63. Johannes Steinhoff - Straits of Messina

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today James is reading from Straits of Messina, by Johannes Steinhoff.

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0:00.0	Feli
0:14.8	Oh we've seen RockNго各位 I was doing my impression there
0:17.4	Oh right ok!
0:18.4	No I haven't
0:19.4	I'm not a Christian tho
0:20.8	don't worry I am aroyo
0:21.4	Feli's Feli's N page
0:27.2	English
0:28.6	In this bonus Christmas series of We Have Ways To Make You Talk
0:31.8	James Holland and I are reading passages from some of our favorite wartime books
0:35.4	James what you got for us today for Christmas Eve what's in your stocking
0:39.7	Well it is the Straits of Messina by Johannes Steinhot for Mackey Steinhot for as he was known
0:45.9	and actually it's been republished quite recently as
0:50.3	Measuresmiths over Sicily
0:52.7	Right but I can't prefer the original title of the person
0:55.2	I prefer the original title that's a bit on the nose isn't it
0:58.3	and they'd be like calling first like Spitfire's Overkin
1:06.8	Very early we were at Readiness
1:08.7	Cuddle Abund's Fighter Wing the third wing in my group had flown over from Sardinia the previous evening
1:13.5	their arrival coinciding with that of Myers and one wing of the Ace of Spades group
1:18.2	Trappani Airfield was now crowded with Measuresmith fighters
1:21.6	as if for an air display and we were very well aware of the disastrous consequences
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