Surviving The Bloody 100th: Lucky Luckadoo
John 'Lucky' Luckadoo was born in 1922, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is the last surviving pilot of the US Eighth Air Force 100th Bomb Group - nicknamed 'The Bloody 100th'. In this brilliant intervie...
13 Loka 20231h 8min
USA : We Have Ways - Eisenhower & the Influence of the American Civil War
What did the US Army and West Point learn from the Civil War, and how did this impact leadership throughout the Second World War? James Holland and John McManus discuss the similarities of leadership ...
12 Loka 202352min
Black Thursday 1943 and Crossing The Volturno
Al Murray and James Holland turn back the clocks to investigate two seismic events of the Second World War that happened 80 years ago this week. They first discuss the Fifth Army’s crossing of the Riv...
10 Loka 202356min
USA: We Have Ways - 11th Airborne Division
Former US Paratrooper and now historian, James Fenelon joins Jim and John McManus to discuss the extraordinary and little-known exploits of the 11th Airborne Division - a unit led by the brilliant Joe...
5 Loka 202356min
Slaughter in Sicily, Glider Failures and the Cruelty of German Medicine
Did German doctors unfairly euthanise their own troops if they got shot in the stomach? Were any lessons learnt by the Nazis after Salerno? And is it pronounced "Waco" or "Waco"? All these questions, ...
3 Loka 202353min
USA - We Have Ways: D-Day Ohio (Part 2)
In a bonus USA episode, James Holland recounts an incredible trip to James recounts an incredible trip to D-Day Ohio - one of the world's biggest re-enactor festivals. A Goalhanger Production Produced...
29 Syys 202331min
'Hitler's Pope', Enemies Of The People and The Difference Between Hitler and Trump
Al Murray and James Holland are joined by the lawyer and writer Philippe Sands to discuss revelatory documents that strongly suggest Pope Pius XII had knowledge of the mass murder of Poles and Jews at...
28 Syys 202344min
USA: We Have Ways - The 7th Infantry Regiment in Italy
James Holland and John McManus discuss the history of the only American fighting division that can be traced back to the war of 1812 - The 7th Infantry Regiment. What was the involvement of this legen...
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