229 – D-Day Legacy
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I attended a special event at the Green Howards Museum. We started at
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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
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
225 – Hill 107 and the Battle of Crete
On the morning of May 20, 1941, the Germans launched Operation Mercury. The invasion of Crete was the largest airborne
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
220 – The Archer: Reversing to Victory
From late 1944, an ungainly piece of equipment was introduced into service in the British and Canadian armies. Referred to