by WWIIPodcast | May 6, 2025 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Writer Becky Aikman tells the story of American female pilots that chose to go to Britain, to fly for the Air Transport Auxiliary. While flying Spitfires and Hurricanes, they live their lives to the fullest. It’s a new land and a new chance to reinvent...
by WWIIPodcast | May 2, 2025 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
As the Stavka made the South its main area of operations in 1942, saving Stalingrad was only the beginning. Next, the Italians were wiped out, then the Romanians were finished off. Now, it was the Hungarian’s turn and what was coming at them was a tidal wave of steel,...
by WWIIPodcast | Apr 29, 2025 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
With the 8th Italian Army destroyed, the Soviets will now focus on the German forces SE of Stalingrad and the 2nd Hungarian Army. The US liaison officer will see the results of these battles and report the slaughter to FDR. Meanwhile, Gen. Manstein is forced to order...
by WWIIPodcast | Apr 25, 2025 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Picking another weak point of the Axis defensive line to the NW of Stalingrad, the Italian 8th, the Hungarian 2nd and what remained of the Romanian 3rd Armies would be attacked. Then the airfield feeding Gen. Paulus’ 6th Army would be raided. The German forces would...
by WWIIPodcast | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Operation Mars was the sister Soviet counter attack to Uranus, which freed Stalingrad. But Mars would end very differently for the Soviets. When it was all over, the Stavka would turn their attention back to the south.
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