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The History of WWII Podcast

Episode 360-The Germans Have Returned

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Education, Society & Culture, History

4.54.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

As winter sets in on the Eastern Front, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring is given Luftflotte 2, submarines and motor torpedo boats. His task is to subdue Malta. And he is well on his way as the Italians launch a daring underwater raid on Adm. Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet at Alexandria and London is loath to send Spitfires, the only plane the British have to take on the vaunted Messerschmitt 109s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.7

Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast, episode 360,

1:12.4

The Germans have returned.

1:15.2

As covered last time, RAF pilot Tom Neal would be heading home in December of 1941 and his

1:21.9

feelings on that covered the spectrum.

1:25.2

He was relieved, happy, joyful even.

1:28.5

But he would miss his friends and you, they would be up against it as rumors were going

1:33.2

around that the Germans were returning to Sicily.

1:36.7

Still, his new post as Tactics Officer for Number 81 Group would allow him to contribute

1:42.9

to the war effort, but it was time for other men to learn what he had learned.

1:48.5

That is, if they survived the deadly lessons of their combat.

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