by WWIIPodcast | Aug 20, 2022 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
As The Allies and Axis prepare for a battle at Gazala, Rommel and Gen. Ritchie both feel confident that their plan is best. Yet both sides have weaknesses: Rommel doesn’t know where all the Allied formations are and the British led forces think they have it easier in...
by WWIIPodcast | Aug 13, 2022 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Rommel is able to take Cyrenaica back from the British 8th Army, but between his fuel issues and C in C, ME Auchinleck’s personnel changes, the two sides will stare at each other for a while. But the combat will return as North Africa’s fate will determine the future...
by WWIIPodcast | Aug 8, 2022 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
With the failure of Gen. Auchinleck’s Operation Crusader, at the end of 1941, Rommel resupplies and heads out again, before the British can start Operation Acrobat, the drive on Tripoli. And like a year ago, the Allies are stretched far too thin and the men are...
by WWIIPodcast | Aug 1, 2022 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Before moving on to Operation Pedestal and then the Eastern Front, Gen. Charles De Gaulle’s moves in West Africa have to be covered. He seeks to rebuild the French Empire by grabbing African lands that went with the Vichy Government after France fell to German...
by WWIIPodcast | Jul 23, 2022 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
In this one off episode, Iceland and Greenland’s participation in the war is covered. Denmark leads these two islands to the north, but when Nazi Germany occupies Denmark, the islands are on their own. Churchill, as the First Lord of the Admiralty decides that these...
