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
WW2 Podcast
108 – The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941
We’re all familiar with the events on that day of ‘infamy’, the 7th December 1941. The Japanese launch their typhoon
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,
106 – Operation Swallow
In this episode we’re starting with the US 110th Infantry regiment in the Ardennes and following a small number of
105 – Case White: The Invasion of Poland, 1939
2019 marked the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland by Germany and then a few weeks later, Russia. It
104 Alarmstart: The Luftwaffe in the Mediterranean
If you cast your mind back to February 2018 I discussed the experience of German fighter pilots experience in Western
103 ‘Chink’ Eric Dorman-Smith
If you’ve ever read about the British experience in the Deserts of North Africa during WWII, one name usually gets
102 – D-Day Through German Eyes
June 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of D-Day, we had a month of D-Day podcasts looking at the operation from
101 – Operation CHASTISE: The Dambusters
On the night of May 16th, 1943, 19 Lancaster bombers took off from England heading toward the German industrial heartland
100 – Left For Dead At Nijmegen
On the 17th September 1944 Gene Metcalfe, of the 82 Airbourne, parachuted in to Holland as part of Operation Market