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127 - The Longest Campaign
Oct 15, 2020British 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 ...
The River Battles: Canada's Final Campaign in Italy
Oct 01, 2020After 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...
Mechanisation of British Cavalry Units and Tank Doctrine
Sep 15, 2020In 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...
Kais: Downed airmen in New Guinea
Sep 01, 2020In 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...
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay
Aug 15, 2020Bertram 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...
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up
Aug 01, 2020On 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-...
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 ...