Episode 428-Churchill's Shell Game
A desperate Churchill green lights the raid on Dieppe. And though it has been scaled back to avoid entanglements with panzers, it is still complex and dependent on everything going to plan and on time...
1 Aug 202326min
Episode 427-Operation Rudder-Less
The Dieppe Raid planning continues as Churchill needs something to show the Americans and Soviets. The Canadians are tapped to assist the Commandos as Combined Operations wants an overwhelming attack....
26 Jul 202335min
Episode 426-Kill Or Be Killed
With Lord Mountbatten in charge of Combined Operations, the plan to soften up the enemy’s coastline defenses is underway. But there is much to learn and lessons here are normally accompanied by death....
11 Jul 202332min
Episode 425-Here Come the Commandos
In building up to Operation Sledgehammer, Mountbatten’s arrival is a whirlwind for Combined Operations. Their numbers will grow as will the number of their raids. But soon, the commandos are too few. ...
7 Jul 202325min
Episode 424-Operation Sledgehammer
Operation Pedestal would ensure that Malta stayed in the fight. But Stalin is not appeased. He wants a Second Front. So does Gen. George Marshall and he’s coming to London to say so. The British had t...
28 Jun 202327min
Episode 423-Pedestal: The Final Curtain
The final episode of Operation Pedestal. Through luck and determination and American engineering, the Ohio holds together long enough, to bring her in to Valletta Harbor. And so the various machines o...
23 Jun 202324min
Episode 422-By the Skin of Her Teeth
As everyone on Malta and in Britain and in the US and in North Africa wait, the tanker Ohio, carrying much needed oil to the island, slowly crawls towards Valletta Harbor. Yet at any moment, an Axis a...
20 Jun 202327min
Episode 421-It's Today or Nothing
When the sun rises on August 14th, the Stuka’s and Italian bombers are back. It would only take one bomb landing true to break the Ohio in half. But manning her AA guns are volunteers from previously ...
16 Jun 202326min
