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29 stunning images of fighting, defeat, victory, devastation and ruins in Monte Cassino. Remembering the battle, remembering to them!!!
May 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino, fought over four main battles between 17 January and 18 May 1944. They saw the Allied Forces involved in some of the most bitter fighting of the Second World War, where steep mountain slopes and...read more
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The Italian Army In North Africa
Long standing listeners will have heard Angus chat to Walter Zapotoczny before, in episode 57 they looked at Ardennes offensive, and in episode 63 they looked at ...read more
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Mediterranean Strategy
Back in episode 7, Angus talked to Alexander Fitzgerald-Black about his MA thesis which focused on the allied air campaign in support of Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily....read more
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Haile Selassie's Mongrel Foreign Legion
In the classic narrative, the second world war starts with the invasion of Poland in 1939, though for the Chinese it started with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931.
Wikipedia solves the start date by stating 'relate conflicts started earlier', and that is what we'll be looking at...read more
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Flying to Victory: The Western Desert Campaign 1940-41
In this episode we're in the Western Desert in 1940-41 looking at the air campaign fought by Raymond Collishaw and his RAF crews.
Collishaw was a WW1 fighter ace. When the war broke out in 1939 now Air Commodore Collishaw he commanded an RAF Group in Egypt. The fighting in the western...read more
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28 Stunning Images of German Tanks Knocked Out, Abandoned and Captured in Tunisa!!!
The Tunisia Campaign was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African Campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces.
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Stunning Color Footage of German Troops in the Italian Front, 1944/1945
It is estimated that between September 1943 and April 1945, some 60,000-70,000 Allied and 150,000 German soldiers died in Italy. Overall Allied casualties during the campaign totaled about 320,000 and the corresponding German figure (excluding those involved in the final surrender) was well over...read more
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82nd Airborne at Operation Husky
In 1943 the Allies made their first mass use of Airborne troops in support of the landings on Sicily. By this time the Germans had already ruled out any further mass use of the airborne Fallschirmjäger after Crete, though a huge success the price paid was costly.
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When the Rommel decision, was the salvation of Afrika Koprs. Then, For the first time in the desert, the German national anthem, could be heard being sung from position to position
After Operation Crusader, 18 to 29 November 1941, although Commonwealth forces outnumbered those of the Germans and Italians, the offensive was, ultimately, not a success as it failed to destroy the Akrika Korps. Crusader was a swirling, complex battle that...read more
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