Prof. Greg Jackson
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7,804 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 2d ago
Prof. Greg Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And with every airman required to fly 25 missions before being able to go home, these losses are so steep, it means that the odds are stacked against everyone.
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Statistically, to be a U.S.
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airman flying out of England is to be as good as dead.
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And that's why Wing Ding's Day of Terror, the second Schweinfurt raid, is a breaking point.
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Now, the U.S.
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8th doesn't stop flying, nor stop flying by day when it can use the Norden bombsight.
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But these long-range attacks in which bombers fly without escorts, that is ending.
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Long-range attacks will come back next year with the advent of a newer, sleeker P-51 Mustang that can hang with these bombers all the way out and back and even turn the tables, making the Luftwaffe hunters become the hunted.
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But the story of these yet-to-be birds and the pilots who will fly them, including the Tuskegee Airmen, is a story for another day.
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Unforgiving as American flyboys find Europe's skies in 1943, Allied sailors are seeing more success in the Atlantic.
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Yes, the Battle of the Atlantic, which we started back in episode 199, is still going, and we won't finish it today either.
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This battle is a slow burn that effectively runs the length of the entire European theater.
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But as we return to it, here's a quick refresher for you.
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In 1942, German Vice Admiral Karl Dönitz U-boats, that is submarines, were seeing so much success forming so-called wolf packs and ganging up on allied vessels that they took to calling this phase of the Battle of the Atlantic the Second Happy Time, or more mockingly, the American Turkey Shoot.
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Meanwhile, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations, or COMICH CNO, Ernest King, whose temper womanizing drinking, but also military brilliance, as we've come to know amid our episodes in the Pacific, was organizing convoys to better protect Allied ships.
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But he didn't seem too focused on it, was a bit slow, and convoys were still struggling.
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These U-boats were sinking so many ships that only 60% of the UK's peacetime cargo equivalent made it to British ports.
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Worse still then for Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who, like British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, was lend-lease reliant on the high-output United States for war materiel, but was the next link in the chain.
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While goods shipped southward around Africa and across the Persian Corridor are doing all right, far too few U.S.
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goods traveling via the British-run Arctic convoys are making it to his Arctic northern shores.
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