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Sighted Sub, Sank Same
Episode 113
We've neglected the Battle of the Atlantic, so in this episode of the podcast we look at the how the US Navy tackled the U-Boat threat during WWII. T…
6 years ago
Four Hours of Fury: Operation Varsity
Episode 112
On the 24th of March 1945, 75 years ago this year, the largest ever airborne operation swung into action. Operation Varsity involved over 16,000 para…
6 years ago
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge
Episode 111
"Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances …
6 years, 1 month ago
The P-47 Thunderbolt and 362nd Fighter Group
Episode 110
In this episode we're going to be looking at the P-47 Thunderbolt and the US 362nd Fighter Group. The P-47 was a fighter bomber and very much suited …
6 years, 1 month ago
The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Episode 109
At the end of last year aviation historian Mathew Chapman sent me over his MA thesis, which is titled The Evolution of Professional Aviation Culture …
6 years, 2 months ago
The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941
Episode 108
We're all familiar with the events on that day of 'infamy', the 7th December 1941. The Japanese launch their typhoon in the pacific with the attack o…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Battle of the Peaks and Long Stop Hill
Episode 107
We're in North Africa for this episode of the podcast. In late 1942 the Allies landed in Morocco and Algeria, this was operation Torch. With them lan…
6 years, 3 months ago
Operation Swallow
Episode 106
In this episode we're starting with the US 110th Infantry regiment in the Ardennes and following a small number of GI's who became POW and sent back …
6 years, 3 months ago
Case White: The Invasion of Poland, 1939
Episode 105
2019 marked the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland by Germany and then a few weeks later, Russia. It was the event that forced Britain and Fr…
6 years, 4 months ago
Alarmstart: The Luftwaffe in the Mediterranean
Episode 104
If you cast your mind back to February 2018 I discussed the experience of German fighter pilots experience in Western Europe with Patrick Eriksson, t…
6 years, 4 months ago