Episode 424-Operation Sledgehammer

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.5 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Operation Pedestal would ensure that Malta stayed in the fight. But Stalin is not appeased. He wants a Second Front. So does Gen. George Marshall and he’s coming to London to say so. The British had to come up with a plan, big enough to impress the Russian and the American, but good enough not to get everyone killed. Enter the new head of Combined Operations, Lord Louis Mountbatten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.1	Episode 424, Operation Slatch Hammer.
1:08.5	During the series on Operation pedestal, we got a glimpse of the pressure,
1:12.9	Churchill and FDR were under in appeasing Stalin,
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