that I actually do read your emails and reviews, I'll address a point

that was made about my pronunciation.

As it is pretty obvious to everyone listening, I'm American, so I pronounce things the

American way.

When using French or Russian or Chinese or something, I try to be as faithful as I can to

the actual pronunciation, but when it comes to differences between American English and British English,

I typically just say it the way an American would.

For instance, Lieutenant versus Lieutenant, or Cunningham versus Cunningham.

However, I will admit that Gloucester should be pronounced Gloucester, not Gloucester,

just like Worcester Mass, not Warcester.

So I do apologize for that one.

I also need to address American naming conventions for Japanese aircraft during the war.

You've probably heard of Japanese aircraft being referred to by American first names,

specifically Vals and Cates in this show,

and wondered what exactly I'm talking about or where

these names came from. Well, I'm about to tell you. It all goes back to one captain Frank T. McCoy

of the U.S. Army Air Corps Intelligence in mid-1942. He was trying to find a way to quickly and easily

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