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Hello there, Almari here.

Just before this episode of We Have Ways of Making You Talk gets going.

I just wanted to let you know that this is in fact our 700th episode of the podcast.

All those years ago when James and I got going on this not for one moment we imagine we'd still be doing it all this time later.

But it's really thanks to you our listeners for lending us your ears that's enabled us to get to episode 700 and to be still bursting with more ideas

and more interesting things to talk about in the war waffle setting.

Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy this episode 700.

Acting, acting, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me James Holland and with John Manus in St Louis, Missouri.

And we're joined today by a very special guest, a former soldier and paratrooper. Is that right James? James Fennell?

That's right.

And also lastly an author and historian and you write James about those forgotten airborne heroes.

We all know about easy company, we all know about 101st and we all know quite a lot about the 82nd airborne.

But we don't know so much about the 17th airborne and you wrote about them in that in four hours of fury or about the crossing the Rhine.

And then one we're talking about today, which is my new heroes, the 11th airborne angels against the sun.

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