Music

Ackton Ackton, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk USA

with me, Al Murray, James Holland and John McMannus.

Hello, Jents, how are we?

Yep, all good, all good. How are you, John?

Welcome to the NUM team.

Doing great, great to be with you.

I've been giving midterms.

I gave a midter in my Vietnam class last week.

Ah, right.

Well, I'm keen to be a bit of a student to you for the next five minutes.

Because I'm just trying to work out of that.

I think what people don't understand is, people don't understand how shipping works in the 1940s.

They just don't get it.

Don't understand the complexities of it, the numbers of it, where they've been produced,

the demands on it.

And when you look at something like Operation Avalanche and the Fifth Army is a sort of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of Italy,

Rand Salleno, you've got to think, well,

kind of any of that two more divisions, you know, that made all the difference.

Of course, they do have two more divisions, but they don't have this as shipping.

But why is that? Why is it?

And why isn't that you can't just sort of halt everything and send lots of supplies over to Bengal, for example?

...