145 – Bomb Aimers
On the heavy bombers the role of the crew members was symbiotic. The pilot needed the flight engineer to fly;
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144 – Alan Brooke: Churchill’s Right-Hand Critic
Alan Brooke would take over as the British Chief of the Imperial General Staff in December 1941. For the rest
143 – The Battle for Madagascar
When France capitulated in 1940 and the Vichy government came to power many of the French colonial possessions remained loyal
142 – Mackenzie King
Everyone remembers the role of Churchill and Roosevelt throughout the war, but there was a third man key to their
141 – Eighth Army versus Rommel
Cast your minds back to episode 103 I discussed Eric Dorman-Smith with James Colvin. At that time James was busy
140 – How to kill a Panther tank
It’s a simple question, how do you knock out a Panther tank? When the ‘boffins’ in Britain got hold of
139 – German Uniforms
‘In the years after World War I, the defeated and much-reduced German Army developed new clothing and personal equipment that
138 – Hang Tough: Major Dick Winters
Since the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers aired in 2001, Major Dick Winters of the 101st Airborne has garnered international
137 – Operation Lena and Hitler’s Plots to Blow up Britain
The common narrative of the war often completely overlooks Germany’s attempts to run spies in Britain. In actual fact, for
136 – The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944
At the start of 1944 the German army on the Eastern Front was reeling after suffering defeats at Stalingrad and