104 - Alarmstart: The Luftwaffe in the Mediterranean
The WW2 Podcast
If you cast your mind back to February 2018 I discussed the experience of German fighter pilots experience in Western Europe with Patrick Eriksson. Later that same year, Patrick followed up with a second book Alarmstart East, focusing on the luftwaffe fighting over Russia.
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103 'Chink' Eric Dorman-Smith
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If you’ve ever read about the British 8th Army in North Africa during WWII, one name usually gets a mention that of Eric Dorman-Smith, often refered to as ‘chink’.
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102 - D-Day Through German Eyes
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June 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of D-Day, we had a month of D-Day podcasts looking at the operation from the British, Canadian and American perspectives. The narrative of that day is the difficulty of the operation, doubts if the landings would succeed, but what if we turn the tables? How was it for the Germans?
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101 - Operation CHASTISE: The Dambusters
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On May 16th 1943, 19 Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron took off from England heading toward the German industrial heartland of the Ruhr. They carried a new bomb, codenamed ‘upkeep’, we know it today as the ‘bouncing bomb’ designed by Barnes Wallis.
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100 - Left For Dead At Nijmegen
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On the 17th September 1944 Gene Metcalfe, of the 82 Airbourne, parachuted in to Holland as part of Operation Market Garden. Approaching the bridge they were to capture Gene is injured in a firefight and left for dead. He would spend the rest of the war as a POW.
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99 - George Mergenthaler - MERG
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George Mergenthaler, heir to the Mergenhaler Linotype Company. In 1944 he was a translator attached to a recon unit in the Ardennes when the Germans launched their offensive.
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98 - Operation Market Garden
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2019 is the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, the allied attempt to create a sixty mile corridor, and secure a crossing over the Rhine. The plan was to use the newly formed First Allied Airborne Army to seize and hold nine key bridges until relieved by the British Army’s XXX Corp.
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97 - Japanese POW: Ray Fitchett
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In this episode Ray Fitchett recounts his time on HMS Exeter, and it’s sinking at the second battle of the Java Sea, he was rescued by the Japanese and sent to a POW camp. Ray would eventually sent to work in Japan at the fukuoka camp near Nagasaki, where he would witness the atomic bomb going off.
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96 - Bridge Busters: The Dortmund-Ems Canal Raid
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In this episode we’re looking at an RAF raid in 1940 against the Dortmund-Ems canal. It was very much a WWII proto-dambusters raid.
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95 - Jimmy Stewart
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For a long time I’ve been fascinated by movie stars who chose to join the military and saw combat in World War Two. One star in particular has always interested me, Jimmy Stewart. A star in the 1930’s, in 1940 he would win the Oscar for best man in 'The Philadelphia Story’. When WWII came he joined the USAAF flying combat missions over Europe.
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