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 Lieutenant) December 02, 2018

The Italian Army In North Africa

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Long standing listeners will have heard Angus chat to Walter Zapotoczny before, in episode 57 they looked at Ardennes offensive, and in episode 63 they looked at ...read more

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 Lieutenant) November 15, 2018

The Forgotten Dead: Exercise Tiger

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‘On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings…’

This is very much an...read more

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 Lieutenant) November 01, 2018

Bones of My Grandfather

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US Marine, Lt Alexander Bonnymanlanded on Tarawa in December 1942. He was mortally wounded leading an assault on a Japanese bunker, which was key to defense of the island, and act for which he would posthumously...read more

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 Lieutenant) August 15, 2018

Ghost Riders: Operation Cowboy

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Last year Angus talked to Mark Felton about the escape attempts of British VIP prisoners, held by the Italians. That was episode 49 Castle of...read more

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 Lieutenant) August 01, 2018

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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 Lieutenant) April 01, 2018

The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign

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The Guadalcanal Campaign was the the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Japan.

On 7 August 1942, Allied forces, predominantly United States Marines, landed on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon Islands, with the objective of denying their use by the...read more

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 Lieutenant) February 15, 2018

RAF Liberators Over Burma: Flying with 159 Squadron

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If Slim’s 14th army was the ‘Forgotten Army’ the RAF bombing campaign in the Far East is even more forgotten!

In this episode Angus talks to Matt Poole.

Matt's mother is from Liverpool, her first husband was in the RAF serving in Burma when he was shot down over Rangoon. In trying...read more

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 Lieutenant) January 15, 2018

Case Red: The Collapse of France

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In this episode Angus is looking at ‘Case Red’ the German attack on France post Dunkirk. Often when we talk about the Battle of France the history seems to stop at Dunkirk, in actual fact the fight carried on for a few more weeks. There was still British 100,000+ troops in France, Churchill was...read more

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 Lieutenant) December 15, 2017

The 110th Holds In The Ardennes, 1944

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This episode is being released on the 15th of December, the eve of the Battle of the Bulge. It was the 16th of December 1944 that Hitler launched Operation Watch on the Rhine, the last great offensive in the...read more

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 Lieutenant) December 01, 2017

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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