World War Two
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Season 07
WW II year 1945Week 297 - - WW2 - May 04, 1945
Episode 18 - 5-04-2024
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Week 296 - - WW2 - April 27, 1945
Episode 17 - 4-27-2024
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Week 295 - - WW2 - April 20, 1945
Episode 16 - 4-20-2024
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Week 294 - Soviets Take Vienna and Königsberg - WW2 - April 13, 1945
Episode 15 - 4-13-2024
The prizes of Vienna and Königsberg fall to the Soviets as they continue what seems an inexorable advance. In the West the Allies advance to the Elbe River, but there they are stopped by command. The big news in their national papers this week is the death of American President Franklin Roosevelt, which provokes rejoicing in Hitler's bunker. The Allied fighting dash for Rangoon continues in Burma, as does the American advance on Okinawa, although Japanese resistance is stiffening and they are beginning counterattacks.
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Week 293 - The Battle of Okinawa Begins - WW2 - April 06, 1945
Episode 14 - 4-06-2024
It's the next step toward invading Japan's Home Islands- invading Okinawa, and it begins April 1st. Advances are easy by land, but at sea the kamikaze menace is in full swing. In Burma, plans are made to liberate Rangoon; in the west hundreds of thousands of Germans are surrounded in the Ruhr; and in the east, the Soviets begin assaults on Königsberg and Vienna.
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Week 292 - Allies Charge Forward from the Rhine! - WW2 - March 30, 1945
Episode 13 - 3-30-2024
All along the Western Front the Allies break out in force, invading German territory and receiving German surrenders by the thousands. In the east, the Soviets take Danzig and Gdynia, and rout the Germans in Hungary. There's a new Japanese offensive in China, though the fight on Iwo Jima ends with a Japanese defeat.
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Week 291 - Chiang versus Mountbatten - WW2 - March 23, 1945
Episode 12 - 3-23-2024
Chiang Kai-Shek is demanding his Chinese troops back from Burma, but this doesn't fit well with Mountbatten's plans for the region. In Burma, Bill Slim's forces liberate Mandalay this week and make plans to head south for Rangoon. There's also friction elsewhere in Allied command- between the Soviets and the Western Allies- over Italy. In the field in Europe, the Soviets advance all along the eastern front, and in the west, the Allies secure another Rhine crossing, and they also launch a double operation to send even more men across the river in force.
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Week 290 - Smiling Albert Takes Command - WW2 - March 16, 1945
Episode 11 - 3-16-2024
After the Allies took a Rhine Bridge last week, Adolf Hitler has again shuffled his commanders, moving Kesselring to the west. Meanwhile, the German offensive in Hungary comes to its end- and it does not end well for the Germans. The Japanese are nearly defeated Iwo Jima, are feeling a bit of desperation in Burma, but are far, far from defeated on Luzon.
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Week 289 - German Blunder Hands Allies a Rhine Crossing - WW2 - March 09, 1945
Episode 10 - 3-09-2024
The Allies manage to take an intact bridge over the mighty Rhine at Remagen, a major piece of luck; the Germans launch a new offensive in Hungary, and the Allies end one in Italy. Over in Burma, Meiktila falls, sabotaging the entire Japanese supply system for the country, and on Iwo Jima the fight continues, bloodier than ever for both sides.
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Week 288 - Allied Deception Surrounds Japanese in Burma - WW2 - March 02, 1945
Episode 9 - 3-02-2024
Bill Slim's master plan is near fruition and the Japanese are surrounded at Meiktila in Burma. The Allies have also nearly cleared Manila on Luzon, but the fighting on Iwo Jima is just growing in intensity. In Europe, the Soviets are still on the move in Poland, though attacking now to the north, but in Hungary it's the Germans who are making plans for a new offensive. The big news on the Western Front is the Allies reaching the Rhine, though how they'll cross that mighty river is anyone's guess.
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Week 287 - Iwo Jima! - WW2 - February 24, 1945
Episode 8 - 2-24-2024
This week the Battle of Iwo Jima begins and American forces raise the Stars and Stripes on Mount Suribachi. Elsewhere, the Allies fight the stiff Japanese defences in Manila. The Red Army continues fighting through East Prussia and Pomerania as Stalin plans the next stage of the advance on the Reich. There are Allied advances in Western Europe and Italy too.
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Week 286 - German Counterattack in Pomerania - WW2 - February 17, 1945
Episode 7 - 2-17-2024
The Germans finally launch a counterattack into the Soviet flanks, but it does not go as well as was as hoped: The Siege of Budapest comes to an end, also not well for the Germans. The Soviets have now also surrounded Breslau. In Burma, the Allies cross the Irrawaddy River, in the Philippines the fight for Manila continues, and in the Pacific preparations are underway for an American invasion of Iwo Jima Island.
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Week 285 - The Battle of Manila Begins - WW2 - February 10, 1945
Episode 6 - 2-11-2024
The American advance on Luzon has reached the Philippine capital, and it looks like they have a real fight on their hands with the Japanese there. There are supposed to be two new Allied operations starting in Western Europe, but one is delayed by flooding. The Allies do manage to eliminate the Colmar Pocket in the west, though. On the Eastern Front, there are new Soviet attacks in Pomerania and East Prussia, as well as out of the Steinau Bridgehead to the south, and in Budapest, it looks like the Soviet siege might soon end in victory.
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Week 284 - Is the Red Army too Fast for It's Own Good - WW2 - February 3, 1945
Episode 5 - 2-03-2024
Soviet forces have reached the old German border in force, however, logistical issues and a strong enemy presence possibly threatening their flanks means that a drive on Berlin may not be doable just now. Heinrich Himmler is in charge of the new Army Group to defend the Reich, and he has a host of problems. On the Western Front, the Allies finally eliminated the Colmar Pocket, and in the Philippines, the American advance reaches Manila, and the battle for the city is about to begin.
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Week 283 - Himmler Takes Command - WW2 - January 27, 1945
Episode 4 - 1-27-2024
A new German Army Group has been formed, tasked with protecting the Reich from the east and commanded by none other than Heinrich Himmler, who has never held such a command. The Soviets are really on the move in the east and have even begun reaching the prewar German border. In the west the Allies have cleared the Roer Triangle and are also working hard to eliminate the Colmar Pocket. In the Far East the Americans are advancing on Luzon, and in Burma the Allies have success on the Arakan and the Shwebo Plain, and finally manage to re open the Burma Road with China.
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Week 282 - The Red Army Overruns Poland! - WW2 - January 20, 1945
Episode 3 - 1-20-2024
The huge new Soviet offensives charge ahead this week, taking Warsaw and Krakow; in the west the Battle of the Bulge is officially called over... though there is still fighting there. On Luzon, the Americans push out of their beachhead, though there is heavy fighting to secure their flank.
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Week 281 - Soviet and American Massive Attacks - WW2 - January 13, 1945
Episode 2 - 1-13-2024
In the East, the Soviets launch a massive series of new offensives. In the West, Monty holds an ill-judged press conference about the Battle of the Bulge. Operation Nordwind, the German offensive in Alsace, continues. In Hungary, there’s house to house fighting as the Red Army besieges Budapest. In Asia, the Allies wrestle with the Kamikazes, begin their landings on Luzon, and advance in Burma.
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Week 280 - 1945 Begins! - January 6, 1945
Episode 1 - 1-06-2024
The Germans launch a new offensive, Operation Nordwind, in Alsace, even as their offensive in the Ardennes is stalled. The Allies in the west don't just have to fight these, they are also having serious issues amongst themselves in High Command that threaten their unity. The siege of Budapest is in full swing and is a hard, fought, bloody battle, and the Soviets and the Americans have big plans for new offensives soon to kick off in Eastern Europe and the Philippines (respectively).
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Season 06
WW II year 1944Week 279 - Budapest Under Siege - WW2 - December 30, 1944
Episode 52 - 12-30-2023
In the west, the Allies break the siege of Bastogne, but the fight for the Ardennes continues. and British Commander Bernard Montgomery is maneuvering to take command of the Western Front ground forces. In Hungary Budapest is cut off by the Soviets and under siege, with hundreds of thousands of civilians still in the city. The fight in italy is winding down for the winter, but the fight in the Philippines continues. In fact, American landings on Luzon are planned to go off soon.
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Week 278 - The Siege of Bastogne Begins - WW2 - December 23, 1944
Episode 51 - 12-23-2023
The German Ardennes Offensive, called by the Allies the Battle of the Bulge, is in full swing in Luxembourg and Belgium this week, and the Germans have the key junction town of Bastogne under siege. On the Allied side there comes a large American surrender, plans for counterattacks, and tension growing between British and American Commands. The fight in both Italy and the Philippines continues, and in Hungary the Soviets have nearly surrounded Budapest.
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Week 277 - The Battle of the Bulge Begins - WW2 - December 16, 1944
Episode 50 - 12-16-2023
Adolf Hitler's Ardennes counteroffensive finally goes off this week, and it does indeed catch the Allies by surprise, and they suspend other offensive operations in the west. They are still attacking in Italy, and the Soviets are still advancing in Hungary, trying to cut off Budapest. In the Far East, there are Allied landings on Mindoro, and they are also on the march in Burma, hoping to pin down the enemy.
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Week 276 - Can the Americans Stop the Kamikazes? - WW2 - December 9, 1944
Episode 49 - 12-09-2023
This is a very busy week of the war. In the west, the Americans manage to reach the Roer River in force, but haven't taken any of its dams; in Italy, the Allies liberate Ravenna; the Soviet advance in Hungary continues, and the Soviets even set up a new Hungarian government; martial law is declared in Greece; the Japanese make a corridor to Indochina; the fighting on Leyte continues, and the kamikaze menace becomes ever more worrisome.
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Week 275 - Was Hurtgen Forest Worth It? - WW2 - December 2, 1944
Episode 48 - 12-02-2023
The bulk of the fight for Hürtgen Forest is now over, and today we look at the results. We also look at Soviet plans for their January offensive. In the field this week, the Red Army is still fighting in Hungary, the Allies are still trying to reach the Roer River in the west, and in the Pacific Theater the kamikaze menace is wreaking havoc with Allied scheduling.
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Week 274 - General Patton's Metz Obsession - WW2 - November 25, 1944
Episode 47 - 11-25-2023
Metz finally falls to Patton's 3rd Army, but boy, it's taken some time. To the south, the Allies also take Belfort and Strasbourg, and to the north Operation Queen continues trying to reach the Roer River. The Soviets complete their conquest of the islands in the Gulf of Riga and continue advancing in Hungary to the south, but it's the Axis Powers- the Japanese- who are advancing in China, taking Dushan and Nanning.
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Week 273 - How Himmler Learned to Love the Russians - WW2 - November 18, 1944
Episode 46 - 11-18-2023
Heinrich Himmler wants to build an Army of Soviet POWs, but that has some problems; Patrick Hurley becomes US Ambassador to China, but even before that he's in hot water with Chiang Kai-Shek; and in the field in the west, the Allies launch Operation Queen to try to cross the Roer River and reach the Rhine.
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Week 272 - The Futile Fight in Hurtgen Forest - WW2 - November 11, 1944
Episode 45 - 11-11-2023
The struggle for Hurtgen forest, one tiny piece at a time, continues. The Allies have, however, secured Walcheren Island, and also launch Operation Queen to try and reach and cross the Roer River, and further south even launch a new offensive aiming for Metz . Things are not going well for the Americans on Leyte, though, but they're even worse for the Chinese as both Guilin and Liuzhou fall to the Japanese. As for the Soviets, they are busy making big plans for a gigantic offensive to drive in to Germany when the new year comes.
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Week 271 - Stalin says, "Bring me Budapest!" - WW2 - November 4, 1944
Episode 44 - 11-04-2023
Josef Stalin wants Rodion Malinovsky to attack Budapest without delay, but this might cause problems for the Soviets. In the west, the Canadians fight to clear Antwerp port while Hitler makes plans for a December counteroffensive. The Slovak Uprising comes to an end, the Germans are withdrawing from Finland, and in China the Japanese have reached Guilin and Liuzhou.
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Week 270 - The Battle of Leyte Gulf - WW2 - October 28, 1944
Episode 43 - 10-28-2023
This is it - the big showdown between US and Japanese Navies, and the largest naval battle ever fought in terms of total tonnage. American landings on Leyte itself are still in progress, and the Soviets' Debrecen Operation comes to its end.
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Week 269 - SS Commando Coup in Hungary - WW2 - October 21, 1944
Episode 42 - 10-21-2023
The Germans engineer a coup in Hungary to keep the Hungarian army in the war, but the Allies have finally entered Germany in force, taking Aachen in the west. The Soviets liberate Belgrade in the east, and launch new attacks in Baltics, and at the other end of the world come American landings in the Philippines, and the recall of Vinegar Joe Stilwell from China.
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Week 268 - The Isolation of Army Group North - WW2 - October 14, 1944
Episode 41 - 10-14-2023
Churchill and Stalin meet at the Moscow Conference and talk about future 'spheres of influence' in the Balkans. They also make plans for the future of Poland. In the field the Soviet Red Army completes the isolation of Army Group North and also advances in Hungary and Yugoslavia. The Allies enter Aachen in the west and cross the Rubicon in italy. The Americans are still fighting the Japanese on Peleliu, and this week also make raids against Japanese airfields ahead of next week's invasion of the Philippines.
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Week 267 - The End of the Warsaw Uprising - WW2 - October 7, 1944
Episode 40 - 10-07-2023
The Warsaw Uprising comes to its conclusion, a tragic one for the Poles. In the field in Europe, there are Allied attacks toward Aachen, Bologna, and Debrecen, while in China the Japanese have begun a new phase of their Ichi Go Offensive.
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Week 266 - The End of Market Garden - WW2 - September 30, 1944
Episode 39 - 9-30-2023
This week, Operation Market Garden comes to its unsuccessful conclusion, but there's a lot more going on- the Soviets launch an offensive in the Estonian Archipelago, the Warsaw Uprising is on the ropes, the Allies advance in Italy, the Americans on Peleliu, and Tito and Stalin make plans to clear Yugoslavia of the enemy.
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Week 265 - Operation Market Garden Begins - WW2 - September 23, 1944
Episode 38 - 9-23-2023
Monty's Operation(s) Market Garden, to drop men deep in the German rear in the Netherlands and secure a series of bridges, begins this week, but has serious trouble. In Italy the Allies take Rimini and San Marino, but over in the south seas in Peleliu the Americans have serious problems with the Japanese resistance. Finland and the USSR sign an armistice, and in Estonia the Soviets take Tallinn, and there are Soviet plans being made to enter Yugoslavia.
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Week 264 - The Ballad of Chiang and Vinegar Joe - WW2 - September 16, 1944
Episode 37 - 9-16-2023
The Japanese attacks in Guangxi worry Joe Stilwell enough that he gets FDR to issue an ultimatum to Chiang Kai-Shek, in France the Allied invasion forces that hit the north and south coasts finally link up, the Warsaw Uprising continues, and the US Marines land on Peleliu and Angaur.
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Week 263 - Bulgaria at War with Everyone - September 9, 1944
Episode 36 - 9-09-2023
This week the USSR invades Bulgaria... who've also declared war on Germany, and who are still at war with the US and Britain, so Bulgaria is briefly technically at war with all four at once. Finland signs a ceasefire, the Germans are pulling out of Greece, the Warsaw and Slovak Uprisings continue, Belgium is mostly liberated, and across the world, the Japanese enter Guangxi, and there are American plans to liberate the Philippines.
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Week 262 - The War is Five Years Old - WW2 - September 2, 1944
Episode 35 - 9-02-2023
Five years of war and no real end in sight, though the Allies sure seem to have the upper hand at the moment. Romania is coming under the Soviet thumb and Red Army troops are at Bulgaria's borders, the Allies enter Belgium and also take ports in the south of France. A Slovak National Uprising begins against the Germans, and the Warsaw Uprising against them continues, but in China it is plans for defense being made against the advancing Japanese.
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Week 261 - The Liberation of Paris - WW2 - August 26, 1944
Episode 34 - 8-26-2023
Paris is liberated by the Allies, a symbolic act that causes the world to rejoice. Something far more important to the course of the war, though, happens this week in Romania. The Allies continue to advance in the south of France and begin a new offensive in Italy, though the Pacific War has quietened down once again.
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Week 260 - Hitler Has A Bad Day - WW2 August 19, 1944
Episode 33 - 8-19-2023
This week the Allies invade Southern France, and do so very successfully. They're also successful in the north, closing the Falaise gap and trapping huge numbers of Germans. In the East, however, the Germans manage to stop the Soviet drive on Riga with a counter attack, and in Warsaw they continue to brutally put down the Warsaw Uprising.
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Week 259 - Panzer Revenge in Normandy - WW2 - August 12, 1944
Episode 32 - 8-12-2023
The Germans launch a counter attack to sabotage the Allied positions in France. In the Baltics the Soviet advances grind to a halt, but the Soviets are busy making plans to invade Romania in the south. Meanwhile in the center the Warsaw Uprising continues. Across the world the siege of Hengyang comes to its end with a Japanese victory, but the Battle for Guam ends with a Japanese loss.
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Week 258 - The Warsaw Uprising Begins! - WW2 - August 5, 1944
Episode 31 - 8-05-2023
As the Red Army closes in on Warsaw, the Polish Home Army in the city rises up against the German forces. Up in the north the Red Army takes Kaunas. The Allies take Florence in Italy this week, well, half of it, and in France break out of Normandy and into Brittany. The Allies also finally take Myitkyina in Burma after many weeks of siege, and in the Marianas take Tinian and nearly finish taking Guam. And in Finland the President resigns, which could have serious implications for Finland remaining in the war.
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Week 257 - Bradley Unleashes His Cobra - WW2 - July 29, 1944
Episode 30 - 7-29-2023
Operation Cobra is the drop that finally opens the floodgates and the Allies make a breakthrough in Normandy; up in the Baltics the Soviets take Shaulyai, Dvinsk, and finally Narva, though their big prize this week is Lvov further south. This happens during the Poles' Lvov Uprising, which ends badly for the Poles. Things also go badly for the Japanese on Guam, though, as their assault this week devastates their own troops.
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Week 256 - Sayonara Tojo - WW2 - July 22, 1944
Episode 29 - 7-22-2023
This week, Adolf Hitler is blown up and Hideki Tojo steps down. In the Pacific, the Americans land on Guam and prepare for hard fighting. In France, the Americans take Saint-Lô and British and German armored forces clash around Caen. In the East, the Red Army enters Latvia, tears a gap in Army Group North, and reaches the gates of Lvov.
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Week 255 - Mass Suicide on Saipan - WW2 - July15, 1944
Episode 28 - 7-15-2023
Japanese troops and civilians commit mass suicide rather than surrender to the Americans in the Marianas; in Normandy, Caen has finally fallen to the Allies though the fight for St. Lo is not over; the Soviet offensives in the north take Vilnius and the fighting continues up in Finland, but the big eastern front news is the mighty new Soviet offensive in Western Ukraine.
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Week 254 - The Destruction of Army Group Centre - WW2 - July 8, 1944
Episode 27 - 7-08-2023
Operation Bagration continues, smashing the armies of German Army Group Center and taking ever more territory including the prize of Minsk; on Saipan the Americans have taken most of the island when the Japanese resort to a huge suicidal banzai charge to try and turn the tide; and in Normandy new attacks begin try to finally take Caen and St. Lo.
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Week 253 - Allies Liberate Cherbourg - WW2 - July 1, 1944
Episode 26 - 7-01-2023
Several weeks after the invasion of Normandy began, the Allies finally take a port city there, though the actual harbor has been destroyed. On Saipan the Americans have the advantage, in Finland, the Soviets do, but the big news is the Soviet destruction of huge chunks of German Army Group Center, demolishing entire Army Corps, and surrounding tens of thousands of the enemy.
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Week 252 - The Greatest Pincer Movement in Military History - WW2 - June 24, 1944
Episode 25 - 6-24-2023
The Red Army surges forward in Operation Bagration, a mighty new offensive to destroy German Army Group Centre. Fighting continues in Normandy, Italy, and Finland. The United States Navy tears the heart out of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Philippine Sea even as the Imperial Japanese Army has success in China. The British and Indian armies lift the siege of Kohima.
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Week 251 - Titanic Clash Looms in Pacific - WW2 - June 17, 1944
Episode 24 - 6-17-2023
Japanese and American navies are heading for a showdown in the Philippine Sea, even as American forces land on Saipan in the Marianas in force. The Japanese have Changsha under siege in China, the Allies advance in both Normandy and Italy, the Soviets advance in Finland, and the massive Soviet summer operation is coming together and will begin in a matter of days.
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Week 250 - The Invasion of Normandy Begins! - WW2 - June 10, 1944
Episode 23 - 6-10-2023
The Allies' gigantic, amphibious invasion of France begins and by the end of the week they've carved out a decent sized beachhead. Meanwhile in Italy the Allied advance takes Rome. The Soviets are launching new attacks of their own- now against the Finns, and the Japanese at Kohima... have just plain had enough.
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Week 249 - The Allies are Driving for Rome - WW2 - June 3, 1944
Episode 22 - 6-04-2023
The Allies head north in Italy after the fall of Monte Cassino last week; the Japanese head south in China in a new phase of their offensive; and the Soviets and the Western Allies make ever more concrete plans for their huge offensives, to go off very soon.
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Week 248 - Breakout from Anzio! - WW2 - May 27, 1944
Episode 21 - 5-27-2023
After four month, the Allies breakout from their bridgehead at Anzio and meet with the advancing troops heading north after the fall of Monte Cassino last week. The Japanese begin phase two of their big operation in China, and both the Soviets and the Western Allies continue making plans for their massive June offensives to squeeze the Axis from both sides of Europe.
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Week 247 - The Fall of Monte Cassino - WW2 - May 20, 1944
Episode 20 - 5-20-2023
In Italy, the Allies finally overcome Monte Cassino and break through the Gustav Line; in Burma Merrill's Marauders surprise the Japanese and take Myitkyina Airfield; in China, it's the Japanese who are playing offense, as Operation Ichi Go and the siege of Luoyang continue. That's the field action, but there's big planning behind the scenes for major June offensives going on by both the Western Allies and the Soviets.
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Week 246 - Victory at Sevastopol! - WW2 - May 13, 1944
Episode 19 - 5-13-2023
The Soviets push the Axis out of the Crimea this week once and for all. In Italy, the Allies launch a major offensive, and the French make a breakthrough there by week's end. In China, the Japanese are aiming at Luoyang, but in India at Kohima they're slowly being pushed back.
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Week 245 - Total Chaos on the Chinese Front! - WW2 - May6, 1944
Episode 18 - 5-06-2023
A command crisis in the Chinese Nationalist Army benefits the Japanese invaders, in Italy, Mark Clark spends his birthday planning new offensives, the Japanese are pushing for Imphal, and the Soviets for Sevastopol- another busy week of the war!
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Week 244 - Germany's Existential Crisis - WW2 - April 29, 1944
Episode 17 - 4-29-2023
The fighting at Kohima is up close, personal, and vicious, as it is at Imphal. The Allies consolidate their gains at Hollandia, the Japanese are advancing in Central China, and it seems like the Chinese Nationalist Army has lost the support of the civilian population. This might not surprise you when we take a closer look.
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Week 243 - The Biggest Offensive in Japanese History - WW2 - April 22, 1944
Episode 16 - 4-22-2023
Japan Launches Operation Ichigo in China, their largest offensive of the war... or ever, but over in India things are not going well for the Japanese at Imphal and Kohima. The Allies also launch attacks on the Japanese at Hollandia, while over in the Crimea, the German defenses at Sevastopol are cracking under Soviet pressure.
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Week 242 - 4,000 German Teens Trapped in Tarnopol - WW2 - April 15, 1944
Episode 15 - 4-15-2023
Thousands of German soldiers, mostly new teenage recruits, are obeying Hitler's 'Fortress Directive' and are surrounded in Tarnopol; it does not go well for them. German forces in Ukraine manage to all pull back across the Dniester, but they are under serious pressure in the Crimea. Meanwhile, in India, the Japanese siege of Kohima continues, and in China they are poised to launch a gigantic offensive.
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Week 241 - New Offensive in the Crimea - WW2 - April 8, 1944
Episode 14 - 4-08-2023
The Soviets are finally going to try and push the Axis out of Sevastopol and the Crimea. They also continue to drive the Axis back in Transnistria. Over in Burma and Northeastern India, the Japanese have the Allies under siege at not one, but two towns, and are also attacking Imphal from several points, but the Japanese have way bigger future plans up their sleeves in China.
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Week 240 - Goodbye Manstein... Hello Model - WW" - April 1, 1944
Episode 13 - 4-01-2023
As the Allies prepare to close in on Germany from all fronts, a shake up of the German military leadership can only achieve so much...
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Week 239 - Germany Invades Hungary - WW2 - March 25, 1944
Episode 12 - 3-25-2023
Germany occupies Hungary this week to prevent any possible Hungarian defection from the war, the Soviets continue pushing back the Axis in Ukraine, pressing them ever more toward Romania, the Japanese advance on Imphal and Kohima continues, but Allied attacks in Italy and Japanese ones on Bougainville come to their ends.
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Week 238 - The Japanese Invade India! - WW2 - March 18, 1944
Episode 11 - 3-18-2023
Operation U-Go, Renya Mutaguchi's invasion of India, is in full swing this week, as his men aim at Imphal and Kohima; three Soviets Fronts batter their way through the Axis positions all over Ukraine; and there is a huge Allied bombing campaign at Cassino in Italy, which mistakenly kills a lot of Allied soldiers. That's one busy week.
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Week 237 - Zhukov Hits the Ground Running - WW2 - Marc 11, 1944
Episode 10 - 3-11-2023
The Soviets launch not one, not two, but three offensives in Ukraine this week, designed to destroy the entire southern wing of the German forces. The Japanese counterattack against the Americans on Bougainville finally begins after months of preparations, but there are more Japanese attacks elsewhere that get going: the operation to invade India.
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Week 236 - MacArthur and Nimitz Go Head-to-Head - WW" - March 4, 1944
Episode 9 - 3-04-2023
The American attacks against the Admiralty Islands are successful, but this causes real tensions between Commanders Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz. Much of this week is taken up by planning and meetings on both sides, actually- Adolf Hitler plans the occupation of Hungary, Josef Stalin plans new offensives in Ukraine, and the Allies plan to reconfigure their whole front in Italy. It's all the prelude to an explosion of action.
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Week 235 - Tojo Takes Control - WW2 - February 25, 1944
Episode 8 - 2-25-2023
Now that the Americans have seized the Marshall Islands, they can bypass the Japanese base at Truk. This impels Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to shake up both army and navy command, and he even takes personal control over the Japanese Army. On the Anzio Front, Lucian Truscott replaces John Lucas as Allied Commander. In the field, the Allies win a big victory in Burma, and in Ukraine, the Soviets are still on the move.
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Week 234 - The Destruction of Mote Cassino - WW2 - February 18, 1944
Episode 7 - 2-18-2023
The Allies bomb the monastery atop Monte Cassino in Italy, but just to the Northwest it's the Germans attacking them at Anzio this week. In the Soviet Union, the Axis break out of the Korsun Pocket, but at great cost, and in the Pacific comes a major Allied raid on the Japanese base at Truk and landings on Eniwetok Atoll.
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Week 233 - German Desperation in Korsun Pocket - February 11, 1944
Episode 6 - 2-11-2023
It is crisis mode in the Korsun Pocket this week for the Axis troops surrounded, but they are also losing ground all over the Eastern Front this week, including the big prize of Nikopol. In Italy, it is a different story as the Germans play offense at Anzio, though with only small gains.
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Week 232 - Leningrad: NO STEP BACK! - WW2 - February 4, 1944
Episode 5 - 2-04-2023
The Allies begin a new operation in the Pacific this week: assaulting the Marshall Islands. They also make big attacks from their beachhead in Italy at Anzio, but these are called off after only a few days in the face of heavy enemy resistance. However, in the USSR there's several successes against the Axis, as they are pushed back both in the far north and the far south of the front, and still surrounded near Korsun.
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Week 231 - Anzio Begins - Allies Already Pinned Down - WW2 - January 28, 1944
Episode 4 - 1-28-2023
Some big news is the Allies amphibious offensive to hit the Germans behind their lines at Anzio in Italy, some other big news is that after nearly two and a half years, the Soviets have broken the siege of Leningrad and their twin northern offensives keep pushing back the enemy. Yet more big news is that the Soviets have managed to surround and cut off over 50,000 Axis troops near Korsun. This is one big week of action!
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Week 230 - Monte Cassino, the Battle Begins - WW2 - January 21, 1944
Episode 3 - 1-21-2023
The Allies have reached the linchpin of the German defenses in Italy, but a first attack proves disastrous. It does, though, divert troops from where they soon plan to make landings behind enemy lines. Meanwhile in the USSR, the huge Soviet offensive in the north makes great gains against the stunned Axis forces.
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Week 229 - Time to Liberate Leningrad! - January 14, 1944
Episode 2 - 1-14-2023
Three Soviet Fronts launch major offensives to try and finally free Leningrad, under siege for nearly two and a half years now. The Soviets are, in fact, making attacks along most of the Eastern Front. In the South Pacific, the Allies step up their aerial assault to wreck Rabaul's air power, thus neutralizing it as a base.
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Week 228 - "Russians 27 Miles from Poland" - WW2 - January 7, 1944
Episode 1 - 1-07-2023
That's what the headlines say as the Red Army continues its advance in Ukraine. There are also plans afoot for a northern offensive to end the siege of Leningrad. There are also plans afoot for an Allied amphibious attack in Italy at Anzio. Both of these are set to go off within a couple weeks, so January promises to be full of active conflict.
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Season 05
WW II Year 1943Week 227 - Canadians Take Little Stalingrad - WW2 - December 31, 1943
Episode 56 - 12-31-2022
1943 reaches its end with no end in sight for the war. In Italy, the Canadians take Ortona after bloody close fighting, the US Marines advance on New Britain, and a new Soviet offensive makes huge gains in the USSR. This isn't enough for the Allies, though, who have a big shake up in their European Command to help prepare for future attacks.
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Week 226 - Stalin's Christmas Surprise - Major Offensive to Come - WW2 - December 24, 1943
Episode 55 - 12-24-2022
Twas the night before Christmas and the war was grinding on. The Moro River Campaign continues in Italy with Canadian infantry pushing past the Gully and into 'Little Stalingrad'. Generally, the Allied advance to Rome is turning into a stalemate though, but Winston Churchill still believes an amphibious landing is the way to break this. Joseph Stalin also has some pretty big plans to bring the USSR back to its pre-Barbarossa borders. In the Pacific, there is attrition over Rabaul and stalemate on Bougainville.
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Week 225 - A Super Bomber to Break Japan - WW2 - December 17, 1943
Episode 54 - 12-17-2022
This war has now lasted as long as the Great War did, but there's no signs of it slowing. The Soviets have three offensives going on on the Eastern Front, in Italy the Allies are attacking at San Pietro and over the Moro River, in the Pacific there are Allied landings on New Britain, but in Pacific Command, the big talk is all about a new super bomber.
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Week 224 - An Amphibious Landing to Take Rome? - WW2 - December 10, 1943
Episode 53 - 12-10-2022
There are plans afoot to hit the enemy from behind in Italy. Allied leaders are meeting again in Cairo to go over other plans, notably what to do about China and Burma. There is active fighting on two fronts in Italy too, though this week it doesn't go particularly well for the Allies. Attacks in the USSR are unsuccessful for the Soviets, but do well for the Germans, and there are Allied attacks by air in the Marshall Islands and over France.
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Week 223 - Operation Overlord Confirmed at Teheran - WW2 - December 3, 1943
Episode 52 - 12-03-2022
The Teheran Conference is in full swing and the Allied leadership and plan for a cross channel invasion of Europe is agreed upon by Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt. There are new Allied attacks across Italy, but further at Bari a German air raid releases deadly poison gas.
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Week 222 - The Costliest Day in US Marine History - WW" - November 26, 1943
Episode 51 - 11-26-2022
The Americans attack the Gilbert Islands this week, and though they successfully take Tarawa and Makin Atolls, it is VERY costly in lives, and show that the Japanese are not going to be defeated easily. They also have a naval battle in the Solomons. Fighting continues in the Soviet Union and Italy, and an Allied conference takes place in Cairo, a prelude for a major one in Teheran next week.
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Week 221 - A Conspiracy to Kill America's President? - WW2 - November 19, 1943
Episode 50 - 11-19-2022
A torpedo attack against the President; a Marine invasion in the central Pacific that turns very bloody in a hurry; German counterattacks in the Soviet Union; a bombing raid in Italy against a secret weapons site- all of that this week.
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Week 220 - Kiev Liberated! Celebrations in Moscow! - WW2 - November 12, 1943
Episode 49 - 11-12-2022
The Red Army has driven the Axis forces out of Kiev, third largest city in the USSR. The Allies are also advancing, albeit slowly and at great cost, in Italy, but in the South Pacific, they launch a massive air strike against Rabaul... and what is the result? Watch and find out.
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Week 219 - Allies Launch New Phase in Pacific War - WW2 - November 5, 1943
Episode 48 - 11-05-2022
The Allies hit the beaches of Bougainville, largest and last of the Solomon Islands. They create and expand a beachhead there and also win battles there at sea and in the skies. In the USSSR, the Soviets are closing in on Kiev and in the south have isolated the Crimea, but in spite of that, Adolf Hitler issues a new directive that Germany's focus for the future should be in the west and the threat of an Allied invasion there.
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Week 218 - Fresh German Armour in the USSR! - WW2 - October 29, 1943
Episode 47 - 10-29-2022
Erich von Manstein finally gets the reserve armor he's been begging Hitler for, so he can carry out his counteroffensive in Ukraine. The Soviets are still on the move themselves though. In Italy, though, the Allies are moving at a crawl since the Germans have mined and booby trapped everything. There's also new action in the Solomons and a celebration in Japan.
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Week 217 - Stalin Agrees to the United Nations - WW2 - October 22, 1943
Episode 46 - 10-22-2022
A Conference in Moscow lays out some postwar plans of the Allies, but the war has to be won first. The Allies fight their way across both the Dnieper and Volturno Rivers, but the going looks like it's going to be tougher after the crossings. Meanwhile, in the South Seas the Japanese change plans in the face of Allied advances over there.
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Week 216 - Zaporizhzhia! - WW2 - October 15, 1943
Episode 45 - 10-15-2022
The Allies begin an aerial bombing campaign against the Japanese base at Rabaul. It has big success, though Allied bombing in Europe this week achieves big failure. The Allied advance in Italy is slowing down to a crawl, but in the USSR the advance across the Dnieper continues, specifically at the Zaporozhe bridgehead.
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Week 215 - Could the Soviets Cut Off Crimea? - WW2 - October 8, 1943
Episode 44 - 10-08-2022
The Germans booby-trapped Naples when they evacuated last week and local civilians now pay the price. In the Mediterranean, Kos falls to the Germans while Corsica is liberated by the French. There is action all along the Dnieper in the USSR, and the Australians advance in New Guinea, and the Japanese evacuate Vella Lavella in the Solomons.
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Week 214 - Smolensk and Naples Liberated! Both in Ruins - WW2 - October 1, 1943
Episode 43 - 10-01-2022
Major prizes are taken by the Allies this week on two fronts- Naples in Italy and Smolensk in the USSR, but they are advancing all over the Eastern Front, across the Italian peninsula, and in the South Seas, but the enemy is leaving a trail of destruction as he pulls back.
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Week 213 - Red Army Reaches the Dnieper - WW2 - September 24, 1943
Episode 42 - 9-24-2022
Benito Mussolini proclaims a new fascist republic in Italy, but this time it is a full puppet state to Germany. There is scattered fighting around Italy and the Dodecanese- including a massacre of Italian POWs, but the big Allied advances this week are the Australians in New Guinea and the Soviets retaking their own territory. They take ground, in fact, from near Smolensk all the way south to the Sea of Azov.
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Week 212 - Jailbreak! Mussolini on the Loose Again! - WW2 - September 17, 1943
Episode 41 - 9-17-2022
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Week 211 - The Allies' Latest Victory - WW2 - September 1943
Episode 40 - 9-10-2022
Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the secret armistice signed last week, and Italy is now officially out of the war. The Italian Fleet sails for Malta and Allied captivity. The Allies have landed in force in Southern Italy and they do face some heavy opposition from German forces- who have no intention of giving up Italy. In the USSR, though, the Soviets continue liberating territory all over Ukraine as they force the Germans back to the Dnieper River.
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Week 210 - The War is Four Years Old this Week - WW2 - September 3, 1943
Episode 39 - 9-03-2022
Four years of war and no real end in sight, but as the week ends the Allies land their first troops on Italy, actively committing themselves to a front in Western Europe. In the USSR the Soviets are taking heavy casualties but still pushing back the enemy with big partisan help and in Pacific plans are made for offensive against yet more Japanese held islands.
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Week 209 - Kharkov Changes Hands for the Fourth Time - WW2 - August 27, 1943
Episode 38 - 8-27-2022
As the war grows ever more ferocious, some people are unfortunate enough to see the front line arrive to their villages, towns, and cities multiple times.
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Week 208 - Sicily Liberated; Italy in the Firing Line - WW2 - August 20, 1943
Episode 37 - 8-20-2022
The British and Americans race for Messina to complete the conquest of Sicily- who will reach it first? On New Guinea, the Allies destroy a substantial Japanese air force; there are several major Allied air raids over Europe, the fighting in the USSR around Kharkov is brutal and costly for both sides, and a secret Allied leadership conference in Quebec begins to determine the course of the war. Busy week.
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Week 207 - Manstein Goes Great War Style - WW2 - August 13, 1943
Episode 36 - 8-13-2022
From Sicily to Spas-Demensk, the Axis continue conceding ground to the Allies this week. But the fighting is still tough. The Wehrmacht has halted the Red Army offensive in the Kuban, and the British and American Armies have neither the strength nor the willpower to press the advantage against Axis troops retreating to the Italian mainland.
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Week 206 - Allied Tidal Wave in Romania - WW2 - August 6, 1943
Episode 35 - 8-06-2022
The Allies bomb the Romanian oil fields, a major Axis source of oil, but it does not go well for the attackers. They do advance in both Sicily and the Solomon Islands- where a future President has one heck of an adventure, and in the USSR a huge Soviet counter offensive begins, taking Belgorod after just a few days and threatening Kharkov.
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Week 205 - Mussolini Falls from Power - WW2 - July 30, 1943
Episode 34 - 7-30-2022
The Allied advance on Sicily continues, though they're really gearing up for operations next week. The Soviet advances around in the USSR and in New Georgia also continue, with the enemy deciding to withdraw in both; Allied firebombing kills tens of thousands of German civilians, but the big news is still the fall of Benito Mussolini from power in Italy.
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Week 204 - After a Victory at Kursk, The Soviets Attack Everywhere - WW2 - July 23, 1943
Episode 33 - 7-23-2022
The Allied invasion of Italy powers on and puts the future of a key axis power at play. In the USSR, the Soviets have learnt to deal with German offensives, as the Wehrmacht struggles to make a dent.
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Week 203 - Who Let the Dogs Out?! - The Invasion of Sicily - WW2 - July 16, 1943
Episode 32 - 7-16-2022
The Allies have begun their fight to take back Western Europe with Operation Husky. That's not the only news though. They are also trying to extend their foothold in the Solomons, and Germany and the USSR continue smashing into one another at Kursk.
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Week 202 B - Prokhorovka: An Avalanche of Armor - WW2 - July 13, 1943
Episode 31 - 7-13-2022
As dawn broke on 12th July 1943, the spearheads of the German II SS Panzer Corps and the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army were shuffling into their positions. The battle of Zitadelle was entering a pivotal moment. Would the elite of the German Panzers finally achieve a breakthrough into open country? Or would the might of the Soviet Tank Army break them in a pre-emptive attack? The battle and fate of Operation Zitadelle was to be decided in front of a small village called Prokhorovka.
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Week 202 - Kursk, When Titans Clash - July 9, 1943
Episode 30 - 7-10-2022
Adolf Hitler launches his huge summer offensive in the USSR, Operation Citadel, known as the Battle of Kursk. Men in the millions clash. The Allies New Georgia campaign continues in the Solomons, both on land and with fighting at sea this week, and the preliminary actions begin for the Allied invasion of Sicily, scheduled to go off tomorrow
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Week 201 - Tougher than Guadalcanal: New Georgia - July 2, 1943
Episode 29 - 7-02-2022
The Allies begin the next phase of their Solomon Islands offensives, the invasion of New Georgia, even as the regional fighting continues on New Guinea. Adolf Hitler schedules his summer Kursk offensive for July 5th, and the Allied invasion of Sicily is set for July 10th.
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Week 200 - Two Hundred Weeks of War - WW2 - June 25, 1943
Episode 28 - 6-25-2022
The Allies make some preliminary moves ahead of their next big operation in the Solomon Island as well as a few before their impending invasion of Sicily. Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union, Soviet citizens are laying over a million mines in anticipation of the impending German attack at Kursk.
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Week 199 - Kursk: Soviets Dig-In for Blitzkrieg - WW2 - June 18, 1943
Episode 27 - 6-18-2022
The Soviets have put civilians to work by the hundreds of thousands, building line after line of defenses in the Kursk Salient, where they are sure the Germans are soon to attack. Meanwhile the Allies are making moves in preparations for two big upcoming offensives of their own- in Sicily and the Central Solomon Islands.
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Week 198 - Eisenhower Lays Out His Plans for Sicily - WW2 - June 11, 1943
Episode 26 - 6-11-2022
The Allies bomb Mediterranean islands in preparation for their invasion of Sicily next month; they also prepare a lot of deceptions to mislead the enemy as to where they will attack. The German plans for the summer offensive against the Kursk Salient are ever more concrete, and in the field this week, the Chinese stop the Japanese offensive cold.
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Week 197 - Banzai Charges in Alaska - WW2 - June 4, 1943
Episode 25 - 6-04-2022
The Chinese defeat the Japanese at Shipai Fortress and the Americans maul the Japanese in the Aleutians. The Japanese are also worried about the possibility of the USSR joining the war against them. Meanwhile the Allies still plan to invade Sicily, but have no idea what they'll do after that.
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Week 196 - Black May, Nazi Subs Defeated - WW2 - May 28, 1943
Episode 24 - 5-28-2022
German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the U-Boats to leave the Atlantic this week; the losses lately have just been too great for their patrols to continue there. There is active fighting in China, the Aleutians, and the Kuban, and there are special weapons tests in the skies over Germany.
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Week 195 - Wrapping up the North African Campaign - WW2 - May 21, 1943
Episode 23 - 5-21-2022
The Allies have won the battle for Africa, but now they have nearly 250,000 POWs to care for, and do not have the facilities to do so. The Trident Conference continues in Washington to try and decide the direction of the Allied war effort, but they launch the Dambuster Raids this week in Germany to try and cripple German water power - and thus, industry - with a new type of bomb.
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Week 194 - The End of the War in Africa - WW2 - May 14, 1943
Episode 22 - 5-14-2022
With the end of the Tunisian Campaign, the Allies have won the war for the African Continent. What next? They meet at the Trident Conference in Washington DC to try and figure that out. Meanwhile, the fight in the field continues - in Burma, the Aleutians, China, and the Kuban.
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Week 193 - Kilroy was Here! The Fall of Tunis - WW2 - May 7, 1943
Episode 21 - 5-07-2022
Tunis falls to the Allies, but the Axis are still fighting back from their little corner of Tunisia. There is more of the seemingly endless fighting in the Kuban in the Caucasus, and the Chinese Theater comes to life with a new Japanese offensive.
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Week 192 - The Race for Tunisia Turns into a Crawl - WW2 - April 30, 1943
Episode 20 - 4-30-2022
The Allies launch a deception operation to hide their intent of soon attacking Sicily, but first, they'll actually have to secure Tunisia, and it is slow going. A German offensive in the Caucasus grinds to a halt, and German U-Boats are suddenly finding themselves unable to destroy Allied shipping in the Atlantic.
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Week 191 - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Got Him - Yamamoto - WW2 - April 23, 1943
Episode 19 - 4-23-2022
The mastermind of Pearl Harbor meets his fate this week in the Solomons, as do a great many Italian airmen and sailors in the Mediterranean in the Palm Sunday Massacre trying to supply the desperate Axis forces in Tunisia.
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Week 190 - Kursk - The Next Great Battle? - WW2 - April 16, 1943
Episode 18 - 4-16-2022
The Allies have one chance left to catch the Axis forces in Tunisia before they can reach the Tunis defences, in the USSR both the Axis and Soviets are making plans for a fight near Kursk, and in the skies, in the South Pacific a Japanese aerial offensive ends and Yamamoto himself flies off to congratulate his pilots.
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Week 189 - Mussolini is Tired of War - WW2 - April 9th, 1943
Episode 17 - 4-09-2022
Adolf Hitler meets with Benito Mussolini to hopefully restore his flagging morale and convince him that the Axis can hold out in North Africa, but the situation there grows more precarious and this week there the Allies advancing from the west and the east link up for the first time. The Axis are also holding out in the Caucasus, as new Soviet attacks to take Krymskaya begin.
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Week 188 - Patton Has a Plan, and it's Bad - WW2 - April 2, 1943
Episode 16 - 4-02-2022
American attacks in Tunisia meet with local disaster, but in general the Axis forces are withdrawing there. The Allies learn about the German rocketry plans this week, and both sides are making plans for action in the Pacific.
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Week 187B - The End of Hydra? - WW2 - April 1, 1943
Episode 15 - 4-01-2022
The phantom submarine that has been savaging both Japanese and Allied shipping in the South Pacific is tracked to Hydra Island, Baron von Strucker's base. The fighting for it is a tough hand-to-hand combat, as Japanese and American soldiers ally with each other in the face of a common enemy.
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Week 187 - American Army Finally Does Something Right - WW2 - March 26, 1943
Episode 14 - 3-26-2022
The British are attacking the Mareth Line in North Africa while the Americans hit the Axis flank, but the Allies are withdrawing in Burma. It's the Germans who are pulling back in the USSR, though, and there is another attempt from within German Command to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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Week 186 - Kharkov Falls Once Again - WW2 - March 19, 1943
Episode 13 - 3-19-2022
The twin prizes of Kharkov and Belgorod fall to Erich von Manstein's German forces this week, but this is a week of preparations- the Americans and New Zealanders are on the move in North Africa so everyone can attack next week, and in the USSR Hitler plans for the Kursk salient to be eliminated. He might not survive to see that happen, since there is an attempt on his life- a failed one- this week, and there may well be more to come.
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Week 185 - Rommel Leaves Africa - March 12, 1943
Episode 12 - 3-12-2022
Erwin Rommel loses his command and leaves Tunisia, while change in American command there puts George Patton in charge. On the ground the Axis lose the Battle of Medenine, but in the Soviet Union, Axis forces are on the move and heading for Kharkov.
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Week 184 - Another Naval Disaster for Japan - WW2 - March 5, 1943
Episode 11 - 3-05-2022
The Japanese again fail to reinforce New Guinea, losing many transport ships, and their forces there are ever more isolated. In Tunisia the Axis lose a bunch of new Tiger tanks, but in the Soviet Union it is the Axis forces that are on the offensive as Erich von Manstein's offensive continues.
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Week 183 - The Blitzkrieg is Back - WW2 - February 26, 1943
Episode 10 - 2-26-2022
Erich von Manstein's Axis counterattack on the Eastern Front begins this week and right away smashes through the Red Army lines, threatening all the recent Soviet gains. The Allies- the Americans- also suffer a big defeat in Tunisia at the Kasserine Pass, though in the Pacific it is the Americans who occupy the Russell Islands.
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Week 182 - Can the Red Army Capture Hitler? - WW2 - February 19, 1943
Episode 9 - 2-19-2022
The Red Army liberates both Rostov and Kharkov this week, but their advancing spearheads are close to an even bigger prize, Adolf Hitler himself. It is the Axis, however, who are both advancing and consolidating in Tunisia, and gearing up for new offensive actions next week.
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Week 181 - Victory at Guadalcanal - WW2 - February 12, 1943
Episode 8 - 2-05-2022
Operation KE, the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal, concludes this week and the campaign has been a big loss for the Japanese. The Axis forces are also withdrawing- and the Red Army advancing- in the Donbas and the Caucasus, closing in on both Kharkov and Rostov. And a front that's been quiet for a while, the Burma front, begins heating up again with an Allied advance out of India.
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Week 180 - Guadalcanal, A New Offensive - WW2 - February 5, 1943
Episode 7 - 2-05-2022
This week sees the 10th anniversary of Hitler's ascension to power in Germany, but while there may be celebrations and speeches in Germany, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to its end with the surrender of the German 6th Army. The Soviets are on the move all over, launching yet more winter offensives. It is the Axis who are attacking in Tunisia, and in the Solomon Islands... well, the Allies aren't sure what the Japanese are up to.
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Week 179B - Stalingrad: Endgame - WW2 - January 31, 1943
Episode 6 - 1-30-2022
The Allies are unable to win in Tunisia, though further east Bernard Montgomery has achieved his goal of driving the enemy out of Libya. To the west, the Casablanca Conference comes to its end and the Allies write a list of their war priorities. The Soviets, however, are on the move everywhere, closing in on Stalingrad, and launching new operations up and down the eastern front, to the dismay and detriment of the Axis forces.
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Week 179 - Time to Fire Rommel? - WW2 - January 29, 1943
Episode 5 - 1-29-2022
The Allies are unable to win in Tunisia, though further east Bernard Montgomery has achieved his goal of driving the enemy out of Libya. To the west, the Casablanca Conference comes to its end and the Allies write a list of their war priorities. The Soviets, however, are on the move everywhere, closing in on Stalingrad, and launching new operations up and down the eastern front, to the dismay and detriment of the Axis forces.
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Week 178 - Hitler's Interference is Losing the War - WW2 - January 22, 1943
Episode 4 - 1-22-2022
This is a rough week for the Germans- their trapped garrison at Velikie Luki is liquidated, and their trapped army at Stalingrad is... well, it isn't going well for them. In fact, it isn't going well for the Axis anywhere this week, being pushed back or retreating in New Guinea, the Caucasus, North Africa, and on Guadalcanal. Berlin is even bombed this week as well.
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Week 177 - Food for Leningrad, Breaking the Siege! - WW2 - January 15th, 1943
Episode 3 - 1-15-2022
Soviet attacks are launched this week to destroy the Hungarians, all while the German desperation at Stalingrad and Velikie Luki continues, but in the far north the Soviets have broken through the siege of Leningrad after 16 months. And the Casablanca Conference begins, a meeting to guide the war’s future progress.
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Week 176 - A Soviet Offensive Along the Entire Front? - WW2 - January 8th, 1943
Episode 2 - 1-08-2022
Things look grim for the Germans, surrounded at Velikie Luki and Stalingrad and with no real help of relief. The Soviets are, in fact, making plans for attacks all along the front, as are the Americans to push the Japanese off of Guadalcanal.
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Week 175 - And Now It's 1943... - WW2 - January 1st, 1943
Episode 1 - 1-01-2022
The attrition cannot continue so the Japanese decide they will evacuate Guadalcanal, conceding the Solomon Islands to the Allies. The Allies are also conceding the Caucasus, and a naval battle in the far north convinces Hitler that he should scrap the entire German surface fleet. 1943 begins ominously for the Axis.
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Season 04
WW II Year 1942Week 174 - A Red Christmas - WW2 - December 25, 1942
Episode 56 - 12-25-2021
The Soviet offensive Operation Mars is over; it has failed, but Operation Little Saturn has been such a success that the Axis are forced to cancel their own Operation, Winter Storm, which was to relieve the troops trapped in Stalingrad. They remain trapped because Adolf Hitler has now forbidden them from trying to break out. The Allies run into tough Axis defense in both Tunisia and on Guadalcanal, and a French bigwig is assassinated.
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Week 173 - Guadalcanal Life Expectancy: 30 Days - WW2 - December 18, 1942
Episode 55 - 12-18-2021
Just a few weeks ago massive offensives were launched in North Africa and the Soviet Union, against the Axis. These operations and offensives have now morphed into fully fledged campaigns, and the nature of these theatres of the war has been transformed.
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Week 172 - One Year Since Pearl Harbour - WW2 - December 11, 1942
Episode 54 - 12-11-2021
The Japanese try and fail to supply their starving soldiers. The Allies fail to break through in Tunisia and New Guinea. The fighting in the USSR is bloody, but the Axis prepare for a new offensive there.
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Week 171 - Axis Armies Facing Starvation - WW2 - December 4, 1942
Episode 53 - 12-04-2021
The Soviets have launched offensives on the entire eastern front and by now hundreds of thousands of men are surrounded at Stalingrad. The Japanese win a battle at sea, but are losing a war of attrition.
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Week 170 - Bigger Than Uranus? - Mars - WW2 - November 27, 1942
Episode 52 - 11-27-2021
Last week’s counterattack was just the beginning, for the Soviets launch another giant offensive this week. And things look bad for the Axis powers in the south of the USSR. Meanwhile in France, the French scuttle their navy rather than allow it to fall into German hands.
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Week 169 - The Red Army Kicks Ass - Operation Uranus! - WW2 - November 20th, 1942
Episode 51 - 11-20-2021
After months of stubborn defense the time has finally come for the Soviet Counterstroke, but is it in time to save Stalingrad? And can the Allies reach Tunis and take all of North Africa before the Axis can reinforce?
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Week 168 - Axis and Allies Both Invade France - WW2 - November 13, 1942
Episode 50 - 11-13-2021
Operation Torch goes off this week, the Allied invasion of French Northwest Africa, but this prompts the Germans to invade European France. This is the Allies first combined major offensive in the Western Hemisphere. The Germans launch another offensive of their own this week, though- Operation Hubertus in Stalingrad. And in the South Pacific, a major naval battle begins off Guadalcanal.
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Week 167 - The Allies Break Through! - WW2 - November 6, 1942
Episode 49 - 11-06-2021
After all these months of fighting, the British 8th Army breaks through Erwin Rommel's Axis positions in North Africa, but the Allies have even bigger plans for that theater of war- a huge invasion of Vichy French North Africa to take place next week. The Soviets also have a plan for a huge invasion to take place very soon near Stalingrad, though the fighting in the city itself sees a lull the second half of this week.
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Week 166 - Nazi General Dies of Heart Attack - WW2 - October 30, 1942
Episode 48 - 10-30-2021
The Allies may be on the verge of a breakthrough in North Africa, but they're losing at sea to the Japanese this week, and the Axis are also advancing in the Caucasus, though the street by street struggle at Stalingrad continues as always.
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Week 165 - Showdown at El Alamein - WW2 - October 23, 1942
Episode 47 - 10-23-2021
Could this be the beginning of the big break in North Africa? The Allies have the men, the armor, and the fuel... they just have to deal with the Axis minefields to try and get started. And the Axis are throwing ever more men at Stalingrad as the Soviets grimly hold on. Another roller coaster of a week.
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Week 164 - Stalingrad, Stalingrad, No Retreat! - WW2 - October 16, 1942
Episode 46 - 10-16-2021
The Americans win a naval victory off Guadalcanal and even manage to reinforce the Marines there with the first Army units to arrive, but as the week ends the Japanese launch a major offensive on the island. Meanwhile far across the globe, Adolf Hitler orders that all German offensive operations except those at Stalingrad and in the Caucasus cease. There is plenty to do in Stalingrad, though, because this week all hell breaks loose there.
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Week 163 - Stalingrad Thunderdome: Paulus vs. Chuikov! - WW2 - October 9, 1942
Episode 45 - 10-09-2021
Things are looking pretty grim for Vassily Chuikov's 62nd Army in Stalingrad this week, as the German 6th Army launches its biggest series of attacks so far. The Axis are unable to get anywhere in the Caucasus, though, and the American Marines win a local victory over the Japanese on Guadalcanal, but everyone's thoughts there are on reinforcing and more reinforcing.
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Week 162 - This is Russia, The Soviet Thermopylae - WW2 - October 2, 1942
Episode 44 - 10-02-2021
The fighting for Stalingrad continues, but the Soviets forces are split and the Volga is on fire. In the Caucasus, the Axis forces for the most part are being held in check- at one point a single Soviet battalion holds off an entire Army Corps- but they're being pushed back on the Kokoda Trail in the South Seas.
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Week 161 - Stalingrad, Factory by Factory, Room by Room - WW2 - September 25, 1942
Episode 43 - 9-25-2021
Franz Halder, German Army Chief of Staff since the war began, loses his job this week, but the offensive this summer has failed to gain any of its objectives and someone has to take the blame. In the Caucasus it's slowing to a crawl, and in Stalingrad the fighting is now block by block. Meanwhile, the Japanese are making new plans for a big offensive of their own, to take Guadalcanal once and for all.
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Week 160 - Stalingrad Falls? - WW2 - September 18, 1942
Episode 42 - 9-18-2021
It's a big week, but by now they all are. The fighting in Stalingrad is intense, the fighting on Guadalcanal is intense, and the US loses a carrier in the Pacific. And the German quest for oil in the Caucasus... how's that going again?
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Week 159B - Stalingrad, Hitler's Obsession - WW2 - September 13, 1942
Episode 41 - 9-18-2021
Here's an extra weekly episode for you. The suburbs of Stalingrad have fallen and the fight for the city proper is about to begin, but before it does, three conferences take place that will decide the scope, the tactics, and the strategy of this battle.
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Week 159 - Hitler Finally Fed Up with his Army - WW2 - September 11, 1942
Episode 40 - 9-11-2021
Adolf Hitler sacks Wilhelm List, Army Group Commander in the Caucasus. His replacement does not have military command experience. The fighting there is still successful this week, though, as is the advance through the suburbs of Stalingrad. The Japanese are advancing along the Kokoda Trail and on Guadalcanal, but the Axis attacks in North Africa have failed badly.
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Week 158 - This War is Three Years Old - WW2 - September 4, 1942
Episode 39 - 9-04-2021
As the war turns three there is is no slacking in the fighting. Erwin Rommel launches another Axis attack in North Africa, but it is foiled in only days, though the Axis are advancing in the Caucasus as well as on Stalingrad, where the fight for the suburbs is now beginning. They're also advancing in the South Pacific, as the Japanese fight their way along the Kokoda Trail.
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Week 157 - Yamamoto: Midway Round Two? - World War Two - August 28, 1942
Episode 38 - 8-28-2021
The Battle of the Eastern Solomons takes place this week- another carrier battle. As for the Germans, they're advancing on Stalingrad, slowing down in the Caucasus, and Erwin Rommel is preparing to launch another assault in North Africa.
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Week 156 - Swastika Raised on Highest Point in Europe - WW2 - August 21, 1942
Episode 37 - 8-21-2021
The Axis advance in the Caucasus takes Mt. Elbrus, and the one on Stalingrad continues, and there are several raids of note this week- a Japanese one on Guadalcanal is destroyed, an Allied one on Dieppe is badly savaged, and an American one at Makin Atoll is successful in the short term, but with bad long term ramifications.
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Week 155 - No Soviet Oil for Hitler - WW2 - August 14, 1942
Episode 36 - 8-14-2021
The Axis advance into the Caucasus is going great... except the oil towns they take have no oil, and wasn't that the whole purpose? Meanwhile in the Pacific, the US Navy is suffering perhaps its greatest defeat ever off Savo Island, even as the Marines take Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo.
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Week 154 - Guadalcanal - Allies Take the Initiative - August 7, 1942
Episode 35 - 8-07-2021
The Axis Forces are on the move on the Eastern Front and in the Caucasus, but this week the Allies begin an offensive of their own: this week come Allied landings and attacks on Guadalcanal and nearby islands, the first American offensive against the Japanese.
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Week 153 - Not a Step Back! - Wehrmacht Closes in on Stalingrad - WW2 - July 31, 1942
Episode 34 - 7-31-2021
Operation Edelweiss opens with a blast, and as the Wehrmacht closes in on Stalingrad, Stalin issues that famous order. There aren't just big actions in the East, the Japanese have landed in New Guinea, the Allies try one more offensive at El Alamein, and the Americans have locked in on Guadalcanal.
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Week 152B - How Hitler Created the World's Worst Traffic Jam - WW2 - July 27, 1942
Episode 33 - 7-27-2021
"I said DAMN, this traffic jam... How I hate to be late, hurts my motor to go so slow. Time I get home my supper be cold. Damn, this traffic jam." (James Taylor, the Eastern Front, 1942)
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Week 152 - Wehrmacht Conquers 250 Miles of Nothing - WW2 - July 24, 1942
Episode 32 - 7-24-2021
The Soviets keep withdrawing from the advancing Axis forces, and Hitler keeps issuing contrary orders to try and stop that, with the results that logistics are getting screwed up and the mobile units are bogged down in huge traffic jams. The Allies have decided not to open a second front in Europe in 1942, but do choose another spot to begin the long counter offensive.
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Week 151 - Stalingrad Now a Primary Objective?! - Hitler's Chaotic Directives - WW2 - July 17, 1942
Episode 31 - 7-17-2021
The second phase of Fall Blau begins with second guessing by the Axis Powers and constant changes in directive. The Soviet Union's response to the successes of the first phase of Fall Blau is equally chaotic. Over in North Africa there is the question of it maybe ending in stalemate.
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Week 150 - Fall Blau - A Victim of Its Own Success? - WW2 - July 10, 1942
Episode 30 - 7-10-2021
Adolf Hitler is not happy, and yet phase one of Fall Blau has accomplished all of its goals and done so ahead of the timetable. However, the Soviet Army in 1942 is not the same as that in 1941, and is not waiting around this time to be captured by the hundreds of thousands, and if things continue then the Axis might just be wasting a ton of gas to take a ton of empty space.
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Week 149 - Fall Blau Begins, Stalin Caught off Guard Again - WW2 - July 3, 1942
Episode 29 - 7-03-2021
It's that time of the year again- the time when the Axis Powers drive deep into the Soviet Union. Fall Blau is the name of this year's huge offensive, and it begins this week, making great gains from the very beginning, but the Axis Powers are also making big gains this week in North Africa, taking Mersa Matruh and pushing to within 100 km of Alexandria. Can nothing stop them?
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Week 148 - Fall Blau Starts...or Does it? - WW2 - June 26, 1942
Episode 28 - 6-26-2021
Fall Blau, the huge Axis summer offensive in the Soviet Union, is supposed to being this, but is postponed to next. The smaller Operation Fridericus II does begin though, and what dos Josef Stalin make of that and the intelligence he's received? Meanwhile in North Africa, after the fall of Tobruk, the British 8th Army gets a leadership change, but Erwin Rommel is still on the move eastward into Egypt. Where will the Allies try to hold him? Half the world away, the Allies begin to establish a base at Milne Bay, New Guinea. It's a start, a small one, but a start.
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Week 147 - Tobruk: A second siege? - WW2 - June 20, 1942
Episode 27 - 6-19-2021
Two convoys head from opposite ends of the Mediterranean to supply Malta, hoping to run interference for each other, and the Battle of Sevastopol continues as the Axis slowly wear down the Soviet defenders, but the big news is Erwin Rommel's continued advances in North Africa, defeating the 8th Army again and again. Can the Allies hold Tobruk? Will they even try? Watch and find out.
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Week 146 - Sevastopol Must Fall! - WW2 - June 13, 1942
Episode 26 - 6-12-2021
It's a week of starts and stops. The Battle of Sevastopol kicks into high gear, and the Battle of Gazala enters its third phase. And what is going on in the Pacific just one week after Midway?
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Week 145c - Midway pt.2 - A New War? - WW2 - June 7, 1942
Episode 25 - 6-07-2021
We left off last time with several burning behemoths. Watch today to see the action that follows, not just on the high seas, but also in Alaska. We also turn to Washington DC and Tokyo and follow the reaction to the Battle of Midway there. The Japanese one may surprise you.
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Week 145b - Germany to Strike Strongest Fortress in the World - WW2 - June 6, 1942
Episode 24 - 6-06-2021
Midway isn't the only fight right now. Germany is trying to crack the mighty fortress of Sevastopol and take the whole Crimea. In North Africa, Rommel is routing the Allies, but in Malta the arrival of ever more fighter planes bodes well for the Allies.
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Week 145a - Midway, pt.1 - Clash of the Titans - June 5, 1942
Episode 23 - 6-05-2021
The supposedly surprise Japanese operations against Midway Atoll and the Aleutian Islands kick-off, but they don't know that Allied intelligence has cracked their codes. As the Japanese fleet advances in the Central Pacific and Japanese planes bomb Midway, the US Navy has a big surprise waiting for them.
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Week 144 - Rommel's Desert Dash - The Whole Bloody Afrika Korps! - Gazala - WW2 - May 30, 1942
Episode 22 - 5-29-2021
Erwin Rommel begins his surprise new offensive with "Rommel's Moonlight Ride", bringing all of his mighty mobile units to the fray in North Africa, while in the Pacific, dozens of warships and tens of thousands of men set sail from Japan- their mission? Attack the Aleutian Islands and Midway Island, but above all, destroy the US Pacific Fleet!
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Week 143 - AF is short of fresh water - WW2 - May 23, 1942
Episode 21 - 5-22-2021
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov arrives in London to meet with Churchill, but at home in the USSR the Germans have launched an instantly successful offensive. In North Africa and Malta the British are building up, unaware that Erwin Rommel is just about to strike, and an American ruse discovers secret Japanese attack plans.
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Week 142 - Joseph Stalin Jumps the Gun - May 16, 1942
Episode 20 - 5-15-2021
The Soviets pre-empt a German offensive with one of their own in the south of the Eastern Front, but that's not the only fighting. The skies over Malta and the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence are full of action. Meanwhile, two races against time - and the Japanese - come to an end in India.
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Week 141 - Carrier vs. Carrier - The Battle of Coral Sea - WW2 - May 9, 1942
Episode 19 - 5-08-2021
This week sees a major clash between the naval forces of the Japanese and the Allies. Both sides take big damage, though on the tactical level it is a victory for the Japanese. Operationally, however, they must postpone their attacks towards Port Moresby. They are busy making plans all the while, though, for their upcoming attack against Midway Atoll in the Central Pacific. They also finally have success ending an offensive this week with the conquest of the Philippines when Corregidor falls. Japan's ally Germany begins an offensive of their own this week on the Kerch Peninsula. The Allies, for their part, launch an offensive of their own this week against Vichy French-held Madagascar, and they take the main port, Diego Suarez.
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Week 140 - Japan - One Battle from Victory? - May 2, 1942
Episode 18 - 5-01-2021
Now Burma and control of the Burma Road have fallen to the Japanese. Can nothing stop them? The Allies are thinking about maybe using the Solomon Islands as a base to build to try and fight back, but to do that they'll need control of the Coral Sea, but both sides are sending warships there since the Japanese plan to take Port Moresby. The Allies are aware of this, however, since they have the advantage of being able to read a substantial part of Japan's radio traffic. It is a week of foreshadowing not just there, but also as the Allies send ships to take Madagascar from the Vichy French and the Soviets prepare to launch an offensive in the south of the Eastern Front.
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Week 139 - Allied Intelligence cracks Japanese codes! - WW2 - April 25, 1942
Episode 17 - 4-24-2021
After last week's Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, pretty much the entire Japanese fleet is sent out looking for American ships. They do not find them, but the enormous amount of radio traffic they generate is a treasure trove for Allied codebreakers to work on. The Allies ship 46 British Spitfire planes to Malta... and all of them are destroyed by the Axis within 48 hours. Germany begins bombing tourist and cultural destinations in Britain, and to make things even worse for the British this week, they realize they can't hold Burma and are now making tracks for India, with the Japanese Army in hot pursuit.
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Week 138 - America Strikes Back - Tokyo in Flames - WW2 - April 18 1942
Episode 16 - 4-17-2021
The Doolittle Raid is just a little bombing raid over Tokyo that doesn't do that much physical damage. It does, however, have big repercussions- partly in terms of future offensive plans for the Japanese fleet, and partly in terms of the thousands of Chinese lives taken in reprisals for allowing the US bombers to land in China. There is small scattered action on the Eastern Front, more Japanese advances in Burma, and a French VIP escapes captivity in Germany and heads for Switzerland and freedom.
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Week 137 - America Surrenders - The Fall of Bataan - April 10, 1942
Episode 15 - 4-10-2021
After holding out since the beginning of the year, the American and Filipino defenders at Bataan can do so no more, and they surrender to the Japanese- the Bataan Death March for the 75,000 prisoners begins. Meanwhile, the Japanese carrier fleet launches a raid on Colombo and shipping in the Bay of Bengal, wrecking Britain's Eastern Fleet in the process and forcing them to move to African coastal bases. Adolf Hitler issues the directive outlining his plans for a summer offensive against the USSR that aim south toward the Caucasus.
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Week 136 - The Carpet Bombing of Germany begins - WW2 - April 3, 1942
Episode 14 - 4-03-2021
Britain's campaign to firebomb the old towns of Germany where civilians reside begins in earnest this week. The British also destroy the port at St. Nazaire in commando action. In the Indian Ocean, however, they are avoiding contact with the Japanese, even while on land the Japanese advance in both Burma and New Guinea.
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Week 135 - New Blitzkrieg Against a Wall of 9 Million! - WW2 - March 27, 1942
Episode 13 - 3-27-2021
The Allies make plans to bring the war to Germany by possibly attacking in North Africa. Holding Malta might be the key to such adventures, but it is increasingly harder to do. The Soviets and German make plans for adding millions of soldiers to their ranks, while springtime mud has kept the front mostly quiet. The Japanese plans for the conquest of Burma are still advancing, though the fighting this week is especially brutal.
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Week 134 - Crap Tactics in the Pacific - Shall MacArthur Return? - WW2 - March 20, 1942
Episode 12 - 3-20-2021
MacArthur makes one of the most iconic remarks of the whole war, but considering the fact that the Philippines seem unsalvageable, it's pretty unclear just how he'll do it, especially since even though ever more American soldiers are arriving in Australia, the Japanese threat to Australia grows daily. Bill Slim arrives in Burma to take command of I Burma Corps, and Joe Stilwell has taken over two Chinese Nationalist armies, so the defense of Burma looks like it might go on a while longer, though the Allies are at a serious disadvantage after losing Rangoon. The Japanese, for their part, are trying to figure out how the heck they're going to administer all the territory they've taken this year and bring natural resources to Japan itself. There is still scattered fighting in the USSR, but the spring muds have put pad to any major offensives for the time being. As for the British, they launch Operation Outward, a hydrogen balloon campaign over Germany.
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Week 133 - Tumbling Capitals - MacArthur on the Run - WW2 - March 13, 1942
Episode 11 - 3-13-2021
Rangoon in Burma falls to the invaders without a shot, the Dutch East Indies surrender 100,000 men to them at Batavia, and the Japanese land on New Guinea and begin their advance on port Moresby. The first phase of their offensives is now over. The Philippines still hold out, their armies under siege at Bataan, but Douglas MacArthur, Allied commander there, has made his getaway, one day to hopefully return. American troops do begin landings on New Caledonia, to build a base there to begin the fight back.
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The Japanese Raid Australia and the British Raid France - March 6, 1942
Episode 10 - 3-06-2021
The Japanese advance in Burma continues, threatening Rangoon, and also make landings on Java and New Guinea. They even go so far as an air raid on Broome, Australia. The British are making raids of their own this week, Operation Biting against Bruneval in German-occupied France. As for the Germans themselves, 100,000 of them are still surrounded by the Red Army at Demyansk, and Hitler is told that the Soviets might have enough reserves to defend against a renewed summer offensive.
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Week 131 - Japan Destroys Allied Armada in Biggest Naval Battle in Decades - WW2 - February 27, 1942
Episode 9 - 2-27-2021
The Japanese are advancing in the Dutch East Indies and Burma, brushing aside defenders, but their biggest victory this week is at sea, when they not only brush aside the ABDA Fleet, but literally wipe it out of existence. Meanwhile Italian and Germans submarines are patrolling the Caribbean, sinking any Allied merchant shipping they find. It is yet another week of Axis successes.
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Week 130 - Britain's Worst Defeat - Singapore Falls - WW2 - February 20, 1942
Episode 8 - 2-20-2021
The most humiliating defeat in British history according to Winston Churchill- 80,000 men lost as prisoners of war! Humiliated by an enemy far less numerous than themselves! There are many ways to describe the fall of Singapore; these are but two of them. The Japanese are also bombing Australia and invading Sumatra, Bali, and Timor this week, so they are certainly not resting on their laurels. Meanwhile in the Soviet Union, thousands of Red Army paratroops are dropping behind German lines.
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Week 129- German Army Surrounded: You Did Nazi That Coming! - WW2 - February 13, 1942
Episode 7 - 2-13-2021
The Soviet Red Army has managed to surround some 100,000 German soldiers in the Demyansk Pocket. The Allies are surrounded in Fortress Singapore and the Japanese spend the week breaking in. The Allies are also unable to supply Malta by ship because of continuous heavy Axis bombing of the island and its surroundings, which bodes ill for Allied operations in North Africa. The Germans also make a bold naval move this week- sending two capital ships right up the English Channel under British noses, making for German ports.
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Week 128 - Pearl Harbour Avenged! - WW2 - February 6, 1942
Episode 6 - 2-06-2021
The Japanese advance in Burma and the Dutch East Indies, but they've reached the end of the Malayan Campaign- Singapore, which they have under siege. They now prepare for the final assault. The Allies are going on the offensive at sea, though, in the Marshalls-Gilberts Raids, while on land in the Soviet Union the Red Army launches another series of offensives against the Germans.
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Week 127 - Fortress Singapore Stands Alone! - WW2 - January 30, 1942
Episode 5 - 1-30-2021
The Japanese advance on Singapore has gotten close enough that the British have destroyed the causeway to Singapore Island. The Japanese are also making attacks in the Solomon Islands, Burma, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies- their threat to Australia is real. Erwin Rommel's surprise spoiler offensive in North Africa takes Benghazi, and on the eastern front the Soviets break a hole in the German lines in the north even as the temperature drops to the -50s.
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Week 126 - The Formalization of Extermination - The Wannsee Conference - WW2 - January 23, 1942
Episode 4 - 1-23-2021
Nazi Germany's "Holocaust by Bullets" has already claimed over a million lives over the past 8 months; this week German authorities hold a conference to streamline and systematize the process of extermination. Gas will now be the preferred method of murder. The Japanese are murdering Allied soldiers that fall into their hands as they advance ever closer to Singapore. The Soviet offensive continues along the entire Eastern Front, but the orders and objectives grow ever more confusing and chaotic. In North Africa, Erwin Rommel launches a surprise offensive against the Allies and make a lightning advance the final two days of the week.
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Week 125 - German U-Boats to Strike New York - WW2 - January 16, 1942
Episode 3 - 1-16-2021
Operation Pauchenslag, long-range German submarines operating just of the US Coast, kicks into action this week, as does the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies. They also take Kuala Lumpur. Meanwhile, the Soviet Red Army offensive all along the Eastern Front has its first full week of action, with the Soviets making some real territorial gains in the center, though a German offensive in the Crimea catches them off guard.
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Week 124 - Washington DC Abandons The Troops in the Field - WW2 - January 9, 1942
Episode 2 - 1-09-2021
The US government realizes that it cannot send help to relieve the US and Filipino forces in the Philippines, but it does not tell those forces. Meanwhile in the USSR, a huge Red Army offensive against entrenched German forces begins along the entire frontline. The Germans have pulled back in North Africa, though, to consolidate. The Japanese enter Manila and advance in Malaya, but are forced to withdraw in China.
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Week 123 - The Formation of the United Nations! - WW2 - January 2, 1942
Episode 1 - 1-02-2021
At the ongoing Arcadia Conference, 26 nations sign the Declaration of the United Nations. Otherwise it is very much a week of motion and changes in motion: in the USSR the Soviets are on the move in the center and the Crimea, the Japanese are slowing their movement in China, the Americans are finishing their movement in the Philippines, and the Axis are moving backward in North Africa. The Luftwaffe also decides that Malta must be eliminated as a base for the Allies.
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WW II Year 1941Week 122 - Heinz Guderian's Christmas and the fall of Hong Kong - WW2 - December 26, 1941
Episode 63 - 12-26-2020
The Japanese offensives and advances in Southeast Asia and the Pacific continue unabated and both Hong Kong and Wake Island fall. British and American leaders begin the Arcadia Conference to decide just how they are going to fight this war together, and there are more changes made in the German High Command on the Eastern Front, even as the Soviets make advances there.
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Week 121 - The Japanese are unstoppable everywhere - WW2 - December 19, 1941
Episode 62 - 12-19-2020
The Japanese make gains in Malaya, Burma, Hong Kong, Borneo, and the Philippines. The Allies also have trouble in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, where they are beginning to seriously suffer from a lack of capital ships. The Soviet Red Army is advancing, though, and Stalin takes personal control of planning for the upcoming counteroffensive, while Adolf Hitler takes personal control of the German Army.
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Week 120k - Hitler Declares War on the USA and the Jews - WW2 - December 12, 1941
Episode 61 - 12-12-2020
The Japanese launch attacks all over Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and launch a preemptive surprise attack on the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The war is suddenly much larger. In the USSR, the Germans find themselves now heavily on the defensive after the failure to take Moscow, while in North Africa, Erwin Rommel decides he must withdraw out of Cyrenaica to await reinforcements.
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Week 120j E.10 - The Road to War - Pearl Harbour - WW2 - December 7, 1941
Episode 60 - 12-07-2020
The circle closes, and we see why these fateful decisions were made and what the United States' reaction will be.
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Week 120i E.09 - A Pacific War - Pearl Harbour - WW2 - December 7, 1941
Episode 59 - 12-07-2020
Today marks the beginning of a war all over the South Pacific and Southeast Asia. How will the world change from here?
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Week 120h E.08 - Burning People - Pearl Harbour - WW2 - December 7, 1941
Episode 58 - 12-07-2020
The Japanese attack is over, but the damage is done and the remaining Americans in Hawaii are left to react to their defeat.
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Week 120g E.07 - Dogfights - Pearl Harbour - WW2 - December 7, 1941
Episode 57 - 12-07-2020
American pilots are in the air, defending Pearl Harbor. They have already lost so much, and the Japanese show no sign of letting up the attack. How much will the Americans accomplish with their defense?
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Week 120f E.06 - Another Wave - Pearl Harbour - WW2 - December 7, 1941
Episode 56 - 12-07-2020
Desperate and shocked, American forces scramble to mount a resistance to the attack. But how effective can this be as the Japanese launch their second decisive raid?
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Week 120e E.05 - Burning Ships - Pearl Harbour - WW2 - December 7, 1941
Episode 55 - 12-07-2020
The first wave continues, and with it, the chaos and destruction.
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Week 120d E.04 - Tiger, Tiger, Tiger - Pearl Harbour - WW2 - December 7, 1941
Episode 54 - 12-07-2020
The first wave commences its attack, how successful will it be? Will months of planning and preparation pay off?
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Week 120c E.03 - Calm Before the Storm - Pearl Harbour - WW2 - - December 7, 1941
Episode 53 - 12-07-2020
War is sort of declared, but Japanese planes have already started their attack.
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Week 120b E.02 - Genda's Plan - Pearl Harbour - WW2 - December 7, 1941
Episode 52 - 12-07-2020
There are signals of attack and a buzz of chatter in the air, but will this be enough to force the American defenders out of their beds?
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Week 120a E.01 - Enter Japan - Pearl Harbour - WW2 - December 7, 1941
Episode 51 - 12-07-2020
Japan's meticulous planning and preparation made it possible to surprise the Americans at Pearl Harbor. Alert on Oahu is largely nonexistent. It is the deep breath before the plunge.
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Week 119 - Winter is Here! The failure of Barbarossa - WW2 - December 5, 1941
Episode 50 - 12-05-2020
The Wehrmacht is halted by the Red Army at the gates of Moscow. Not only that, but a Red Army counteroffensive begins pushing the Germans back decisively. The Germans are also beginning to withdraw from their siege of Tobruk in North Africa. Japan, however, is advancing all over the Pacific, sending troop transports into the South China Sea, though it is unclear just whom Japan plans to attack. The Japanese are also- in top secrecy- sending a force of aircraft carriers to soon attack the American Pacific fleet at anchor at Pearl Harbor.
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Week 118 - Winter is here? The Germans can see Moscow - WW2 - November 28, 1941
Episode 49 - 11-28-2020
The German advance has pushed within artillery range of Moscow, but can they reach it- and take it- before the Red Army and the murderously cold weather halt them? Meanwhile in North Africa, both Erwin Rommel and Claude Auchinlek make daring and brilliant moves that save the fight for their sides. A mighty Japanese fleet is now secretly heading for Hawaii to make a surprise attack on American territory while the US worries where in Southeast Asia the Japanese are planning to attack.
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Week 117 - Surprise Attack On Rommel! - Operation Crusader Begins - WW2 - November 21, 1941
Episode 48 - 11-21-2020
The long planned Allied Offensive in North Africa- Operation Crusader- begins, but the Allies are worrying about how to defend Singapore in case of Japanese aggression. The Germans renew their drive on Moscow, but their number one flying ace perishes, a major PR hit.
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Week 116 - Night Vision Brings Triumph to the British! - WW2 - November 14, 1941
Episode 47 - 11-14-2020
The British sink an entire convoy of supplies heading for Rommel in North Africa by using radar at night, something their opponents lack. In North Africa itself, the Allies are gearing up for a major offensive to begin in a few days. Meanwhile, the Germans are gearing up for a renewed drive on Moscow even as Georgy Zhukov launches small attacks there designed to spoil the larger German plans.
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Week 115 - The Red Army must double in size... and now! - WW2 - November 7, 1941
Episode 46 - 11-07-2020
There is a lull now on the Eastern Front, and Adolf Hitler uses the time to plan another drive on Moscow and points beyond, but he'll be facing a larger Red Army, as reinforcements and recruits hope to nearly double its size in a matter of weeks. The British are counting down the days to their upcoming North African offensive, and the Japanese are sending out orders that will change the world dramatically in a single morning.
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Week 114 - Winter is Coming - WW2 - October 31, 1941
Episode 45 - 10-31-2020
Operation Typhoon is halted until the coming winter can freeze enough ground to increase mobility. But the ever colder weather is a disaster waiting to happen for an already over-stretched German supply line.
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Week 113 - Martial Law in Moscow, but is the Cavalry coming? - WW2 - October 24, 1941
Episode 44 - 10-24-2020
The Germans draw ever closer to Moscow, but Soviet reinforcements have begun to arrive from Siberia and the city's defenses have grown stronger. Meanwhile in the south, the Germans are sweeping into the Crimea and looking hungrily at the Caucasus.
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Week 112 - Panic in Moscow! The Germans are here! - WW2 - October 17, 1941
Episode 43 - 10-17-2020
Moscow panics as the Germans edge closer and take prisoners by the hundreds of thousands, even as the temperature drops far below freezing. At home in Germany, Josef Goebbels has a problem - he's promised victory too soon and too often. And in Japan, a government falls.
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Week 111- An Open Road to Moscow! - WW2- October 10, 1941
Episode 42 - 10-10-2020
The road to Moscow does indeed lay open before the Germans, but for how long? And can they exploit such an opportunity- since the panzers are busy encircling hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers near Vyazema? Georgy Zhukov arrives in Moscow to take charge of the Soviet defenses and try to shut the door.
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Week 110 - A Huge New German Offensive Begins - Operation Typhoon! - WW2 - October 3, 1941
Episode 41 - 10-03-2020
Adolf Hitler's renewed drive on Moscow, the Soviet capital, begins this week, even as the Japanese drive on Changsha ends. But major news this week is the colossal amount of equipment, arms, and ammunition that Britain and the neutral USA plan to ship to the beleaguered Soviet Union.
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Week 109 - Free from the Nazi Occupation - but for how long can it last? WW2 - September 26, 1941
Episode 40 - 9-26-2020
In former Yugoslavia, the Republic of Uzice breaks free from the German occupation, even as the Germans are mopping up the masses of shattered Soviet Armies after last week's capture of Kiev. In the north, it really looks as if Leningrad will hold out for the time being, and German troops from both north and south converge on the center for the coming drive on Moscow.
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Week 108 - Another week, another half million for the Germans - WW2 - September 19, 1941
Episode 39 - 9-19-2020
Kiev falls to the Germans, yielding hundreds of thousands of prisoners as whole armies are surrounded, but behind the lines all over German-occupied territories, partisan movements are gaining steam. Meanwhile, in China, Japan launches another campaign against Changsha.
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Week 107 - Victory for the Red Army! - WW2 - September 12, 1941
Episode 38 - 9-12-2020
The German invasion of the Soviet Union has taken enormous amounts of territory, but this week the Red Army not only stops the Germans, they score a ringing victory. However, Leningrad comes under siege and Kiev is in great danger, and Adolf Hitler is issuing directives for the next phase of the Operation.
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Week 106 - The war is two years old - WW2 - 106 - September 5, 1941
Episode 37 - 9-05-2020
It is two years this week since Germany invaded Poland. That European conflict soon became a global one. Japan's invasion of China began two years before that, but with Japan allied to the Axis Powers, they are now the same conflict. Those Axis are all fighting together now to try and defeat the Soviet Union, but the war has grown not just in the scale of the armies fighting, but also in the scale of man's inhumanity to man. We see that this week in German occupied territory.
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Week 105 - The Allies Invade Iran, Barbarossa Continues - WW2 - August 29, 1941
Episode 36 - 8-29-2020
The British and Soviets work together invade Iran, while Barbarossa trudges ever on, with heavy losses. Bletchley Park intercepts German messages, and unease grows among the German public.
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Week 104 - "There are no Soviet Prisoners of War, only Traitors" - WW2 - August 22, 1941
Episode 35 - 8-22-2020
Josef Stalin is forming new armies to fight off the German onslaught, and yet it continues gaining ground in the north and the south. He also issues orders Draconian orders to the Red Army concerning any form of surrender.
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Week 103 - Churchill and Roosevelt vow to destroy all Nazis - WW2 - August 15, 1941
Episode 34 - 8-15-2020
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt issue a charter that lays out their thoughts for the future, the Soviets are in trouble on two fronts, and Adolf Hitler repeats his orders to those who failed to heed them the first time.
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Week 102 - Tanks, but no Tanks - Hitler Hinders the Blitzkrieg - WW2 - August 8, 1941
Episode 33 - 8-08-2020
In Japan those in power are divided as to what to do as war with the Western powers looks more and more likely. Meanwhile in the USSR the war gets deadlier and deadlier, but also more and more confusing with leadership conflicts on both sides of the front.
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Week 101 - Japan is Getting Hungry, Barbarossa is Confused - WW2 - August 1, 1941
Episode 32 - 8-01-2020
Japan needs resources for its seemingly endless war in China, but where to look for them? And who might have a problem with it? Meanwhile in the Soviet Union, Hitler's forces have been diverted from the Moscow Road, and are on the move in the north and the south.
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Week 100 - The Wehrmacht - an Army on Horseback - WW2 - July 25 1941
Episode 31 - 7-25-2020
Although we may picture panzers when we think of the German Army in WW2, it was very much an army that relied on horses- especially in the east- for a large part of its supplies and logistics, and the horse situation on the Eastern Front has grown dire. Japan's economic situation has also grown dire and they are now looking south for new sources of raw materials.
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Week 099 - Barbarossa: a Wehrmacht Soap Opera - WW2 - July 18 1941
Episode 30 - 7-18-2020
As the German armed forces stretch further and further into the USSR, the Wehrmacht command doesn't seem to agree where they are really going. In the Middle East, the Facsit French forces are delivered a hard blow as the Allied Syrian campaign comes to an end.
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Week 098 - Has Germany Lost WW2 Already in Mid-1941? - WW2 - July 11 1941
Episode 29 - 7-11-2020
Germany keeps advancing on the eastern front, and yet by now, transport and supply problems are seriously undermining the capability of the German spearheads, even as they pull further away from the infantry. The Syria-Lebanon campaign is coming to an end, though, and an armistice is proposed which would give the Allies victory if accepted.
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Week 097 - Wehrmacht 1/3 of Way to Moscow - WW2 - July 4 1941
Episode 28 - 7-04-2020
Operation Barbarossa continues this week but is already running into problems that are gonna be hard to fix. The Japanese are thinking future war strategy, while the British set up a focused research program on nuclear power and atom bombs...
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Week 096b - Operation Barbarossa - End of the Nazi-Soviet Alliance - WW2 - June 27 1941
Episode 27 - 6-27-2020
Operation Barbarossa kicks off this week with action all along the front as German panzers pierce through deep into the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, Claude Auchinleck becomes Commander of the Allied forces in the Middle East that capture Damascus.
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Week 096a - Operation Barbarossa - Biggest Land Invasion in History - WW2 - June 22 1941
Episode 26 - 6-22-2020
June 22 1941. The first day of Operation Barbarossa begins as Adolf Hitler’s German armies invade Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union with the largest force on the longest front ever seen in human history...
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Week 095 - French Killing French in Syria - WW2 - June 20, 1941
Episode 25 - 6-20-2020
The Allies continue advancing into Vichy French Syria, but they are halted and pushed back by Erwin Rommel at the Halfaya Pass in Libya. Meanwhile, the last preparations are being made for Operation Barbarossa. It will begin in two days.
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Week 094 - Finland and France Join Hitler - WW2 - June 13 1941
Episode 24 - 6-13-2020
Germany, Romania and Finland prepare for a gigantic invasion of the Soviet Union, whose own military is in a dire state. The Allies invade Vichy French Syria and prepare to relieve the Australians besieged at Tobruk.
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Week 093 - British Officers Abandon Their Men to the Nazis - WW2 - June 6 1941
Episode 23 - 6-06-2020
The British morale reaches new low after losses at Crete and the loss of the HMS Hood. New plans are made for North-Africa and Syria to restore the public and the soldier's faith.
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Week 092 - Sink the Bismarck! - The Pride of the Kriegsmarine's Demise - WW2 - May 30 1941
Episode 22 - 5-30-2020
This week, the Battle of Crete continues as the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen set sail to the Atlantic, starting one of the most dramatic episodes in the histories of the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine.
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Week 091 - Invasion of Crete: a Bloody Mess - WW2 - May 23 1941
Episode 21 - 5-23-2020
Operation Mercury commences as fallschirmjäger airborne troops land on the Greek island of Crete. A bloody and messy battle follows as it turns out to be costly in more ways than one.
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Week 090 - Nazi Nuts Trading Places & Victory for the Commonwealth - WW2 - May 16, 1941
Episode 20 - 5-16-2020
In the week that Rudolf Hess makes his flight to Britain, the Luftwaffe prepares for theirs to Crete. The British utilize their code-breaking methods and prepare for defense.
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Week 089 - Enigma Captured! - WW2 - May 9, 1941
Episode 19 - 5-09-2020
An Enigma encode is captured in the Atlantic Ocean as the Germans make plans for a new offensive in Crete. Britain is heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe and fighting continues in Iraq, China and East-Africa.
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Week 088 - Balkans in Nazi Hands - A Greek Tragedy - WW2 - May 02, 1941
Episode 18 - 5-02-2020
Greece falls as Axis troops push through the last Allied defenses. New plans are made for a German invasion of Crete, and a new war breaks out between Great Britain and Iraq.
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Week 087 - Another Last Stand at Thermopylae - The Battle of Greece - WW2 - April 25, 1941
Episode 17 - 4-25-2020
The Battle of Greece continues as forces clash once more at the historic site of Thermopylae.
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Week 086 - Yugoslavia Crushed - Battle for Greece Continues - WW2 - April 18, 1941
Episode 16 - 4-18-2020
The Battles for Yugoslavia and Greece continue as the Soviet-Union and Japan sign a non-aggression pact.
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Week 085 - Nazis in the Balkans - The Invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia - WW2 - April 11, 1941
Episode 15 - 4-11-2020
This week, the German Army invades Greece and Yugoslavia as it launches Operation Marita and Operation 25 respectively. They also take some remarkable captives in North-Africa.
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Week 084 - Rommel Storms Into North-Africa - WW2 - April 4, 1941
Episode 14 - 4-04-2020
The British thought they would be safe for a while, but this week they are proven wrong. This week, Erwin Rommel begins his advance towards the East of North-Africa.
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Week 083 - Yugoslavia Joins the Axis Powers. and then they don’t - WW2 - March 28, 1941
Episode 13 - 3-28-2020
This week, the Yugoslavia is the stage for some rather dramatic and quite consequential events. Furthermore, the Nigerian Army keeps on doing well in East-Africa, while the Italians think they can outsmart the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean.
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Week 082 - Culling the Nazi Wolfpacks - Submarines, Spies, China, and Africa - WW2 - March 21 1941
Episode 12 - 3-21-2020
While two more Kriegsmarine u-boat aces go down, the moving parts of the war are getting more complex leaving the intelligence services scrambling to separate fact from fiction - they don't always get it right.
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Week 081 - Nigerians Chasing Italians Like Cheetahs Hunt a Bull - WW2 - March 14, 1941
Episode 11 - 3-14-2020
An Italian offensive into Greece is prepared, just as the Germans are preparing to also attack Greece via Bulgaria. Meanwhile, a daring and spectacular dash is made by the Nigerian Army.
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Week 080 - Bulgaria Joins the Fascist Alliance - WW2 - 080 - March 7, 1941
Episode 10 - 3-07-2020
German troops pour into Bulgaria as they join the Axis alliance, while British troops enter Greece in anticipation of a German attack. Meanwhile, the British celebrate victories in East-Africa and on the Atlantic.
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Week 079 - The Nazis Building Bridges, Not Walls - WW2 - February 28, 1941
Episode 9 - 2-29-2020
Parts of the British forces in North-Africa are being send to Greece to strengthen the Allied position there. While the remaining British plan for the near future, others make huge advances in East-Africa and Hitler plans his attack on Greece through Bulgaria.
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Week 078 - The Brits Will Walk 500 Miles, and They Will Walk 500 More - WW2 - February 22, 1941
Episode 8 - 2-22-2020
As the British make spectacular advances in East-Africa, with even more spectacular advances on the horizon, South-Eastern Europe is getting increasingly tense.
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Week 077 - Enter Erwin Rommel - The British Advance in Africa - WW2 - February 15 1941
Episode 7 - 2-15-2020
While the Germans send one of their best generals to North Africa to bail out the Italians, Great Britain switches focus from Libya to Greece, but make symbolically important gains in East Africa.
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Week 076 - Rommel to fix the Bungle in Benghazi - WW2 - February 8, 1941
Episode 6 - 2-08-2020
As the Italian campaigns in Africa collapse, Hitler considers his options and then chooses Erwin Rommel to rescue their Italian allies.
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Week 075 - Africa, the Axis’ Achilles Heel - The Allied African Campaigns - WW2 - February 1, 1941
Episode 5 - 2-01-2020
Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas dies this week as Italy is still uncomfortably wrapped up in the Albanian Mountains. Italy also finds itself in a pickle on other fronts, as Allied troops in Africa moves into Italian territory with three offensives this week.
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Week 074 - When Anti-Semites Infight, Jews Still Die - Pogroms in Romania - WW2 - January 25, 1941
Episode 4 - 1-25-2020
The British offensive in East-Africa takes off with some rapid advances. Meanwhile in Eastern-Europe, Romania is the stage of fierce anti-Semitism, but also infighting between two of the groups causing the anti-Semitism.
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Week 073 - Mao Against Everyone - China at War and Civil War - WW2 - January 18, 1941
Episode 3 - 1-18-2020
The Chinese Communists and Nationalists Clash while they're also both facing Japanese armies in the North. And although the Communists are not the obvious victor this week, the battle has bigger ramifications. Other action takes place in Cambodia and the Mediterranean.
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Week 072 - Fighting Far Away From Home - Allied Advance in Africa - WW2 - January 11 1941
Episode 2 - 1-11-2020
Action in Albania. Action in North-Africa. Action in East-Africa. Action in China and action on the Mediterranean. It looks like every belligerent party is amping up its efforts to get a foothold wherever they are. And if your enemy is gaining ground? You just throw more material and men at them.
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Week 071 - It's 1941 - A World at War - WW2 - January 4 1941
Episode 1 - 1-04-2020
1941 begins with action in North-Africa and China, but Indy also takes a moment to assess the current stakes and stakeholders in the East-Asian theatre. What is sure, is that 1941 will be an eventful year!
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Season 02
WW II year 1940Week 070 - Winter is Coming, Peace is Not - The Frozen Fronts - WW2 - December 28, 1940
Episode 52 - 12-28-2019
Italy finds itself in a dire position in Albania as Christmas is celebrated in a war-torn Europe and fighting continues in China.
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Week 069 - Red Beard’s Ghost Returns - German Invasion Plans - WW2 - December 21 1940
Episode 51 - 12-21-2019
What Adolf Hitler expects to be his Magnum Opus offensive is still 6 months in the future, but it's going to need plans and more plans. The British, though, are seeing success right now on two fronts far to the south.
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Week 068 - The Empire Strikes Back - Britain’s Operation Compass - WW2 - December 14, 1940
Episode 50 - 12-14-2019
The First British offensive of the War begins in North Africa. Meanwhile, the German Knickebein system is designed for bombers to accurately bomb British targets at night. This is what the Brits do to stop them.
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Week 067 - The Road to Moscow - German Invasion Plans - WW2 - December 7, 1940
Episode 49 - 12-07-2019
Wilhelm Canaris once again disturbs Hitler's plans to drag Spain into the war, as the Germans finalize their plan for the Invasion of the Soviet Union which is scheduled for the summer of 1941. Meanwhile, the Greek counter-offensive into Albania loses steam and the Pope objects to the German T-4 euthanasia program.
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Week 066 - The German Plan to Destroy French Culture - The Occupation of France - WW2 - November 30, 1940
Episode 48 - 11-30-2019
While Hitler consolidates his power in occupied France, Japanese and Italian forces try to get an edge, but fail. The war is not looking too well for anyone at this point.
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Week 065 - Cracks in the Soviet-Nazi Alliance - WW2 - 065 - November 23, 1940
Episode 47 - 11-23-2019
As the Greek campaign continues, Hitler points his attention eastwards. While he can't invade the Soviet Union just yet, his dependence on it is making him nervous.
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Week 064 - Britain shows Japan how to Attack Pearl Harbor - Battle of Taranto - WW2 - November 16, 1940
Episode 46 - 11-16-2019
Japan has two wins this week, and one might turn out to be very consequential for the rest of the war. In the meantime, the British RAF fights the Luftwaffe and Italy struggles in their offensive against Greece.
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Week 063 - Britain’s First Victory, Germany Plunders Europe & Mussolini’s Folly - WW2 - November 9, 1940
Episode 45 - 11-09-2019
The Battle of Britain is finished, but the war is far from over. New German plans are being made for the Balkans and Greece, where the Italian offensive is not as successful as planned.
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Week 062 - Mussolini plays Hitler like a Fiddle - The Invasion of Greece - WW2 - November 2, 1940
Episode 44 - 11-02-2019
A new front opens up in Greece as the Italians invade, while the Battle of Britain seems to come to an end.
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Week 061 - Hitler is Disappointed by his Allies - WW2 - October 26, 1940
Episode 43 - 10-26-2019
Hitler finds out that not everyone is ready to do his bidding. Much to the frustration of Hitler, Franco, Petain and Mussolini all have their reasons to take the high road.
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Week 060 - USA enters WW2 in 1940?! - WW2 - October 19, 1940
Episode 42 - 10-19-2019
The World War seems to get bigger and bigger as Italy plans to invade Greece and the USA takes a stance.
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Week 059 - It’s Raining Bombs, Keep Calm and Carry On - Life During the Blitz - WW2 - October 12 1940
Episode 41 - 10-12-2019
The Blitz continues while Chinese Communists are fighting Chinese Nationalist in China. But the mass bombing of civilian targets does not really do what it is supposed to.
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Week 058 - Hitler and the Art of the Deal - German Negotiations with Spain - WW2 - October 5 1940
Episode 40 - 10-05-2019
Hitler is trying to get new Axis Powers on board in his fight against Britain, promising them all huge territorial gains.
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Week 057 - An Axis of Evil is Complete - Japan Joins Italy and Germany - WW2 - September 28 1940
Episode 39 - 9-28-2019
This week, the factions of World War Two begin to crystallize as the Japanese join the Axis powers.
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Week 056 - The Brits teach the Germans to bugger off! - WW2 - September 21 1940
Episode 38 - 9-21-2019
The Battle of Britain continues as planes fight over the South-English shorelines and large parts of London are targeted during the Blitz. However, this week the ultimate goal of this air battle is postponed. The invasion of Britain, Operation Sea Lion, is called off. For now at least.
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Week 055 - The Nazi Invasion of Britain?! - Operation Sealion - WW2 - September 14 1940
Episode 37 - 9-14-2019
The Blitz continues as the German army seems close to the execution of Operation Sea Lion: The Invasion of Britain.
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Week 054 - Burn London, Burn - The Blitz Begins - WW2 - 054 - September 07 1940
Episode 36 - 9-07-2019
This week, the battle in the skies of Britain enters a new, even deadlier phase, as the crowded streets of London turn into a war zone. It is the start of the Blitz.
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Week 053 - 366 Days of Crushed Hopes, Suffering and Death - WW2 - August 31 1940
Episode 35 - 8-31-2019
As the war turns one year old, there seems to be no end in sight. The Luftwaffe starts targeting civilian areas of London, the peoples of Eastern Europe switch country without moving houses, in occupied territory the population continues to be terrorized, and an end to the Chinese war that has been raging on for years now seems ever further away.
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Week 052 - The Battle of Britain is a Bitch - WW2 - August 24 1940
Episode 34 - 8-24-2019
This week, the communists attack the Japanese in the Battle of 100 Regiments. Meanwhile, in Europe, the Battle of Britain enters phase three with the Luftwaffe actively targeting British airfields.
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Week 051 - Il Duce Kicks Churchill Where it Hurts - The British Lose Somaliland - WW2 - August 17 1940
Episode 33 - 8-17-2019
As the Battle of Britain reaches not seen before levels of intensity, one of the British colonies is lost to the Italians.
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Week 050 - Hail Mussolini, Haile Selassie's Usurper - The War in Somaliland - WW2 - August 10 1940
Episode 32 - 8-10-2019
This week, the war spreads to Africa, when the Italians invade the British Colony of British Somaliland. While this might seem trivial, it might have tremendous consequences on the remainder of the war.
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Week 049 - The Hippo vs. the Bulldog - The Battle of Britain Heats Up - WW2 - August 3 1940
Episode 31 - 8-03-2019
As the Kanalkampf comes to a close, the Battle of Britain heats up. Hitler wants Britain out of the war. But before the Germans can invade Britain, it will have to deal with the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy.
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Week 048 - No Deal... Herr Hitler! - The Battle of Britain Begins - WW2 - July 27 1940
Episode 30 - 7-27-2019
Hitler searches for ways to force Britain out of the war, but the British sit safely behind their cliffs, their channel and their Royal Navy. Engaging the navy and invading Britain would require a major air-superiority. As a result, the Germans plan to knock the British out of the skies. This is the Battle of Britain.
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Week 047 - Good People on Both Sides? - Hitler's Peace Offer to the Allies - WW2 - July 20 1940
Episode 29 - 7-20-2019
Peace seems to slowly return to the European mainland, but not for long, as the Germans move their airplanes to the French coast to Battle Britain in the skies while they make invasion plans, and the Soviets are entering the Baltics after 'elections' invited them to.
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Week 046 - The Dictator of France - The Rise of Philippe Pétain - WW2 - 046 - July 13 1940
Episode 28 - 7-13-2019
The Germans and the French in Vichy consolidate their newly acquired power as the British deal with the remnants of the French navy. The Battle of Britain begins with fighting above the English Channel, a battle with great consequences for the future of Europe.
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Week 045 - Do the Brits hate the French?! - The Bombing of Mers-el-Kébir - WW2 - July 6 1940
Episode 27 - 7-06-2019
The repercussions of the fall of France are not yet seen in full. But this week Britain makes it clear it isn't about to give up, even if it will mean some really hard decisions.
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Week 044 - Hitler ❤️Paris - German Victory in France - WW2 - June 29 1940
Episode 26 - 6-29-2019
Hitler goes to Paris, while Stalin occupies more territory... but something is on Stalin's mind. News of the sudden success of the Wehrmacht in the West is not what he had hoped for. Churchill also looks to the West for help while a German invasion of the British Isles seems imminent. Far East the Japanese are on the advance.
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Week 043 - Nazi Europe?! - The Fall of France - WW2 - June 22 1940
Episode 25 - 6-22-2019
While the fighting subsides in much of France, the Italians invade in the south, while tension continues to grow in the Baltic states as the Red Army increases its presence and the USSR makes plans for coups.
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Week 042 - Britain Votes to Leave - WW2 - June 15 1940
Episode 24 - 6-15-2019
The fighting in France isn't over, not even when Paris falls, as the Germans advance and Italy joins the fight. But the Brits now have their back to yet another ocean and see no option but out. Further east Stalin uses the chaos in the West as cover to start moving in on his neighbours.
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Week 041 - Will Britain Remain?! - WW2 - June 8 1940
Episode 23 - 6-08-2019
As the battle for France is still raging but looks like a ringing victory for Nazi Germany, and the encircled troops in Dunkirk have been evacuated, will Great Britain remain in the war? If so will British forces remain in continental Europe? In fact will Great Britain even be able to remain an independent nation, or also fall to the Nazis?
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Week 040 - The First Brexit? - The Dunkirk Evacuation - WW2 - June 1 1940
Episode 22 - 6-01-2019
When the Germans Panzers move north from Calais, the British Expeditionary Force and France's soldiers still fighting in Belgium and Northern France are trapped between a numerically superior German army. A big operation code-named 'Dynamo' is set up to evacuate as many as possible from Dunkirk.
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Week 039 - The Allied Clusterf**k - The Battle of France - WW2 - May 25 1940
Episode 21 - 5-25-2019
While the massive invasion of the Benelux countries and France was going down last week, things were also developing on the fronts in Norway and China. But this week, the German beast is let loose. After breaking through its cage at Sedan last week, nothing seems strong enough to block its way to the English Channel. And if one thing becomes clear, it is that the Allied command structure and the way they communicate is one big smoking mess...
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Week 038 - Blitzkrieg in the West - The Invasion of France - WW2 - May 18 1940
Episode 20 - 5-18-2019
The German invasion of Western Europe has been going for over a week now, and the Neutral and Allied countries are in disarray. The Netherlands, despite putting up fierce resistance on some occasions, faces overwhelming powers while Belgium, France and the British feel the pressure from an organised and armoured assault from the Ardennes. And still, the German tanks, soldiers and aircraft are not all the Allies have to fear, as many of their losses are caused by their own command.
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Week 037 - Hitler Strikes in the West - The Invasion of the Benelux - WW2 - May 11 1940
Episode 19 - 5-11-2019
As the Allied troops in Central Norway are evacuated and the Norwegian troops there surrender to the Germans, the Allied position around Narvik is still quite strong. With the addition of roughly 5000 Polish soldiers, the French, British and Norwegian force will prove to be a formidable foe for the Germans up North. This week however, the war drastically changes as not three but four Neutral countries are invaded. The Phoney War is ultimately over.
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Week 036 - Retreat in Norway, Preparations in Western Europe - WW2 - May 4 1940
Episode 18 - 5-04-2019
Allied plans to take Trondheim in Norway to allow for larger reinforcements and even bigger aerial support to come in are disbanded as the troops approaching Trondheim are pulled back from Norway. While the Allied efforts in Norway lose force there, the Allied forces in Western Europe are prepared for a German invasion through the Benelux countries. The Japanese too are determined to continue their campaign in China, and send thousands more young men into the battlefields.
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Week 035 - Norway is Burning - WW2 - April 27 1940
Episode 17 - 4-27-2019
The Invasion and subsequent Battle of Norway has only just begun when the British decide to pull back. Poor planning and misfortune after misfortune harms the British campaign, which becomes very apparent this week while the fighting continues. Almost everywhere, except for in the far north, the Allied troops pull back under heavy German pressure.
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Week 034 - The Scramble For Norway - WW2 - April 20 1940
Episode 16 - 4-20-2019
The German Invasion of Norway is still very much in full swing. The German Wehrmacht is moving north from Oslo, where a Norwegian force is trying to halt them in anticipation of Allied reinforcements. The British do land in Norway, but don't necessarily rush to relief the Norwegian army. Meanwhile, Norwegian 'traitor' and 'failure' Vidkun Quisling rises to be the new leader of Norway – only to get rejected by Hitler again. Numerous powers are now trying to grab, restore or consolidate military or political power in Norway. It's a mess.
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Week 033 - The Invasion of Norway and Denmark - WW2 - April 13 1940
Episode 15 - 4-13-2019
This week, the Phoney War seems to come to an end when Germany invades Denmark and Norway. The Allies seek confrontation with the Germany in the hope to at least deny them full access to the Swedish Iron mines. Nevertheless, the Germans are prepared and have been planning this for weeks. It looks like it will cost a lot to put a stop to this.
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Week 032 - Germans and British make their way to the North - WW2 - April 6 1940
Episode 14 - 4-06-2019
While China gets a new government, or at least in the eyes of Japan, the British are trying to cope with the rationing of meat and dairy products by trying out some new recipes. More importantly, Germany seems to be very serious about invading Norway. However, the British also plan to move closer to Norway.
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Week 031 - Allies Plan to Hit the Nazis Where it Hurts - WW2 - March 30 1940
Episode 13 - 3-30-2019
Newly appointed French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud and his British counterpart Neville Chamberlain spend the week looking for ways to harm the Germans. Not just by targeting their direct opponent directly, but also by exploring the idea of expanding the war into much bigger territory. In the meantime, the French prepare for the expected invasion and the Allies are laying the foundations of what might one time become a weapon of mass destruction.
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Week 030 - Il Duce and der Führer Have a Date - The Axis War Plans - WW2 - March 23 1940
Episode 12 - 3-23-2019
French Prime Minister Daladier overplays his hand and is replaced after his vision regarding Scandinavia wasn't widely shared in the French parliament. Meanwhile, the French and British in France are preparing for a German attack. If Hitler gets it his way, they will also have to prepare for an attack in the south as Hitler tries to persuade Mussolini to join his invasion.
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Week 029 - The Soviets Finish a Costly Winter War - WW2 - March 16 1940
Episode 11 - 3-16-2019
The Winter War is over. The Allies tried to stall the Finns for as long as possible to justify their invasion of Norway, but the Finns have had it and don't trust the British and French to come to their aid. This week, the Finns sign a peace agreement with the Soviet in Moscow.
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Week 028 - Finnish Winter is Almost Over - WW2 - March 9 1940
Episode 10 - 3-09-2019
The French promise to send troops to aid Finland, though the majority is planned to go to Norway or Sweden. In return, the Finns postpone their peace talks with the Soviets. It is at that moment that the Finns realize that the French are playing tricks and the Soviets are not to be messed with. It's deal or no deal, and they need to decide quick.
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Week 027 - Hitler Plans His New Wars - Fall Gelb - WW2 - March 2 1940
Episode 9 - 3-02-2019
The German plans for the invasion of Western Europe start taking shape. Mansteins plan is innovative, bold and controversial, but Hitler likes it. If everything goes according to his plan, the Germans will be celebrating their victory in Paris come spring.
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Week 026 - Manstein Makes a Plan and Hitler has a Man Crush - WW2 - February 23 1940
Episode 8 - 2-23-2019
German Genral Erich von Manstein has a cunning plan. And as it happens, it's just how Hitler likes it. This week, the German war plans change quite drastically. In the meantime, the Soviet Red Army continues it push through the Finnish Mannerheim line, except for a stubborrn Finnish pocket of resistance at Taipale.
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Week 025 - Finland’s Desperate Fight - WW2 - February 16 1940
Episode 7 - 2-16-2019
After more than a week of preliminary bombardments and attacks, the Red Army finally attacks the Finnish defensive positions on the Karelian Isthmus en masse. They throw thousands of troops at the Finns at the entire width of their lines, even exceeding them. The Finns defend the best as they can, but their winning streak seems to come to an end.
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Week 024 - Stalemate in China, Bombs over Finland - WW2 - February 9 1940
Episode 6 - 2-09-2019
While the Winter War rages on in Finland, Japan is confronted with a dilemma. Keep fighting the Chinese and face huge problems feeding the populace in Japan and their newly conquered territories or withdraw and face your own populace to whom you've promised a glorious victory.
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Week 023 - The Soviet Hammer Strikes Hard at Finland - WW2 - February 2 1940
Episode 5 - 2-02-2019
The Soviet forces revive their winter offensive this week. More men, more tanks and more artillery are brought in to try to force a breakthrough in the Finnish lines. Meanwhile, Churchill encounters resistance to his plan to cut of the German iron trade with Sweden.
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Week 022 - The Enigma of Germany's Wartime Economy - WW2 - January 26 1940
Episode 4 - 1-26-2019
his week shows the Allies first attempts to break the German Enigma code. Meanwhile, the German war economy shows some flaws and the Soviets are massing artillery in an effort to break the Finnish defences. As the Winter War rolls on the only help the Finns are getting are from volunteers. The Western Allies still have their thoughts on Norway, little do they know that the Phoney War almost ends this week...
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Week 021 - Swedes not Sweden to Finland's Rescue - WW2 - January 19 1940
Episode 3 - 1-19-2019
As the Winter War rolls on the only help the Finns are getting are from volunteers. The Western Allies still have their thoughts on Norway, little do they know that the Phoney War almost ends this week...
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Week 020 - The Red Army Regroups to Crush Finland - WW2 - January 12 1940
Episode 2 - 1-12-2019
After the chaotic invasion and catastrophic losses of the first weeks of the Winter War, the Soviet Army has learnt their lesson. Further west the Wehrmacht is ready to move, as long as the skies stay clear.
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Week 019 - The Finns Strike Again and Japan Strikes Back - WW2 - January 5 1940
Episode 1 - 1-05-2019
In Finland the invading Red Army suffers catastrophic casualties, while in China the Nationalists are divided as Japan uses diplomacy to strike back.
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WW II year 1939Week 018 - Stalin’s Unexpected Bedfellows - Soviet Relations in East Asia - WW2 - 29 December 1939
Episode 18 - 12-29-2018
The Chinese Nationalists under command of Chiang Kai Shek is desperately looking to make new or restore old, allies to aid them in their fight against the Japanese. Meanwhile, the Soviets are still struggling to turn the Winter War against the Finnish in their favor.
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Week 017 - Trouble in China - WW2 - 22 December 1939
Episode 17 - 12-22-2018
While the Winter War continues with a Soviet armoured attack at Summa and the Lähde Road and the British attack the Germans from the skies in the first official aerial battle of World War Two, there's trouble in China. Chiang Kai Shek is looking for ways to gain a new advantage on the Japanese.
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Week 016 - Perkele! Finland Strikes Back - WW2 - 15 December 1939
Episode 16 - 12-15-2018
In the second week of the Winter War, during multiple counteroffensives, including the famous Sausage War, the Finnish Defence Forces dash any hopes of a quick victory that the Red Army and Stalin might have had.
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Week 015 - The Invasion of Finland - WW2 - 8 December 1939
Episode 15 - 12-08-2018
When the Red Army invades Finland they get a cold reception and a pretty nasty surprise. It looks like team Stalin might just be skating on some very thin ice.
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Week 014 - The Winter War - WW2 - December 1, 1939
Episode 14 - 12-01-2018
On the last day of November 1939 the Red Army of the USSR invades Finland and the Winter War begins.
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Week 013 - Will the Kriegsmarine Rule the Waves? - WW2 - 24 November, 1939
Episode 13 - 11-24-2018
The European Allies seek a countermeasure to the mysterious German mines, in China the Japanese advance, and in Poland it is the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Week 012 - The Mysterious Threat to the Royal Navy - Magnetic Mines - WW2 - 17 November, 1939
Episode 12 - 11-17-2018
While the Finnish and the Soviets seem to be moving ever closer to war, the Royal Navy is losing ships at a frightening rate to an explosive threat not yet understood.
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Week 011 - Hitler Almost Killed - WW2 - 10 November, 1939
Episode 11 - 11-10-2018
As Hitler drives for a fast invasion he faces covert and open resistance, even an assassination attempt. In the background British and German agents and double agents play a game of betrayal and counter-betrayal.
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Week 010 - Molotov's Heel on Finland and the Phoney War - WW2 - 3 November, 1939
Episode 10 - 11-03-2018
Ten weeks into World War Two, and the Allied ground forces are bored in France. In North-Eastern Europe, Poland's suffering has no end and Finland is in the crosshairs of the USSR.
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Week 009 - Stalin's Murderous Adventures - Occupation of Poland - WW2 - October 27, 1939
Episode 9 - 10-27-2018
The persecution, incarceration, enslavement and murder of the Polish people in occupied Poland is driven by ideological hatred for both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, but it's also a personal matter for Joseph Stalin.
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Week 008 - The Submarine War - WW2 - October 20, 1939
Episode 8 - 10-20-2018
For the men in the navies of the warring nations in Europe, there was nothing phony about WW2 in October 1939 - mortal danger was immediately under the cold surface at the receiving end of a torpedo or a depth charge...
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Week 007 - The Baltic in Stalin's Squeeze - WW2 - 13 October, 1939
Episode 7 - 10-13-2018
While the Third Reich and USSR consolidate their Polish conquest, their leaders are wary of each other but turn the attention to the next prize. Stalin moves to the North and Hitler pushes for an attack in the West.
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Week 006 - Poland Falls and China Rises - WW2 - October 6, 1939
Episode 6 - 10-06-2018
In the West, the sun sets on Poland as the last forces surrender, but her defenders are already regrouping abroad. In the East, the sun rises on China as Japan meets yet another defeat.
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Week 005 - Poland is Crushed - WW2 - 29 September, 193
Episode 5 - 9-29-2018
Facing two enemies at once, Poland finds itself in a crushing vice after less than a month of war and the Polish forces must flee their own country to live to fight another day.
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Week 004 - The Russians are Coming! - The Soviet Invasion of Poland - WW2 -September 22, 1939
Episode 4 - 9-22-2018
When the USSR crushes the plans of the Allies for Poland and the Japanese plans in China in the same week, it is Germany that benefits.
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Week 003 - Poland on Her Own - WW2 - September 15, 1939
Episode 3 - 9-15-2018
When the Wehrmacht and the SS continue devastating Poland and her people in the first weeks of September, her last chance is her western allies.
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Week 002 - World War Two Begins - WW2 - September 8, 1939
Episode 2 - 9-08-2018
The German-Polish war is the match that ignites the flames that finally burn British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement efforts to the ground.
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Week 001 -The Polish-German War - WW2 - September 1, 1939
Episode 1 - 9-01-2018
When Germany invades Poland on September 1 1939, the world is already at the brink of a new world war…
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