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

Akas's Belly project. So the wait is finally over. I'm back. It was a long year, and I'm sorry

I wasn't able to produce anything during that time. I just didn't have the bandwidth. Thank you for

those of you who messaged me during that time, asking about the show, and as promised, it's getting

off the ground again albeit a

little later than i anticipated for those of you listening in the future there obviously is no gap

this is just the next one in the queue so to you i say congrats on not having to wait anyway where

were we we've gotten the early 1944 in europe and covered the Battle of the Atlantic and the air campaign.

So now we will once again turn our gaze to the Pacific.

But first, we'll take a short pause over the United States.

As soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines were battling it out everywhere from Sicily to the Solomon Islands,

the average American was still at home.

And what was life like for those servicemen overseas when they weren't locked in deadly

conflict?

What changes were occurring as a result of all the effort being put into toppling the German

and Japanese empires?

To answer this question, and others, let's begin episode 41, overpaid and over here.

I have been astonishing that Japan should in a single day have plunged into war against the United States and the British Empire.

What kind of a people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them

until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget? The

The Like every other nation locked in the global struggle in 1944, the United States had become a warfare state.

Unlike the people of almost every other nation that had mobilized for war, however, the average

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