251. Gliders

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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After reading George Chatterton’s autobiography Al Murray wonders if glider operations were ever really a good idea. Meanwhile James Holland discusses supply lines in North Africa and Italy. Both Al and James promise to dig deeper into the lesser known battles in Burma. We Have Ways has a membership club which includes a live version of the podcast streamed on the internet each Thursday evening. Join at Patreon.com/wehaveways A Goalhanger Films production Produced by Harry Lineker Exec Producer Tony Pastor Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod Website: www.wehavewayspod.com Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm going to go to the next one.
0:07.0	I'm going to go to the next one.
0:11.0	Attention, which is Italian for Acton.
0:15.0	Those of you listening to my reading of George Chattadon,
0:17.0	the Wings of Pegasus at the moment,
0:19.0	will know that the battered and half-drowned glider pilot regiment
0:22.0	have landed in Sicily or in George Chattadon's case
0:25.0	off the coast of Sicily.
0:27.0	James, welcome. How are you doing?
0:29.0	Thank you.
0:30.0	Thank you.
0:31.0	Let's be honest now, because you've written about it
0:33.0	in considerable detail.
0:35.0	Yeah, and I've written about George Chattadon as well.
0:37.0	It's a total mess, isn't it?
0:39.0	It's a total mess, that operation.
0:41.0	Absolutely. It's just so ridiculous.
0:43.0	And it becomes even more... I mean, it's ridiculous
0:45.0	when you think out of 147 gliders,
0:48.0	four landed where they were supposed to.
0:51.0	Yes.
0:52.0	147 just four.
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