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The British Army and the Anti-Locust Campaign

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In this episode we’ll be looking at the British army’s Middle-East Anti-locust Unit (MEALU). Due to locust threatening local food crops in the middle east, and to prevent valuable shipping space being used to import food the unit was created, and tasked with waging war on locust....read more

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Mediterranean Strategy

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Back in episode 7, Angus talked to Alexander Fitzgerald-Black about his MA thesis which focused on the allied air campaign in support of Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily....read more

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Haile Selassie’s Mongrel Foreign Legion

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In the classic narrative, the second world war starts with the invasion of Poland in 1939, though for the Chinese it started with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931.

Wikipedia solves the start date by stating ‘relate conflicts started earlier’, and that is what we’ll be looking at...read more

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Rare Footage of French Light Cruiser "Gloire", in Dazzle Camouflage, Firing Guns Supporting the Allied Landings in Mediterranean Waters in 1944

In February, she supported the Allied landings at Anzio, bombarding enemy positions in the Bay of Gaete (firing 604 rounds) and transporting troops to Italy and Corsica. After a refit at Algiers between 27 April and 17 June, she participated in the landing in the south of France (Operation...read more

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Rare Footage of French Light Cruiser "Gloire" in Dazzle Camouflage, Firing Guns supporting the Allied landings in Mediterranean Waters in 1944

In February, she supported the Allied landings at Anzio, bombarding enemy positions in the Bay of Gaete (firing 604 rounds) and transporting troops to Italy and Corsica. After a refit at Algiers between 27 April and 17 June, she participated in the landing in the south of France (Operation...read more

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Allied Invasion of Southern France - Operation Dragoon, the Other D-Day

This video presents the story of Operation Dragoon in World War II. The original title of this video is: "Command Decision: The Invasion of Southern France (1963)". The documentary is a part of "The Big Picture" series produced by the U.S. Army.

About Operation Dragoon:...read more

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