3/8: Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day, by James Holland
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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In the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand out, and among the most notable were the Sherwood Rangers. Originally a cavalry unit in the last days of horses in combat, whose officers were landed gentry leading men who largely worked for them, they were switched to the “mechanized cavalry” of tanks in 1942. Winning acclaim in the North African campaign, the Sherwood Rangers then spearheaded one of the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944; led the way across France; were the first British troops to cross into Germany, and contributed mightily to Germany’s surrender in May 1945.
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| 0:29.7 | This is CBSi and the world. I'm John Bachelor with the historian James Holland. |
| 0:36.2 | His new book is Brothers in Arms, one legendary tank regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to V-E-Day. |
| 0:42.0 | We've got them on shore. We've got them over the mission now, and their mission is the |
| 0:46.9 | high ground, as James is going to introduce us to a big picture of why watching the Sherman range the Sherwood Rangers |
| 0:56.9 | Yeomanry and their engagement their gunfight is part of the larger |
| 1:01.8 | story of the Allied success from 6 June until the capture of Paris |
| 1:06.5 | and then all across France and Belgium. |
| 1:08.5 | James, it's always been part of the story that Khan, the big city, was supposed to be captured |
| 1:16.3 | within first hours or first days by Montgomery's Army Corps and that the failure to capture con for many weeks was a weakness in the Allied |
| 1:28.3 | plan. |
| 1:29.3 | That was always the reporting back home. |
| 1:32.0 | Not accurate and you're going to illustrate in your you |
| 1:36.2 | illustrate in your story the facts of the Sherwood Rangers and also all of the British and Canadian and Scottish divisions locking horns |
| 1:47.7 | with the very best the Germans had. |
| 1:49.7 | You mentioned the 12 SS-Pansers who have already committed war crimes by executing Canadians, but also arriving |
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