Episode 409-Will This Day Never End?

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.5 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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It’s still August 12, 1942 and after two large attacks, the Axis now launch their main attack, that afternoon. There were to be Axis dive bombers, torpedo bombers, high level bombers, submarines and torpedo boats. A potpourri of death for the Pedestal Convoy. Yet the Allied carriers did sterling work that day. But one of them will pay the price. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and thank you for listening to The History of World War II podcast, Episode
0:14.4	409 Willis Day Never End.
0:19.4	For the last two episodes, we have covered the earlier events of August 12th, the multi-layered
0:24.9	attacks coming from the Italians and Germans against pedestal.
0:29.6	The Italians had tried a few clever tricks, but they came up short.
0:34.4	The U-boats tried their luck, but were mostly chased away.
0:38.4	But as big as the early morning and then early afternoon attacks had been, the biggest
0:43.0	of them all was about to take place.
0:46.2	Because August 12th was supposed to be from Rome's point of view, pedestals last day.
0:54.4	But it would be inaccurate to say that the Axis powers planned a third big attack on that
0:59.0	day.
1:00.0	No, they mostly the Italians were about to pull out all the stops.
1:05.3	This was to be the attack that either saw a few merchant men left to be destroyed on the
1:11.2	morrow.
1:12.2	That's a different story.
1:13.4	Or at the very least, the Italians were hoping to smash Force X, led by Admiral Burrow,
1:19.5	the close escort force that was to go all the way to Malta, so that the remaining merchant
1:25.2	men could be finished off the next day.
1:27.6	After all, pedestal was by now only some 330 miles from Malta.
1:34.2	And yet, like the first attack of this day, the Italians messed up their own, it has to
1:40.7	be said, brilliant plan.
1:43.0	The idea was to simply overwhelm the collective defensive capabilities of pedestals' escorts.
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