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To Defeat The Few: The Luftwaffe's Battle of Britain
Jul 15, 2020After the fall of France, Germany turned its attention to Britain. The Battle of Britain is the story of the hard pressed RAF struggling against an enemy, which up to that point hadn't been stopped. I...
The People's Army in the Spanish Civil War
Jul 01, 2020The Spanish civil war has been highlighted as an important prelude to WWII with Germany, Italy and Russia providing men and materiel for the Republican and Nationalist forces. Augmenting this were oth...
The British Army and the Anti-Locust Campaign
Jun 15, 2020As you know I like to seek out lesser known topics of the Second World War. In this episode we'll be looking at the British army's Middle-East Anti-locust Unit (MEALU). Due to locust threatening local...
The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
Jun 01, 2020In this episode we're looking at the British decryption efforts centred around Bletchley Park. I'm sure to some extent you're all aware of the German cypher machine Enigma which proved so challenging ...
Information Hunters
May 15, 2020The old adage is 'information is power', and in this episode we're going to be looking at the US operations to initially obtain information that was in the public domain. Post D-Day the mission change...
Clementine Churchill
May 10, 2020Clementine Churchill supported her husband Winston through the ups and downs of his long career. She was his most trusted confidant, counsellor and companion. Indeed it could be arguable that without ...
To VE Day Through German Eyes
May 01, 202080 years ago this month (thats May 2020, if you're reading this from the future) the Germans finally surrendered to the Allies. While there were a number different surrender ceremonies the 8 May 1945 ...
Airborne Chaplains in the Second World War
Apr 15, 2020In this episode we're exploring the work of army Chaplains assigned to British Airborne units during the war. These men landed with the troops by parachute or glider, often behind enemy lines sharing ...
Sighted Sub, Sank Same
Apr 01, 2020We'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. To start with, flying long missions with just a pair...
Four Hours of Fury: Operation Varsity
Mar 15, 2020On the 24th of March 1945, 75 years ago this year, the largest ever airborne operation swung into action. Operation Varsity involved over 16,000 paratroopers and thousands of planes, the objective was...