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Acton Acton. Welcome to We Have Ways To Make You Talk With Me, I'm Ari and James Holland,

your second World War podcast. We passed our 600 episode now. I've had some people

like on Twitter quite recently saying, I've just started the beginning or where do I begin

and you think, I don't know. I can't help you with that.

Episode 232. Exactly. My brain's like porridge. I can't. I can't. We've done what we haven't.

Exactly. And even as we attempt to become a bit more methodical about 1943 this year,

I'm thinking, have we covered that? Have we done this? Have we done that? And also,

I mean, because we're recording this on Friday, let's let a little chunk of lighting

behind the process. Into the process. But the episode we did about

Corregidor went out today with John, Joe Swing, 11th Airborne and all that stuff.

Yeah, what's up? Well, exactly. But also, again, someone on my Twitter

is going, I had no idea there were even airborne operations in the Pacific.

I'd never started Joe Swing until we got to this. I had. Well done.

Well done. Because he's integral when they set the airborne establishment up in the US.

And they're using parachute attraction machines from the world's fair and everything

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