The WW2 Podcast

The role of the International Committee of the Red Cross during WWII is complicated. Closely bound to Switzerland the ICRC tried to remain neutral whilst at the same time operating with in the boundar...

15 Touko 201757min

In January I had an email from Bob Drury, if that name sounds familiar it's because I chatted to Bob in episode 30 talking about Old 666. He wondered what I had planned for the 75th anniversary of th...

1 Touko 201744min

We're looking at amphibious operations during the war in this episode. Until I started researching I hadn't realised how many there were. We're all pretty familiar with the handful in the European The...

15 Huhti 201739min

I've been planning to look at some individual soldiers stories for some time, the first was going to be the story of a Green Howard who fought through from D-Day until the end of the war. As his story...

1 Huhti 201758min

In this episode we're looking at a topic we touched up on in way back in episode 06 when we looked at the OSS. We're looking at the OSS station chief in Bern, Switzerland, Allen Dulles and his connec...

15 Maalis 201754min

Once the Allies had crossed the English Channel on D-Day the next large natural barrier would be the crossing of the Rhine into Germany. Toward the end of 1944 the fighting had been hard, the American...

1 Maalis 201748min

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 Fallschirmjäge...

15 Helmi 201751min

In this episode we'll looking at how Britain found the manpower to fight the war. By the end at least four and a half million had served from Britain, if we add to that figure Empire and Commonwealth ...

1 Helmi 201738min