USA - The Struggle for Saint-Lô

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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James Holland and John McManus examine the fierce fighting around Saint-Lô, a vital crossroads in the Normandy campaign. As American forces struggle through the dense hedgerows and fortified German positions, the battle becomes a grim test of endurance and strategy. The hosts unpack the grueling conditions and tactical innovations that defined this critical but often overlooked battle, shedding light on the soldiers’ harrowing experiences on the front lines. A Goalhanger Production Produced by Joey McCarthy Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @‌WeHaveWaysPod Email: [email protected] Join our ‘Independent Company’ to watch our livestreams, get earlybird tickets and our weekly newsletter - packed with deals. Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.1	show tickets that's patron dot com slash we have ways Acton, Actung, Actung.
0:34.4	Welcome to you.
0:35.1	We have ways to make you talk USA with me, James Holland, and with John
0:40.1	McManus in the US.
0:41.8	John, good to see you as always.
0:43.4	How are you?
0:44.4	Great to see you, Jim.
0:45.4	How are things going?
0:46.4	Well, it's been fun, actually.
0:47.4	I've just had a week of walking in the mountains and lakes of the Lake District in in cumbra and northwest England and
0:55.5	then I went and joined my brother Tom over in Northumberland and we did a little bit of
0:59.4	St Oswold's way but you start on the Holy Island at Lindes Farm, which is off the
1:04.8	Northumbrian coast just south of the Scottish border. And as soon as you get
1:08.4	off it, so basically this causeway that runs between the Holy Island and the mainland of England, which at high tide is hidden.
1:15.4	So you have to kind of, you know, time it.
1:17.2	And the footpath goes across the kind of, you know, the mudflats.
1:20.5	Then you're greeted at the end by a long range of Second World War anti-tank blocks, which is very exciting.
1:28.0	Oh my goodness.
1:29.0	And all the way along the November and Coast, there is just one bunker after the other really kind of type
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