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The History of WWII Podcast

Episode 404-Operation Pedestal: First Blood

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.54.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Churchill pushes to have the largest convoy thus far, sent to Malta. Yet the Germans and Italians are ready. Before the Merchantmen and the tanker Ohio can reach Malta, they will have to survive both enemy's air forces and U-boats, not to mention Italy's cruiser squadrons. Not everyone is expected to make it through. Then again, that was expected as well. It's crunch time for Malta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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ship USS Normandy caught fire and sank in Hudson River only weeks before it was to be retrofitted

1:02.7

for military service. That same month, 31 US ships were torpedoed by German U-boats.

1:09.8

That was February 1942. Military brass could not help but suspect sabotage. To protect

1:17.4

New York's valuable port, the Navy enlisted Lucky Luciano and his dangerous mob to patrol

1:24.3

and spy. A Navy meets mobster story, the new book Operation Underworld, how the Mafia

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and the US government teamed up to win World War II. Is the first ever account of the war

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efforts planned thatstein coalition between the Mafia and the US government, which helped

1:42.6

the Allies win World War II. Journalist and crime historian Matthew Black reveals the

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