Warbirds of Liberty: The Fantastic Fighting 4th - A Thousand Destroyed (Part 4)

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🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How did The Fourth Fighter Group contribute to D-Day in 1944? Why did The Fourth Fighter Group keeping flying till the last days of the war? What happened to all the aces of The Fourth Fighter group at the end of WW2? Join Al Murray and James Holland for Part 4 of this new series looking at the larger-than-life American aces that flew to every corner of the Nazi empire, starting with Spitfires in the dark days of The Battle Of Britain to P-51 Mustangs at the closing stages of WW2. Start your free trial at ⁠patreon.com/wehaveways⁠ and unlock exclusive content and more. Enjoy livestreams, early access, ad-free listening, bonus episodes, and a weekly newsletter packed with book deals and behind-the-scenes insights. Members also get priority access and discounts to live events. A Goalhanger Production Produced by James Regan Editor: Charlie Rodwell Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Social Producer: Harry Balden Email: wehaveways@goalhanger.com Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
0:05.4	Sign up to our Patreon to receive bonus content, live streams and our weekly newsletter with money off books and museum visits as well.
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0:16.0	That's patreon.com slash we have ways.
0:39.9	This war is my chance. I don't want to go back after the war and pilot an airliner between New York and Cincinnati.
0:42.8	I want to come out of it with more planes destroyed than anyone else.
0:44.4	That's been my plan for some time.
0:47.0	I am Don Gentile,
0:48.4	and I am speaking to a war correspondent.
0:50.9	Ira Wolfert at Debden right now.
0:53.5	That is what it's happening.
0:56.4	Sorry, we've been getting into character rather on this series. And I've been enjoying it very
1:01.1	much. It's been true. Well, yes, you've been, Jim's been getting maximum jollies out of this
1:05.3	series. Well, I don't, don't deny that you haven't enjoyed it too. I've been trying to adopt an ironic posture and sit back from some of it and
1:14.2	failed.
1:15.4	Yeah, it failed.
1:16.2	Yeah, I could tell you you're fucked in too.
1:19.4	The charismatic lure of Don Blake's leaf.
1:22.8	Welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me, Al Murray and James Holland, of course,
1:27.3	the Second World War podcast for all your Second World War needs. Warbirds of Liberty, episode four, the fourth fighter group. And we're... Warbirds of Liberty. I mean, we're not D-Morp happy, because this is the last episode, but we are approaching that kind of mood. The war has turned in general, I think it's fair to say, by we're in the middle
1:45.4	in 1994. We've seen the US 8th Air Force deliver a strategic victory. Yes. Not the kind
1:52.7	that strategic bonding necessarily was conceived to do, but a strategic effect, nevertheless.
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