123 - Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay
The WW2 Podcast
Angus Wallace
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Bertram Ramsey was the mastermind behind the evacuation of the BEF from France in those crucial weeks at the end of May and the start of June in 1940. It was his planning, determination and leadership which helped evacuate around 338,000 men from Dunkirk. But for this Royal Navy Officer, still officially retired, it was just one landmark operation he was involved with. Ramsey would go on to plan and take part in the invasion of North Africa, Sicily and Normandy; for Overlord he would be in overall command of the naval component of the D-Day landings, Neptune.
But, Admiral Bertram Ramsay is not now a household name, overshadowed by some of his contemporaries. Hopefully in this episode we'll try and put the record straight.
I'm joined by Brian Izzard.
Brian's book Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day: The Vision of Admiral Bertram Ramsay is the first major biography of Ramsay for 50 years!
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast I'm Ang Swallis |
| 0:36.0 | Bertram Ramsey was the mastermind behind the evacuation of the BEF from France |
| 0:42.0 | in those crucial weeks at the end of May and the start of June in 1940. |
| 0:47.0 | It was his planning, determination and leadership which helped evacuate around 338,000 men from the beaches of |
| 0:56.4 | Dunkirk. But for this Royal Navy officer still officially retired it was just one landmark operation he was involved with. |
| 1:06.0 | Ramsey will go on to take part in the invasion of North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, |
| 1:12.0 | and for Overlord he would be in overall command of the naval component |
| 1:16.6 | of the D-Day landings, Neptune. |
| 1:19.4 | But Admiral Bertram Ramsey is not now a household name |
| 1:23.4 | overshadowed by some of his contemporaries. |
| 1:26.4 | Well, hopefully in this episode we'll try and put the record straight. |
| 1:30.4 | I'm joined by Brian IZAD Brian's book, Master Mind of Dunkirk and Dede, the vision of Admiral Bertram |
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