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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

6. A Foothold in France

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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James Holland discusses the early planning of Operation Overlord while Al Murray debates the merits of the PIAT, the British hand-held anti-tank weapon with a mixed reputation. 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

The Red Tia Bracati, I think, which of course is Romanian for Achtung Achtung.

0:12.0

It's getting more rewarding. It certainly is. I'm Al Murray and you're listening to We Have

0:17.4

Ways That Make You Talk for Any New Comers, a quick word of explanation. This is the Second

0:21.9

World War podcast which rambles off up blind alleys and gets trapped in small haylofts

0:25.8

just as the Germans come storming into the front yard. We have almost no discipline and

0:29.9

very little respect for authority. If you're looking for a linear narrative, you've come to

0:33.4

the wrong place. But if you want to find out about Forgotten Heroes and Destiny Villains,

0:38.6

this is the place for you. Thank you, Al and we've had a lot of questions

0:43.3

into our hashtag We Have Ways and we're planning to answer as many of those as we can

0:48.1

over the next 45 minutes or so. So please do keep sending them in. We'll do our level

0:53.5

best to answer as many as we possibly can. There's certainly leaning us down some fascinating

0:58.0

parts and how about a few kind words for the ridiculously underappreciated Brigadier

1:04.9

Frederick Morgan and his regrettory out of print memoir Over Ture to Overland, Overlord

1:09.6

Lads. That's my friend Mike Doleland who's in Washington. He's an editor of History

1:14.6

magazine in the USA and a fine fellow he is too. Yeah, well, Frederick Morgan is actually

1:22.0

serves in his brigade commander. If I remember rightly in Norway in 1940, you know, rather

1:27.7

sort of failed in the day. Yeah, yeah, to bark or not at sea, but on land. Well, they

1:33.6

do quite well at sea, but on land, certainly they don't. The British Army doesn't do particularly

1:36.8

well. It comes back and yeah, in April 1943, he's made a Kossak, which is Chief of Staff

1:42.2

of the Supreme Allied Commander and they and his team are given the tools with which to

1:48.8

kind of start doing early preliminary plans for Operation Overlord, which is going to

1:53.9

be D-Day and the Inversion of Normandy. Yeah. So they've basically got someone in who

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