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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

264. The Wings of Pegasus, By George Chatterton - Episode 18

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Brigadier George Chatterton's memoirs, read by Al Murray, tell the extraordinary story of his time as a soldier for the British Army who then went on to become the Commander of the Glider Pilot Regiment during the Second World War. A Goalhanger Films production Produced by Joey McCarthy 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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0:35.2

The Wings of Pegasus by George Chatterton, Chapter 11, Aftermath of Arnhem.

0:41.5

The regiment, or what was left of it, now returned to its basis and we had time to think again.

0:47.3

We had been badly moulded and I was at a loss to know how to reorganise.

0:50.5

For it was almost impossible to recreate the regiment because of the long preparation

0:54.6

needed in the RAF training schools.

0:56.7

It looked very much as if we had come to a standstill.

0:59.8

It was then that I was sent for to attend a conference at the War Office.

1:03.8

I arrived to find myself sitting at a table surrounded by British and American officers.

1:08.4

In the chair was General Broughton, the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Airborne Army.

1:13.8

This was the latest Allied Force and consisted of the first and six airborne divisions,

1:17.9

British Army, and the 82nd and 17th Airborne Division's United States Army,

1:22.7

a formidable force indeed, with a carrier fleet of two groups of RAF bombers and decoters

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