by WWIIPodcast | Jun 16, 2023 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
When the sun rises on August 14th, the Stuka’s and Italian bombers are back. It would only take one bomb landing true to break the Ohio in half. But manning her AA guns are volunteers from previously lost ships who are determined, this will not happen again....
by WWIIPodcast | Jun 13, 2023 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
As the Americans enter the war after the events of Pearl Harbor, the Western Allies have to decide how to fight the war. The Americans have the industry, the British, the experience. But both will have to give to get along so that Hitlerism can be destroyed. Mr....
by WWIIPodcast | Jun 6, 2023 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Some of the merchant ships enter Grand Harbor and Adm. Burrough turns around to make for Gibraltar. But the Maltese notice that only three ships came with Burrough. Where were the others and most importantly, where was the tanker Ohio. She was still a few hours away,...
by WWIIPodcast | May 31, 2023 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
As the escorting destroyers fill up with rescued crewmen, now it’s the Ohio’s turn as her engines give up the ghost. But the men in this story are determined to get her to Malta, by hook or by crook. For her fuel is the difference to whether Malta endures or...
by WWIIPodcast | May 24, 2023 | Featured, Podcast Episodes
Craig Nelson’s book V is For Victory has it all: FDR’s early days of combatting the Great Depression, restoring faith in the country and gearing up for a war that many hoped would never come. But it was FDR putting the country on the right path that got...
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