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 Lieutenant) March 15, 2021

Hang Tough: Major Dick Winters

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Since the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers aired in 2001, Major Dick Winters of the 101st Airborne has garnered international acclaim. His exploits hit key moments of the North-Western European campaign in 1944-45 as Winter’s took part in D-Day, Operation Market Garden and Battle of the...read more

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Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay

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Bertram Ramsey was the mastermind behind the evacuation of the BEF from France in those crucial weeks at the end of May and the start of June in 1940. It was his planning, determination and leadership which helped evacuate around 338,000 men from Dunkirk. But for this Royal Navy Officer, still...read more

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 Lieutenant) November 01, 2019

'Chink' Eric Dorman-Smith

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If you’ve ever read about the British experience in the Deserts of North Africa during WWII, one name usually gets a mention somewhere in the narrative, that of Eric Dorman-Smith, often refered to as ‘chink’.

He...read more

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 Lieutenant) August 15, 2017

Castle of Eagles: Escape from Mussolini’s Colditz

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In this episode we’re looking at high ranking British POWs held by the Italians and their attempts at escape. The middle east was considered an Italian theatre, rather than prisoners be shipped to Germany high ranking officers such as Generals ...read more

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 Lieutenant) May 20, 2017

Patton VS. Rommel

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En el programa de esta semana iniciamos el repaso y enfrentamiento de las biografías de los grandes líderes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y en el primer programa de esta saga enfrentaremos al General de cuatro estrellas George Patton "El viejo sangre y agallas" y al Mariscal de Campo Erwin...read more

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 Lieutenant) September 04, 2016

When four British Generals were captured by German Africa Corps in 1941

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Reminiscent of a gangster hold-up, the capture in Libya of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Richard O'Connor and Maj.-Gen. Philip Neame, V.C. on 6 April 1941, was carried out by German motor cycle troops who had pushed on towards the coast from Mechili in the moonlight, and who whisked the officers away from a...read more

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 Lieutenant) August 15, 2016

MacArthur

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In this episode Angus is looking at Douglas MacArthur with Walter Borneman.

MacArthur is one of those personalities that war throws up which are hard to pin down. They have a big personalities and seemingly a huge confidence within themselves that overrides everything else (another two...read more

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Forgotten Victor: Richard O’Connor

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Richard O’Connor came very close to expelling the Italians out of North Africa, if things hadn’t distracted the British drawing away his troops, there very well could have been no Afrika Corps or El Alamein. Rommel and Monty would have had to make their names elsewhere.

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 Lieutenant) October 19, 2015

The Panzer General who made a strong but futile protest to the Wehrmacht High Command against the shooting of unarmed Russian

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Joachim Lemelsen born 28 September 1888 (Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia) died 30 March 1954 (Gottingen, Lower Saxony, West Germany) was a Panzer General (General der Panzertruppe) in the Wehrmacht during World War II. 

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 HQ Comando Supremo) March 30, 2015

BlitzoCast 008 – Generales alemanes caídos en combate en la II Guerra Mundial

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Esto es BlitzoCast. No es HistoCast pero casi. Hoy hablaremos de las las circunstancias en las que murieron algunos generales alemanes, combatiendo en primera línea, y para ello tenemos a Hugo (@HugoACanete www.gehm.es). Se habla de los siguientes generales...read more

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