228 – D-Day Landing Craft
More than 132,000 Allied troops landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944. Through their efforts, the tide of
Allies
227 – D-Day: Sword Beach
6th June 1944 saw the largest seaborne assault in human history: D-Day. While much has been written about the operation
226 – D-Day and the Great Deception
As the Allied forces prepared for the monumental invasion of Normandy, concealing the massive build-up of troops in Britain from
224 – The Theory and Practice of Command in the British and German Armies
In this podcast episode, we will discuss the different approaches to command and control of the British Army and the
223 – Landing Craft Infantry
In this podcast episode, I’m looking at the work of LCI’s, Landing Craft Infantry. These are not the smaller Higgins
222 – The D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations
Operation Jubilee, the Dieppe Raid on the coast of France, was a disaster in 1942. However, it did highlight the
221 – Training the Indian Army
The Indian Army was the largest volunteer army during the Second World War. Indian Army divisions fought in the Middle
219 – D-Day Tourism
While at We Have Ways Fest, I caught Paul Woodadge, the host of WW2TV, giving an excellent talk on D-Day
217 – How the Luftwaffe Lost the skies over Germany
Starting with small raids at the start of the war, the aerial offensive grew into a massive operation. Huge air
215 – The Power of Japanese Propaganda
This episode will look at Japanese propaganda during the imperial era. With the rise of mass production of newspapers and