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Churchill's Shell Game
A desperate Churchill green lights the raid on Dieppe. And though it has been scaled back to avoid entanglements with panzers, it is still complex an…
2 years, 5 months ago
Operation Rudder-Less
The Dieppe Raid planning continues as Churchill needs something to show the Americans and Soviets. The Canadians are tapped to assist the Commandos a…
2 years, 5 months ago
Kill Or Be Killed
With Lord Mountbatten in charge of Combined Operations, the plan to soften up the enemy’s coastline defenses is underway. But there is much to learn …
2 years, 6 months ago
Here Come the Commandos
In building up to Operation Sledgehammer, Mountbatten’s arrival is a whirlwind for Combined Operations. Their numbers will grow as will the number of…
2 years, 6 months ago
Operation Sledgehammer
Operation Pedestal would ensure that Malta stayed in the fight. But Stalin is not appeased. He wants a Second Front. So does Gen. George Marshall and…
2 years, 6 months ago
Operation Sledgehammer
Operation Pedestal would ensure that Malta stayed in the fight. But Stalin is not appeased. He wants a Second Front. So does Gen. George Marshall and…
2 years, 6 months ago
Pedestal: The Final Curtain
The final episode of Operation Pedestal. Through luck and determination and American engineering, the Ohio holds together long enough, to bring her i…
2 years, 6 months ago
By the Skin of Her Teeth
As everyone on Malta and in Britain and in the US and in North Africa wait, the tanker Ohio, carrying much needed oil to the island, slowly crawls to…
2 years, 6 months ago
It's Today or Nothing
When the sun rises on August 14th, the Stuka’s and Italian bombers are back. It would only take one bomb landing true to break the Ohio in half. But …
2 years, 7 months ago
Interview w/ James B. Conroy, about his book, The Devils Will Get No Rest
As the Americans enter the war after the events of Pearl Harbor, the Western Allies have to decide how to fight the war. The Americans have the indus…
2 years, 7 months ago