122 episodes
Why We Fight ~ 1944 Sasha Maggio (MoT)
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5.0 • 25 Ratings
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Season two of the largest Combined, Joint, Multinational Military History effort focuses on American and Allied Forces in Europe and the Pacific through 1944.
The 1943 series ended up with 108 episodes with contributions from across all US services, as well as contributions from our British and Canadian friends, and more.
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The Nuremberg Raid - March 1944
In this episode, Dr. Thomas Bradbeer talks to me about the Royal Air Force raid on Nuremberg at the end of March in 1944. He also details some of the tactics these pilots and aircrews used, as well as the challenges they faced with the Luftwaffe, and towards the end of the episode we talk a bit about his work with the US Army's Command and General Staff College in the Department of Command and Leadership.
Links
Books by Dr. Thomas Bradbeer (https://www.amazon.com/Books-Thomas-G-Bradbeer/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AThomas+G.+Bradbeer)
Army University Press SMEs (https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Experts/)
Mother of Tanks website (www.motheroftanks.com)
Why We Fight Bonus Content (https://www.patreon.com/motheroftanks)
One of the photos in the title graphic was downloaded from the British Imperial War Museum: ©IWM(CH12598)
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The Battles of Imphal and Kohima
In this episode, Christopher Kolakowski returns to tell the story of the Battles of Imphal and Kohima in March-July 1944.
Links
Wisconsin Veterans Museum (https://wisvetsmuseum.com/)
Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 by Field-Marshal Viscount (https://shorturl.at/BDWZ6)
Nations in the Balance: The India-Burma Campaigns, December 1943 - August 1944 by Christopher L. Kolakowski (https://shorturl.at/qtDPY)
"Is That the End or Do We Go On?": The Battle of Kohima, 1944 by Christopher L. Kolakowski (https://history.army.mil/armyhistory/AH-Magazine/2019AH_spring/AH111(W).pdf)
Road of Bones: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944 by Fergal Keane (https://shorturl.at/uwKVX)
United States Army in World War II: China-Burma-India Theater:
Stilwell's Mission to China (https://history.army.mil/html/books/009/9-1/CMH_Pub_9-1.pdf)
Stilwell's Command Problems (https://history.army.mil/html/books/009/9-2/CMH_Pub_9-2.pdf)
Time Runs Out in CBI (https://history.army.mil/html/books/009/9-3/CMH_Pub_9-3.pdf)
Mother of Tanks website (www.motheroftanks.com)
Why We Fight Bonus Content (https://www.patreon.com/motheroftanks)
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The Third Battle of Monte Cassino
Frank de Planta joins me again to continue the story of the Allies fighting the Battles of Monte Cassino.
Links
Cassino Battlefields (http://www.cassinobattlefields.co.uk/about/)
US Army Center of Military History - Italy WWII Maps (https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/wwii/part03ETO/anzio/sec04.html)
US Army CMH Video - Anzio Landings in Italy, Monte Cassino, Russian Offensive in Romania WWII Newsreel 70842 (https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/wwii/part03ETO/anzio/sec05.html)
Anzio Beachhead (https://history.army.mil/html/books/100/100-10/CMH_Pub_100-10.pdf)
Anzio (https://history.army.mil/html/books/072/72-19/CMH_Pub_72-19.pdf)
Return to Cassino by Harold L. Bond (https://www.amazon.com/Return-Cassino-memoir-fight-Rome/dp/B0007DZTG0)
Cassino Battlefields Tours (http://www.cassinobattlefields.co.uk/)
Series Website (www.motheroftanks.com)
Bonus Series Content on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/motheroftanks)
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The Chindits & Operation THURSDAY: Long-Range Penetration Groups in the C-B-I Theater
Back again is Christopher Kolakowski, the director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, this time to talk about the Chindits, Long-Range Penetration Groups operation in the China-Burma-India Theater. (In the episode I refer to three episodes contributed by this guest but the third hasn’t been released yet.)
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Operation THURSDAY (https://www.hurlburt.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Fact-Sheets/Article/204577/operation-thursday/)
The Chindits - Operation Thursday (https://thechinditsociety.org.uk/operation-thursday-part-1)
Art of War Papers
Orde Wingate and the British Internal Security Strategy During the Arab Rebellion in Palestine, 1936-1939 (https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/ArtofWar_OrdeWingate1936.pdf)
The Coming of Modern War: The Coalition War in North Burma, 1944 by Christopher Kolakowski, pg. 7-27 (https://history.army.mil/armyhistory/AH-Magazine/2018AH_spring/AH107(W).pdf)
Wisconsin Veterans Museum (https://wisvetsmuseum.com/)
Why We Fight Bonus Content (https://www.patreon.com/motheroftanks)
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The Second Battle of Monte Cassino
Back again is Frank de Planta to continue the story of the Allies fighting the Battles of Monte Cassino.
Links
Cassino Battlefields (http://www.cassinobattlefields.co.uk/about/)
US Army Center of Military History - Italy WWII Maps (https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/wwii/part03ETO/anzio/sec04.html)
US Army CMH Video - Anzio Landings in Italy, Monte Cassino, Russian Offensive in Romania WWII Newsreel 70842 (https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/wwii/part03ETO/anzio/sec05.html)
Anzio Beachhead (https://history.army.mil/html/books/100/100-10/CMH_Pub_100-10.pdf)
Anzio (https://history.army.mil/html/books/072/72-19/CMH_Pub_72-19.pdf)
Return to Cassino by Harold L. Bond (https://www.amazon.com/Return-Cassino-memoir-fight-Rome/dp/B0007DZTG0)
Series Website (www.motheroftanks.com)
Bonus Series Content on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/motheroftanks)
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Merrill's Marauders
Joining me in this episode is Christopher Kolakowski, the director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Chris tells the story of Merrill's Marauders, a unit akin to a task force - a unit that had no identity, no past, and was intended to have no future - and how that unit is connected to our modern day 75th Ranger Regiment.
Links
United States Army in World War II: China-Burma-India Theater
Stilwell's Mission to China (https://history.army.mil/html/books/009/9-1/CMH_Pub_9-1.pdf)
Stilwell's Command Problems (https://history.army.mil/html/books/009/9-2/CMH_Pub_9-2.pdf)
Time Runs Out in CBI (https://history.army.mil/html/books/009/9-3/CMH_Pub_9-3.pdf)
Why We Fight Bonus Content (https://www.patreon.com/motheroftanks)
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