... but it's not all tragedy, in Feb 1944. If you want to hear two podcasters losing it completely, then this week's #Newsofthewar is for you.
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This early in 1944, there's a lot going to distract the enemy - on all sides. This week's #NewsoftheWar...
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News for the ages: when @AndyAitcheson and @rentaquill aren't doing Omar Bradley impressions, they're discussing the relentless march of time, verissimilitude, and this chap too. This week's #newsofthewar gets spicy.
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In the week's #NewsoftheWar, one of our hosts refers to this as an oblique relief view. The other says 'it's a bit like a ski map'. Which is hard to fault. Maps of the Week, folks... spot the landmarks, in February 1944.
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Early on in #NewsoftheWar, we agreed that a Photo of the Week was essential - EVEN ON A PODCAST - but this one was tricky to nail down in the description. Do you know what's happening here?
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🚨 In February 1944, what would *you* have discovered in #NewsoftheWar? Multiple invasion reports. Invasion stats. Germany's view on multilple reports of invasion stats.
Loose lips sink ships *BUT*... apparently, it's already in the newspapers! @merrynwalters.uk @andyaitch.bsky.social
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🚨... aaand Malta, of course. The only collective GC awarded during WWII, not without controversy. Read all about it - hear all about it - in this week's #NewsoftheWar.
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At this point, in this week's #NewsoftheWar special, if you don't have something in your eye ...
Whatever else is happening, it's the actions of men like Rev Herbert Pugh that give us a reality check. This. THIS, is courage
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Szabo is well known now, but many names are unknown to us *unless* we're looking at #NewsoftheWar. Private Benjamin Hardy GC, for his courage at No. 12 Prisoner of War Camp, Cowra. Outstanding gallantry, incredible courage.
Spoiler.: You'll need your handkerchiefs this week.
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It's not all doom and gloom in this week's #NewsoftheWar, it just feels like it. These were different times, and different news carried different views. Case in point - Violette Szabo, GC - posthumously awarded the George Cross.
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🚨 SPECIAL: In this week's #NewsoftheWar, it's the George Cross. Never before, was so much bravery and heroism packed into six columns wide.
Grab your hankies ... the King awaits ...
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And finally ... well. Speaks for herself, really. Putting the spotlight on astrology in this week's #NewsoftheWar.
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And while most can find Italy on the warmaps now, there's a bit of a debate about map of the week. This, believe it or not, is larger than the original. 1.5 inches wide, but full of insight if you were reading the #NewsoftheWar.
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... is this just the best picture of a PIAT, 1939 - 1945? It's mentioned in #NewsoftheWar, it's from Ortona: Private Edmund Arsenault of The West Nova Scotia Regiment aiming a PIAT anti-tank weapon from a slit trench near Ortona, Italy.
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Anyway. Movin' on. It's peculiar how, in the news, we formed so many different impressions of the men fighting for our liberty. Tedder, for one. Would *you* have referred to this man as - a gremlin?! It's all in the #NewsoftheWar, folks:
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🚨 It's here! It's the 23rd December 1943, and it's all kicking off in the #NewsoftheWar. Starting with the front page headlines that someone's sunk a five-square battleship. And if you get that reference, you're as old as one of our podcast hosts. @merrynwalters.uk @andyaitch.bsky.social
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Which brings us, in this episode, to our first - but probably not last - challenge: talking about racial segregation in the US and its military in 1943. #NewsoftheWar
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All right. It's the elephant in the room. How DO you pronounce Днепропетро́вск / Dnepropetrovsk?
We tried Neh-PROP-peh-trovsk, and then we moved on to look at more details on our map of the week.
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Okay, we know, what you're all tuning in for this week in #NewsoftheWar, is more monkey business.
The hidden story here, is a serious question of PSTD, and unrecognised trauma in animals during the war. (We almost lost that, in our telling of the story. ☹️)
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🚨New episode of #NewsoftheWar?! Yes please!
This week, the burning issue is, how d'you pronounce a short word like 'Foggia' ~ and if THAT doesn't give you an ear worm, then wait til you hear what else was happening on 28th September 1943...
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Our favourite Dictator of the Week. Bit controversial.
You should check it out in this week's #NewsoftheWar:
*Designs his own uniform
*Bit of a narcissist
*Got form
*LEGEND IN HIS OWN LUNCHBREAK
I mean, c'mon...
WHO IS THIS MAN
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Do you know the Bevin Boys? It's still only a proposal at this point, but it's already #NewsoftheWar. Young men being conscripted to work in the coal mines. Yikes.
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Phwoar. What a picture. Just look at those bonny, sturdy lasses of the Cullercoats in Northumberland.
**it says here*
Photo of the Week, people. Only in the #NewsoftheWar
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It's still January! There's more #NewsoftheWar!
We're in 1943. Acutally, it's July 20th - and guess what's happening in the headlines? Yep, that's right. Siiiiiicily.
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