138. St Nazaire Raid

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, History, Education

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It was one of the most audacious raids of the Second World War. A combined Royal Navy and British Commando attack on the Normandie dry dock in German occupied France.

But was it worth the high human cost to stop the German warship Tirpitz potentially breaking out into the Atlantic?

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0:00.0	A tentier, a tentier, which is of course Dutch and indeed Flemish for Achtung, Achtung.
0:13.6	Correct me on the pronunciation please, I expect RG, Poulison will be in to straight
0:18.6	me out there.
0:19.7	It seems only appropriate to use the language of the low countries in the week that marks
0:23.1	the 80th anniversary of the time those same countries were brought to their lowest
0:26.3	deb by the invading German troops.
0:28.8	In fact Sunday was the anniversary of the British Expeditionary Force Commander General
0:32.2	Lord Gort ordering his troops to fall back to the Shelter River.
0:36.1	Now if only we had one of those, you know, bookish, knowledgeable historians to hand, one
0:39.9	of those chaps who knows what this all means.
0:42.0	But wait, who do I see emerging from the Wiltshire mist in battle dress and flying goggles
0:46.1	via the mirror?
0:47.1	That's right.
0:48.1	It's none other than James Holland, author of such well known tales as War in the West
0:52.4	Volumes 1 and 2.
0:53.4	And not as yet, Volumes, no spoilers, but Volumes 3 isn't yet complete, is it James?
0:58.8	It's not yet.
0:59.8	It happens at the end.
1:00.8	Well I was going to do it this year, but the trouble is I'm not going to be able to get
1:02.4	to half the archives I need to get to.
1:04.7	Yeah.
1:05.7	Yeah, or certainly I've got plan on it.
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