Just as Army Group Center goes over to a defensive stance, Stalin launches his counter attack. The...
Podcast Episodes
Episode 481-Victoring Itself to Death
As Army Group Center winds down its offensive during Operation Typhoon, due to a lack of supplies,...
Episode 480-Japanese Americans at War
Out of the Internment Camps, thousands of Nisei Japanese Americans volunteer for the U.S. Armed...
Episode 423-Pedestal: The Final Curtain
The final episode of Operation Pedestal. Through luck and determination and American engineering, the Ohio holds together long enough, to bring her in to Valletta Harbor. And so the various machines of war on Malta have a new lease on life. They can continue to harass...
Episode 422-By the Skin of Her Teeth
As everyone on Malta, and in Britain and in the US and in North Africa wait, the tanker Ohio, carrying much needed oil to the island, slowly crawls towards Valletta Harbor. Yet at any moment, an Axis air attack could come or the tanker may simply split in two, given...
Episode 421-It’s Today or Nothing
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....
Episode 420-Interview w/ James B. Conroy about his book, The Devils Will Get No Rest
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....
Episode 419-Across the Finish Line
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,...
Episode 418-The Show Must Go On
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...