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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In September 1944 the Allied ground troops of Operation Market Garden smashed their way north towards the beleaguered British troops holding on in Arnhem. Seventy five years later James Holland rides in a Sherman tank up the same road outside Nijmegen and towards the Groesbeek Heights. A Goalhanger Films Production. 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

Hello, welcome to day six of Arnhem, we have Ways, James Holland and I, Almarie, and

0:12.2

Barsking and Gloria's touch sunshine.

0:14.2

Yeah we are.

0:15.2

By the river Arnhem, but we've done a lot of market haven't we?

0:17.3

We've done all the market, but we've done that little tonight.

0:19.4

No garden.

0:20.4

No garden, because after all that's what the codename means.

0:22.8

The market is the airborne component.

0:24.2

Garden is second-armory or third-dicorn.

0:27.1

Thrusting.

0:28.1

Dynamically up, north.

0:30.4

Yes.

0:31.4

And third-dicorn has had some criticism, it's fair to say, for not being fast enough and

0:36.2

being a bit stodgy and all the rest of it, there is this kind of thing.

0:38.5

You know, why did Horricks not order them off until, you know, after lunch on the day one?

0:43.7

Yes, that's really weird.

0:44.9

On the day one.

0:45.9

And also they've held that side of the sun canal for at least ten days and done, and not

0:50.8

done anything with it.

0:51.8

And so there isn't sort of a sense of that.

0:54.3

There is a sense of sort of, there's a bit of a lack of urgency and it's interesting

0:57.5

Horricks, because there's another time in the war where he's also missed a golden opportunity

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