The WW2 Podcast

We've spent quite a bit of time in the Pacific this year, I didn't intend to but as its a theatre of the war I'm not very familiar with I've been happy to be pulled down that route. One topic we've s...

1 Marras 201744min

Last year I talked to Greg Lewis about the female agents in the British Special Operations Executive, SOE, who Churchill had tasked with "setting Europe ablaze". In this episode we'll be looking spec...

15 Loka 20171h 12min

Between 1943-45 Fernaufklärungsgruppe 5 "Atlantik" would fly missions of up to 18 hours at a time over the Atlantic. They acted as the eyes for the U-Boats. Equipped with big, four-engined Junkers Ju ...

1 Loka 201745min

I was reading the British Journal for Military History and an article caught my eye titled The Psychological Impact of Airborne Warfare & the British Response to the Airborne Threat by Dr Tim Jenkins....

15 Syys 201747min

In this episode I'm looking at Operation Tonga, the British airborne element that led the way during the D-Day landings in 1944. I'm joined by Stephen Wright. Stephen is keenly interested in the opera...

1 Syys 201748min

In this episode we're looking at high ranking British POWs held by the Italians and their attempts at escape. The middle east was considered an Italian theatre, rather than prisoners be shipped to Ger...

15 Elo 20171h 5min

In this episode I'm looking at the giant soviet T-35 tank with Francis Pulham. As you will discover the T-35 was a peculiar vehicle with five turrets, very few were ever produced and almost all were k...

1 Elo 201742min

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 Ai...

15 Heinä 201747min