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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

USA - We Have Ways: Tidal Wave

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It was one of the United States Army Air Forces' most ambitious bombing campaigns in 1943. Why were the Nazis so reliant on the Ploiesti oil fields in Romania and how successful was the daytime raid? James Holland and John McManus discuss Operation Tidal Wave. They explain why the Nazis were so reliant on the Ploiesti oil fields in Romania and analyse the success of the daytime raid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.0

Acton, acton, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk, USA and with me, James Holland

0:16.0

and with John Manus, we haven't got out today because Al is doing the recording the audio

0:21.2

of my new book, Savage Storm and he's trying to get it finished this week.

0:28.0

So yeah, so I'm kind of a little bit nervous about what he's going to make of it all, but

0:31.7

anyway, he's he's in the recording studio, a different recording studio, say, but anyway,

0:36.0

so John, you know, but that's a matter, I mean, yeah, so we always want Al, but you know,

0:39.8

we can chat on our own, come on.

0:40.8

Absolutely.

0:41.8

Very happily.

0:42.8

So, so how are you?

0:43.8

What news?

0:44.8

Are you, are you kind of sort of getting ready for term?

0:47.0

I am.

0:48.0

Yeah, it starts a week from today.

0:49.0

Oh my recording out of 15th and my classes start the 22nd and we will be often running.

0:54.2

So I got four classes, it's going to be going to be not so, but only a good way.

0:59.5

Good.

1:00.5

Well, I'm, it's weird having had the nonfiction Savage Storm kind of put to bed.

1:06.3

I'm now, I'm now back on novel, you know, and I haven't, I've written loads of novels,

1:10.9

but I haven't written one for a few years, so it's been a kind of interesting experience.

1:14.4

But this is all kind of, this is all set back in, well, kind of 1939, 1940, so it's the

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