158 - With the Old Breed: EB Sledge
In September 1944 a young Marine name Eugene Sledge landed on the Pacific Island of Peleliu. As a mortarman, stretcher-bearer and rifleman Sledge would fight his way across Peleliu then the Japanese i...
15 Jan 20221h 19min
157 - General Patton
George S Patton Junior starred as an Olympic athlete in the 1912 Stockholm games. In 1916 under John J. Pershing Patton joined the Mexican Expedition against the paramilitary forces of Mexican revolut...
1 Jan 202253min
156 - Churchill, Master and Commander
From his earliest days, Winston Churchill was a risk-taker. As a young Lieutenant in the army he charged with the cavalry at the battle of Omdurman, he saw action on the North-West Frontier and took a...
15 Dec 20211h 27min
155 - Pearl Harbor
7th December 2021 marks the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States of America into the Second World War. On the morning of 7th December 1941, just before 8am the...
1 Dec 202145min
154 - Chemical Weapons
In this episode we are discussing chemical weapons. It might seem like an odd topic, unlike the First World War which saw the deployment of gas, chemical weapons were not used on the battlefield of Eu...
15 Nov 202154min
153 - Canadian Army Civil Affairs Units
One lesson the allies learned from the fall of France in 1940 was that civilian populations needed managing, to keep them away from military operations. As the allied troops came-a-shore after D-Day i...
1 Nov 202155min
152 - U.S. Naval Gunfire Support in the Pacific
Before the outbreak of war, the US Navy and the Marines had put considerable effort into developing a doctrine to support amphibious operations from ship to shore gunfire. When the marines landed on T...
15 Okt 202152min
151 - Escape from Greece
I've an incredible story for you in this episode of Shanghai born John Robin Greaves, 'Jack', who emigrated to Australia in 1939 and volunteered for the Australian Imperial Force to serve overseas. Th...
1 Okt 202146min
