123 – Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsey was the mastermind behind the evacuation of the BEF from France in those crucial weeks at the end
Allies
122 – Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up
On 6th August 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets, flying the ‘Enola Gay’ a B-29 Superfortress named after Tibbets’s mother, dropped the
119 – The British Army and the Anti-Locust Campaign
As you know I like to seek out lesser known topics of the Second World War. In this episode we’ll
118 – The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
In this episode we’re looking at the British decryption efforts centred around Bletchley Park. I’m sure to some extent you’re
117 – Information Hunters
The old adage is ‘information is power’, and in this episode we’re going to be looking at the US operations
114 – Airborne Chaplains in the Second World War
In this episode we’re exploring the work of army Chaplains assigned to British Airborne units during the war. These men
113 – Sighted Sub, Sank Same
We’ve neglected the Battle of the Atlantic, so in this episode of the podcast we look at the how the
110 – The P-47 Thunderbolt and 362nd Fighter Group
In this episode we’re going to be looking at the P-47 Thunderbolt and the US 362nd Fighter Group. The P-47
109 – The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
At the end of last year aviation historian Mathew Chapman sent me over his MA thesis, which is titled The
107 The Battle of the Peaks and Long Stop Hill
We’re in North Africa for this episode of the podcast. In late 1942 the Allies landed in Morocco and Algeria,