Weapons of WWII with Stephen Ambrose: Bombers and Fighters
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Stephen Ambrose was one of America’s leading biographers and historians. Although he passed away in 2002, his epic storytelling can now be heard here on Our American Stories, thanks to the efforts of those who manage his estate. Today, Stephen examines Allied aerial might—and how we figured out how to take the fight to Germany effectively over the skies of Europe.
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| 0:53.6 | Stephen Ambrose was one of America's leading biographers and historians. |
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| 1:09.0 | Our next story is about the fundamental importance of air superiority in World War II. |
| 1:14.7 | Here's Stephen Ambrose. |
| 1:16.4 | The bombers in the Second World War were very much bigger than anything that the first World War had seen. |
| 1:24.4 | Going up to the really big ones like the B-17, the B-17, the most famous of all, a four-engine bomber called the Flying Fortress. |
| 1:32.3 | They all had in common these things, they carried a lot of armament so that they could self-defend. |
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