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Absolutely brilliant as usual

Great stuff, will certainly try and get to waysfest V 🤗

Trump?

Wait for famine? How many civilians were the Japanese military killing every week while waiting?

Brilliant, thoroughly enjoyed this!

''no cigarettes' - brilliant!

Thank you James and Al.

Before MacArthur got married in the 1930's he had a 16 year old Phillipino girlfriend. She lived with him in Manila and Washington D.C. everyone knew. MacArthur was a pedophile! I've lost respect for him. Also he and his chief of Staff were bastards!

In the Korean War the 4 barrel 50-cal machine gun machines were known as Quad-50s, firing 2 barrels at a time with 2 resting up.

Great chat. Would love to take that 12 week course!!! ua-cam.com/video/GolPKqK9KpY/v-deo.html looks at the average age (and gender) of participants in the Brtish military over the years compared to how they have been portrayed in films etc. ( with the exception of Dad;s Army!)... It goes on to mention how Ukraine appears to changing the trend.

We had highly intelligent and experienced leaders from Alanbrooke downwards. Not so today. The leaders back then had survived WW1 and most of them knew their business. Not all e.g. Hitler

There are Muskowite and Ukrainian units taking those losses and fighting on right now James.

One interesting statistic (Of many that one could use here!) was that the Allied mobile field-workshop repair & reconditioning units (REME, RCEME & US Mechanical Engineers), particularly in the British & Canadian sectors were able to repair & return to active service, over 70% of all their hitherto knocked out armoured vehicles (Tanks, self-propelled guns, personnel carriers, reconnaissance vehicles etc.) within a 4 to 5 days timespan of being knocked out & towed to these field repair workshops on site just behind the frontlines during the Normandy Campaign in 1944! Insufficient credit & recognition have been since really accorded to these indispensable units’s battlefield services, in the particularly efficient & effective ways they were actually able to repair & recycle so many damaged & discarded armoured fighting vehicles that proved to have a critically positive impact on the successful outcome on the overall operationally successful combat results for the Allied side in this Campaign! Not to mention also the ingenuity & improvised acuity of their professional field skills in introducing items such as in the US sectors of the “Rhino-Hedge-Cutting/Bulldozing Devices” composed entirely of ‘cannibalized parts’ of the fixed German Beach Defences & steel obstacles there, then adapting these onto welded steel frames & then fixing these adapted frames & self-fabricated blades etc., onto the fronts of Sherman & Stuart Tanks, in order to cut effectively through hedgerows & other vegetation that served as obstacles to the American & Allied Advance in the infamous “Bocage” countryside in Normandy then! Otherwise, how quickly these same units were also able to repair & returned the numerous invaluable & devastatingly effective “Specialized Armored Vehicles” of the British 79th Armoured Division (Hobart’s Funnies) back into active service after they had suffered catastrophic damage or else somehow broken down on combat deployment there!

-- I suspect that the enemy hoped to inflict maximum casualties and demonstrate that invading Germany would be too costly (pre A bomb thinking) to pursue, and thereby play to the allied and especially the US homefront. The most optimisticbobjectives and hopes of inflaming conflicts of interest among the Anglo American allies was just wishful thinking. Good thing we had huge concentrations of artillery on Northern flanks of the bulge. Even so, the Northern route wasn't at all suited to heavy tanks and long columns during that time of year and enemy would have had problems keeping to time tables without opposition. By December 24 the USAAF was again on the loose and chewing up any daytime movement or junctions etc; time was up and the offensive was stalked out, and then they tried it again in Jan with Nordwind and Bodenplatte. Enemy had no chance. Japans mission had also changed toward efforts to simply inflict as many casualties as possible in hopes of persuade US homefront that the continuation of war was too costly and painful... Nothing worked out for them.

Peter and John together. Now that is a nice pairing.

Actually, pretty well timed if ask me.

Speaking of Luftwaffe Jazz lovers. There was this guy called Hans Joachim Marseille, who played Jazz to Hitler.

two idiots who have never been been in combat..laughing like bloody morons

Thank you Al, James and Roger.

who should i believe? James Holland and Dutch historian R G Poulussen or some inbreed who reside in the rural mountain town of Odd, West Virginia called Bigwoody4704...i think my money is on Mr Holland and R G Poulussen.

Some really good insights into an event i thought i already knew a lot about!

First!

Some of you have failed to realise its the 80th anniversary of this event. Nothing to do with Trump at all. Grow up.

Wonderful conversation with Des, and a heartwarming finale.

Des is so lucid, with great humour, a real tribute to those young men, barely into their 20s.

Who is this 'Hilter' of which you speak?

Really great episode, but very poorly timed. As my kids would say, learn to read the room.

How fortuitous that this was released at THIS particular point in time. 🙄

My Grandfather Landed on The Anzio Beachhead as a Canadian Member of The U.S./Canada First Special Service Force ( Black Devil's/Devil's Brigade). Their Commanding officer was Col.Robert T Frederick and they were attached to General Mark Clarke's 5th American Army.

Thank you James and John.

I an really glad you have done an episode on Saipan, be it a very short one. Here is why this battle is little known in Europe; you have done one 45 minute episode on Saipan but sixteen episodes on D-Day and the subsequent battles total about 12 hours of coverage. If people don't talk aboit something it will be forgotten.

45 minutes is really too little time to talk of Saipan. Bill and Seth has three ( I think it is three) really good episodes on it- IMO some of the best they have done on any subject. And with Jon Parshall, who basically makes everything better.

Absolutely brilliant James is incredible at bringing the story over Thank you

I think it fortunate that the Allies basically gave the Germans an impossible tactical/strategic problem set. Because their air and naval power gave them the ability to attack almost anywhere in Europe, the Germans had to defend everywhere and hence were always going to be relatively weak in most places. The rational course for the Germans after mid-43, with the setback at Kursk and the loss of Sicily, was to read the writing on the wall and sue for peace. But the Germans, had they been rational, would never have started the war in the first place.

Anthony Blunt gave the Germans the plans in order to help the Soviets reach Berlin first

The 17 stone Wehrmacht re-enactors - the Internet has coined "Pizzagrenadiers" for them.

Tank Action by David Render ….Breakout…page 168-170.

I went by motorbike from Paris to Arromanche via Mt Ormell and Falaise…..the year Obama was present. All the flags were flying from Mt Ormell onwards which I found impressive. The reenactors I found initially very uncomfortable, but I camped among them in the Municipal campsite at Arromanche, and then I realised it was a celebration of their liberation, and not in bad taste, but the reverse. I discovered Crépon and the Green Howards/Stan Hollis memorial, and was invited to a service a week later , by the Mayor. I was very impressed by the dignity and respect shown by the very many local people who attended.

I have always wondered why no follow up was considered for Normandy. Getting ashore and getting a foothold is objective one. But did no one seriously consider what comes after? The more I read about the post-Normandy battle is a bit of an improvised plan, it would make sense to after an after plan for driving to Germany.

Now when is it going to be a movie or a series? 🤔

Met these guys at hillman bunker a few weeks ago...top chaps!

Chamberlain; the role model of any and all western "leaders" since 2004. Including the same silly belief as 05:50

This and part 1 are absolute jewels, one minute I'm smiling like an idiot next im moved to tears. please do more with Mr Johnson

Thank you.

wow - what a find - thanks guys . . 52nd was my grandas regiment - i believe at the end . . he was the driver for Edmund Hakewill-Smith . . he only made a couple - but referenced being his driver during trials. . but iv just read mountain and flood, and now heard this . . amasing stuff

Absolutely loved these episodes, the impersonating of the characters are brilliantly funny. ✌️🇬🇧🤣

I’d be interested to learn more of the press interference with the US command the guys mentioned

My name is Stephen Hardy from Boston, Massachusetts. I have been a long time listener, but not any more. Not after Mr. Murray's asinine impersonation of what he believes is an American accent. I understand that He thinks of himself as a humorist, but this is simple beyond acceptable taste. As for Mr. Holland, I am disappointed. I thought he was better than this.

26:54 The old Bangalore Torpedo trick!

Great episode. The American accents are "humorous". 😊