232 - The Australians and New Zealanders at Greece & Crete
In March 1941, 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops were rushed to Greece in a desperate attempt to support the Greeks against the looming threat of a German attack. Although the operation was ult...
22 Jul 20241h 1min
231 - US Battle Tanks
In this episode, we discuss the development of US tanks from the end of the First World War through to the end of the Second World War. I am joined by renowned historian and author Steven Zaloga, who ...
15 Jul 202456min
230 - U-505: Codename Nemo
Just two days before D-Day, Captain Gallery's US antisubmarine Task Group 22.3 managed to force the German U-boat U-505 to the surface. In a bold move, a boarding party secured the submarine before it...
1 Jul 202445min
229 - D-Day Legacy
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I attended a special event at the Green Howards Museum. We started at the regimental war memorial in Richmond (Yorkshire) at 6.30 a.m., which was when the...
24 Jun 20241h 8min
228 - D-Day Landing Craft
More than 132,000 Allied troops landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944. Through their efforts, the tide of the war turned for the final time to favour the Allies. But how did the Allied army ge...
15 Jun 20241h 9min
227 - D-Day: Sword Beach
6th June 1944 saw the largest seaborne assault in human history: D-Day. While much has been written about the operation as a whole, little detailed attention has been paid to the battle for Sword Beac...
1 Jun 20241h 5min
226 - D-Day and the Great Deception
As the Allied forces prepared for the monumental invasion of Normandy, concealing the massive build-up of troops in Britain from the Germans became increasingly challenging. To mislead German intellig...
27 Mai 202452min
225 - Hill 107 and the Battle of Crete
On the morning of May 20, 1941, the Germans launched Operation Mercury. The invasion of Crete was the largest airborne operation yet attempted during the war, with thousands of Fallschirmjäger deploye...
15 Mai 202445min
