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.
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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
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
116 – Clementine Churchill
Clementine Churchill supported her husband Winston through the ups and downs of his long career. She was his most trusted