Between The Lines - Ep 7
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Goalhanger Podcasts
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Welcome along to a new episode of our new, We Have Ways series - Between the Lines.
Between The Lines is a We Have Ways production
Julia ‘Ma’ Blyth is read by Ruth Sillers
David Blyth is read by Matthew Malthouse
Oscar Griswold is read by Michael Lyons
Chester Hansen is read by Lance Fuller
Vere Hodgson is read by Rachel Holland
Heinz Knoke is read by Lukas Wechsler
Bertie Packer is read by Paul Waggott
Jack Ward is read by Adam Jarrell
Harry Wilson is read by Joel Emery
Narration is by James Holland and Al Murray
Editing by Jon Gill and Joey McCarthy
Written and produced by Merryn Walters
The executive producer is Tony Pastor
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this edition of Between the Lines, the podcast that desiphers the |
| 0:17.1 | handwriting, unfolds faded pages and dips into the details of Diaries, log books and letters |
| 0:24.0 | written during this same week, there or thereabouts, in 1943, some 80 years ago. |
| 0:31.0 | Let's start with a quick recap of the situation. |
| 0:43.0 | This is of course the week in which Operation Chastise took place, 80 years ago. |
| 0:51.0 | Nineteen bombers took off from RAF scampton in Lincolnshire for their low-level raid on three dams in the Rua Valley, the |
| 0:57.0 | Murna, the Ada and the Sopi, all key structures in Germany's industrial heartland. |
| 1:02.0 | We'll hear more from flight lieutenant Charlie Williams of 617 Squadron shortly. |
| 1:08.0 | Elsewhere in Europe, the British French and US were holding a victory parade in Tunis having routed the |
| 1:13.0 | Axis forces in North Africa. We are masters of North Africa's shores, signal general Alexander, on the |
| 1:19.0 | 13th of May, and now more than 250,000 German and Italian troops were in the bag, while a massive aircraft tank's |
| 1:26.0 | gun shipping and other war material had been destroyed. |
| 1:29.0 | Make no mistake, it was a great victory for the Allies and a terrible defeat for the Axis. |
| 1:34.0 | Next up for the Allies was Sicily, Operation Husky was due to be launched in the second week of July. |
| 1:41.0 | However, it's also a hive of activity Axis forces, not least in Rome, where the Germans are beginning to have major |
| 1:48.0 | doubts their Italian ally has much stomach left for the fight. |
| 1:51.0 | We'll start by catching up with Dr. Wilhelm Maus, a medical officer who's now on route to Rome and a new |
| 1:58.0 | post as Chief Medical Officer for 14 Pansicle, destroyed at Stalingrad, but reforming Phoenix-like in Italy. |
| 2:07.0 | 19th May 1943, a new order for development suddenly explodes like a bomb in our quiet existence. |
| 2:15.0 | I was about to ask the Chief of Staff for a trip to the South of France when all section commanders were told to see him. |
| 2:21.0 | He told us our staff was being relocated to Italy. Details are not known. |
| 2:26.0 | We only know the General Hube who fly directly from the east and front and report in Rome on the 19th May. |
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