125 – Mechanisation of British Cavalry Units and Tank Doctrine
In episode 107, I talked to Ian Mitchell about the Battle of the Peaks and Longstop Hill in North Africa.
Allies
124 – Kais: Downed airmen in New Guinea
In 1944, Ira Barnet took off from an airfield in New Guinea. Flying a B-25 Mitchell, from the 48th Tactical
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
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