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D-Day: The British Beach Landings
Episode 93
In the last episode we looked at the American experience of D-Day at Omaha beach, this time it's the turn of the British and Canadians at Sword, Juno…
6 years, 9 months ago
92 - D-Day: Omaha
Episode 92
'Before the war, Normandy's Plage d'Or coast was best known for its sleepy villages and holiday destinations. Early in 1944, Field Marshal Erwin Romm…
6 years, 10 months ago
USS Arizona: Brothers Down
Episode 91
In this episode I'm joined by Walter Borneman, if you cast your mind back I talked to him in episode 25 about General Macarthur. That was nearly thre…
6 years, 10 months ago
Storm On Our Shores: The Battle for Attu
Episode 90
On the 6th of June 1942 Japanese troops invaded the island of Attu which is part of Alaska, it was the first time since 1812 that continental America…
6 years, 11 months ago
Cork Wars
Episode 89
A few months ago I got email from David Taylor asking if I'd ever considered looking at the cork industry in WWII? I'm sure like you, it had never cr…
6 years, 11 months ago
Division Leclerc
Episode 88
In this episode we're going to be looking at the Free French and the Division Leclerc, commanded by Philippe de Hauteclocque. Raised in the French Co…
7 years ago
87 - Hitler's Death
Episode 87
We've all see the film Downfallabout the Führerbunker in Berlin, in the closing days of the war. And we all know the story of how Adolf Hitler, with …
7 years ago
The SAS in Italy, 1943-45
Episode 86
The SAS made their name in the North African desert, but less well known is after that they continued to fight in the mediterranean theatre. They car…
7 years, 1 month ago
Alarmstart East - The Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front
Episode 85
"There are no more than a handful of Second World War Luftwaffe members alive today. Patrick Eriksson had the foresight to record these experiences f…
7 years, 1 month ago
Shot Down
Episode 84
In this episode we're going to be looking at the story of Howard Snyder, a B-17 'Flying Fortress' pilot, flying with the US 8th air force from Britai…
7 years, 2 months ago