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42 - The Battle of the Coral Sea
42 - The Battle of the Coral Sea
In January I had an email from Bob Drury, if that name sounds familiar it’s because I chatted to Bob in episode 30 talki... Read more
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102 - D-Day Through German Eyes
102 - D-Day Through German Eyes
June 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of D-Day, we had a month of D-Day podcasts looking at the operation from the Briti... Read more
15 Oct 2019
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66 - Northrop P-61 Black Widow
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03 - Omar Bradley
03 - Omar Bradley
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06 - The OSS - America's WW2 Intelligence Service
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Last Man Standing: Geoffrey Rothwell
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105 - Case White: The Invasion of Poland, 1939
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2019 marked the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland by Germany and then a few weeks later, Russia. It was the eve... Read more
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64 - The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign 1942
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One of my first guests was Jeffrey Cox, we discussed in length the Java Sea campaign in episode 14. Jeff has been busy f... Read more
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32 - Operation Sea Lion - The invasion of Britain
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94 - 1941
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87 - Hitler's Death
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29 - Selling Hitler
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In this episode I’m talking to Nicholas O'Shaughnessy. Nicholas is is currently Visiting Professor in the Centre for Str... Read more
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17 - Shooting Up: Drug use in WWII
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It’s a little known fact that during the second world war drugs were issued to those men on active service on a monument... Read more
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05 - The Dieppe Raid
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59 - Case Red: The Collapse of France
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In this episode I’m looking at ‘Case Red’ the German attack on France post Dunkirk. Often when we talk about the Battle ... Read more
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In 1943 a lone B-17 Bomber set off on a solo reconnaissance mission, it was to be a 1200 mile round trip. Passing within... Read more
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50 - Operation Tonga
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In this episode I’m looking at Operation Tonga, the British airborne element that led the way during the D-Day landings ... Read more
1 Sep 2017
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