Prof. Greg Jackson

I don't want to see the Pacific get shortchanged.

I love the European side.

As weird as it always is, I know everyone understands what a history means.

And they're like, I love the history of this war.

It's not condoning war, hate war, but the gripping stories, the significance of how the world changes as a result.

But so many Americans...

So many servicemen bled and died in the Pacific.

I don't want to throw too big of a blanket over this, but it's so often the case that World War II gets reduced to a European focus.

And I just don't want to omit, skip, cut out the very real sacrifices that happened in the Pacific.

So trying to make sure we do justice to all of it.

It means we're going to keep...

Changing gears every few episodes, but you can always go back and listen just to whichever theater you want.

Entities works because we're going for something even larger in terms of than even nation state.

Right.

You know, I think that's fine.

And one other point I'd like to drive home is that I think it's important for us to remember, while in hindsight, World War II becomes very European centric.

I mean, like you say, World War II, your average person thinks about Nazis.

They do not think about Imperial Japan.

But at this point in the war where we are at 1942 going into 1943, I think it's crucial to remember that for Americans at that point,

It's really more about the Pacific.