WW1: Airpower Over Gallipoli

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🗓️ 7 March 2022

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Located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the elongated embayment of the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles strait to the east is The Gallipoli peninsula. When we think of Gallipoli, people often look at the land-based components, but what about airpower? In this episode, James is joined by author and military historian Sterling Michael Pavelec to examine airpower and engineering in the emerging world of modern warfare. From dummy airplanes, the first torpedo attack, and the advancement of aerial photography, we take an in-depth look into the skies of the Gallipoli campaign. Airpower Over Gallipoli, 1915–1916 by Sterling Michael Pavelec.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone I'm your host James Rogers and welcome back to warfare. Now a couple of years ago I gave a lecture to the US Air Force
0:06.3	over in Montgomery, Alabama at US Air Force Base Maxwell on the history of precision warfare and while I was there I was introduced to their amazing group of air power historians
0:15.9	One of which is Professor Sterling Mike Pavlach the chair of the department of air power so I had to get him on the podcast Mike is a historian of the Gallipoli campaign.
0:25.0	So you might will ask, what has Gallipoli got to do with Air Power? Well, you're about to find out.
0:30.0	As Mike explains to us the extraordinary use of air power by the British, the
0:34.4	French, the Germans, and the Ottomans as they contested for the Dardanelles
0:38.4	straits and the Gallipoli Peninsula. Now I often pause here to ask for your support by popping us a quick five-star review on
0:45.3	Apple Podcast, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. But today I don't have to because so many of you have
0:50.8	done it. We're now listed in the UK as one of the top history
0:54.1	podcasts and that's all down to you thank you so much so now here is Mike
0:59.4	Pavlach on air power over Gallipoli. Enjoy.
1:03.4	Enjoy. Hi Mike welcome to warfare how you doing today
1:19.4	fantastic thank you very much good to hear where are you talking to us from in the world?
1:24.0	Well, so it's January 19th today.
1:26.0	It's 75 degrees in Maxwell Air Force Base Alabama.
1:29.0	We don't have to worry about the winter too much here in Dixie.
1:32.0	We have other problems, but the winter weather sort of leaves
1:34.8	us alone so it's a nice sunny balmy day in Alabama.
1:38.0	It is literally raining ice here today not snow it's not beautiful in Europe. It is ice showering down on
1:46.0	your face as you're walking. So I'm incredibly envious of your 75 degrees.
1:50.9	Yeah, we'll get a couple of very very cold nights and by cold I mean minus 2 Celsius 25 degrees or so
1:57.6	But it's not enough to kill the bugs and that's the thing that we have to worry about in the summer time
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