129 – The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943
In episode 64 I discussed the start of the Guadalcanal-Solomons campaign with Jeffery Cox. We left that discussion of the
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128 – The Doolittle Raiders and their Fight for Justice
The skill and bravery of the Doolittle raiders during WWII, who bombed Tokyo in 1942 captured the American public’s imagination,
127 – The Longest Campaign: The Battle of the Atlantic
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said there was only one campaign of the Second World War that gave him sleepless
126 – The River Battles: Canada’s Final Campaign in Italy
After D-Day, the spotlight on the allied fighting was focused on North West Europe, yet the fighting in Italy carried
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.
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
121 – To Defeat The Few: The Luftwaffe’s Battle of Britain
After the fall of France, Germany turned its attention to Britain. The Battle of Britain is the story of the
120 – The People’s Army in the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish civil war has been highlighted as an important prelude to WWII with Germany, Italy and Russia providing men