SPECIAL - Easy Company

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

History

4.8 • 971 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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1942 - 1945 - Easy Company were such a closely knit unit of men, that they have been referred to as a "band of brothers", a phrase inspired by the writing of William Shakespeare. Follow the Second World War story of these United States army paratroopers.

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0:00.0	The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.
0:17.0	This episode is a special episode on the subject of Easy Company. Oh, E company were associated with the American paratroopers during World War II.
0:58.0	Paratrooping was a relatively new innovation in warfare that involved using aircraft to drop parachutists behind enemy lines.
1:09.0	The idea of dropping soldiers from the air behind enemy lines existed long before the Second World War, but it was during the Second World War that it became a significant practical reality.
1:30.0	The Germans were the first to start using paratroopers on a large scale in 1940, when they're branch of paratroopers which they called the Falcheme Yeager landed in Belgium and then in
1:37.4	1941 on the Greek island of Crete. The British would also use paratroopers in Italy.
1:47.0	The Declaration of War on Germany by the British is cited by most as
1:52.4	symbolising the start of the Second World War in 1939.
1:58.1	The Germans blitshed their way through Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and into France. Initially Germany and their allies would battle
2:09.6	with Britain and their allies until Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
2:15.0	Previously the Germans and the Soviets had a political agreement with each other
2:21.0	but the agreement ended with the German invasion in 1941. The Soviets were able to
2:27.9	resist the German invasion but at a great cost to their nation.
2:33.1	At this point the Soviets started to fight back and the British were also making advances
2:38.6	against Germany's greatest European ally, Italy. This meant that the Germans were exhausting their resources
2:46.5	in support of Italy, weakening their general situation.
2:52.4	In the meantime and on the other side of the world there was an ongoing war
2:56.2	between Japan and China. Japan was trying to expand their imperial influence
3:02.2	over the Far East, including many Pacific islands.
3:06.0	To sustain their war, the Japanese would also need oil,
3:10.0	and there were significant supplies in the area in and around the East Indies.
3:16.5	This was a huge concern for the United States as it would interfere in their own
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