Unauthorized History of the Pacific War Podcast Special Announcement

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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4.8 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Seth and Bill have a quick special announcement to make regarding an upcoming WWII miniseries. Masters of the Air, premiering January 26 on Apple TV+ will be a cinematic adventure that needs to be seen by all WWII aficionados. Seth, Bill and new guest historian Tommy Lofton will dissect each new episode of Masters of the AIr the Monday after it airs. We will tell you what was accurate, what wasn't, what they covered, and what they should've covered while giving you tidbits of the actual history of the Bloody 100th Bomb Group. This will be a limited run 9-week miniseries here on our channel and will not take the place of our normal show, this limited 9-week show will be in addition to our normal programming. Our first dissection will air Tuesday January 30 just after our normal show airs.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast, who today and for the next nine weeks will be expanding into the European
0:21.3	theater, the Eighth Air Force's Air War, the strategic bombing campaign over Germany and
0:27.1	Europe in 1943 to 45, as Bill and I and another guest are going to reflect on the Masters
0:34.2	of the Air miniseries airing on Apple TV Plus currently.
0:38.6	Bill, this is a really big series that's coming up, and we felt that we feel that we need to,
0:46.2	we're going to have to have something to say about this series for sure.
0:49.4	What do you think?
0:50.8	Yeah, absolutely.
0:51.9	Seth, you know, the resurgence of interest in World War II, sadly, I think, began in the late 90s with saving Private Ryan. That expanded in the early 2000s with Band of Brothers. Then, of course, the Pacific was covered. You know, you had something to do with that. But if you would
1:11.8	ask me, even when I was a submarine officer, even before my CO days, what one of my favorite
1:20.0	World War II movies was, it would have been 12 o'clock high, Seth,
1:28.9	which people find odd for a submariner,
1:32.6	but it's just such a great leadership movie,
1:35.5	not just a World War II movie.
1:37.4	And, you know, this is going to be, you know, that on steroids.
1:44.0	Because, you know, they, the team that's doing this, of course, Spielberg, Hanks has such a good
1:49.9	track record of making sure that their video, their movie is faithful to the history, Seth.
1:57.5	And hopefully you'll know something about that.
2:00.7	Yeah, it is the Eighth Air Force. The European Theater is, is, is, Seth, and hopefully you'll know something about that. Yeah, it is the Eighth Air Force.
2:02.9	The European Theater is not foreign to me for obvious reasons, but the Eighth Air Force of
2:09.9	the European Theater, the Eighth Air Force has always been my very favorite area of interest.
2:16.1	And so I know a little bit about it. I was a member for a long time
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