The WW2 Podcast

Any long protracted conflict is reliant upon the resources that can be brought bear, in which case war is not just about military success. In this episode of the WW2 podcast we'll be looking at econom...

In previous episodes 77 and 55 we looked at foreign troops serving in the German army during WWII, in this episode we're going to be discussing the Georgians who came over from the Russian army to fig...

In episode 64 I discussed the start of the Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign with Jeffery Cox. We left that discussion of the campaign unfinished, the Americans were in control of the airfield on Guadalca...

The skill and bravery of the Doolittle raiders during WWII, who bombed Tokyo in 1942 captured the American public's imagination, but not all the crews returned. Eight US flyers became Japanese prisone...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said there was only one campaign of the Second World War that gave him sleepless nights, that was the Battle of the Atlantic. The Battle began on 3 September ...

After D-Day, the spotlight on the allied fighting was focused on North West Europe, yet the fighting in Italy carried on often overlooked. In this episode we're going to be looking at the Canadians ba...

In episode 107, I talked to Ian Mitchell about the Battle of the Peaks and Longstop Hill in North Africa. Ian subsequently emailed me suggesting I talk to Sam Wallace, a post graduate researcher at L...

In 1944, Ira Barnet took off from an airfield in New Guinea. Flying a B-25 Mitchell, from the 48th Tactical Fight Squadron, Ira and the crew were on a regular mission to harry any Japanese shipping th...

Bertram Ramsey was the mastermind behind the evacuation of the BEF from France in those crucial weeks at the end of May and the start of June in 1940. It was his planning, determination and leadership...

On 6th August 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets, flying the 'Enola Gay' a B-29 Superfortress named after Tibbets's mother, dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb, 'little-...