GeneralsOfWWII

🚨New episode🚨- General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell has arrived on the battlefield! We dive into the fascinating and controversial career of General Stilwell. 🇺🇸⚔️ Special guest Quin Cho will explore Stilwell's remarkable military career. open.spotify.com/episode/7MQLXp…

The sights & sounds of urban warfare in Aachen during World War II.

U.S. sailors enjoy a swim beside an aircraft carrier during a Navy tradition known as a swim call. To protect the crew, torpedo nets were lowered into the water to create a safe swimming area and help keep sharks away. Popular during World War II, swim calls gave sailors a chance to relax far from shore. Lookouts and armed shark-watch teams stood guard, and the swim would end immediately if any large marine life was spotted nearby. See more: bit.ly/48qxBv7

Before the F-22. Before the MiG-29. Before the F-16... There was the Messerschmitt Me 262. The world's first operational jet fighter. 🇩🇪⚡

In September 1942, 15 months after the start of Operation #Barbarossa, the #German army entered southern #Russia and especially #Stalingrad

25 years after 'Band of Brothers' captivated audiences around the world, the real story of the 101st Airborne lives on at The National WWII Museum. Explore the artifacts and stories behind Easy Company and the men who inspired the acclaimed miniseries: nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/b…

Coming soon.......German admiral and submarine commander Karl Dönitz. #germannavy #submarine #SubmarineWarfare #Donitz #germanhistory #vodcast

MacArthur gets his way. At a meeting with Roosevelt today in 1944 in Hawaii, the decision is made to invade the Philippines, allowing MacArthur to seek redemption.

Omaha beach, Normandy, France, June 6 1944. The black dots are bodies, the water is stained with blood.

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🚨 New episode 🚨- Queen Marie Antoinette has arrived at the party! Special guest Charles Mackay will explore the remarkable life of Marie Antoinette—from her childhood as an Austrian archduchess to her marriage to King Louis XVI, her years as Queen of France, and her tragic downfall during the French Revolution. Discover the truth behind the myths, the political pressures she faced at the Palace of Versailles, her attempts to save the monarchy, her imprisonment, and her execution by guillotine in 1793. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi… #frenchhistory #marieantoinette #queens #frenchrevolution #austria

May 18, 1942 - TIME MAGAZINE Admiral Nimitz, Commander in the Pacific cover. #WW2 #WWII

60-second book📚review - “The Generals” by Thomas E. Ricks. #history #WWII #ww2history #thegenerals #bookreview

Here’s a Friday night lineup that can’t miss. 😎

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@GeneralsofWWII I can I say all three? If I had to choose probably Rommel, because Rommel can be loved or hated. Depending on the person.

Sneak peek 👀 of our next 3 episodes: Ep 27 - General Joe "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell Ep 28 - Admiral Dönitz Ep 29 - Field Marshal Rommel Which one is most intriguing?? #ww2history #ww2 #Stilwell #Donitz #germanarmy #vodcast

Intense footage from the Battle of Stalingrad

22 July 1943: During World War II, U.S. forces under General George Patton capture Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Patton was given permission to take Palermo, but the order was rescinded. He claimed the message was garbled and took the city anyway. #WW2 #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3hgHjUS

Ask most people to name the best British general of World War Two and they will say Montgomery. Ask the historians who study it closely and a lot of them will quietly tell you the real answer is a man most people have never heard of. His name was William Slim, and his soldiers just called him Uncle Bill. Slim was not born into any of it. No fortune, no famous family, no smooth path through the elite schools that produced most British generals. He was a working class kid who had been a teacher and a clerk, and he only slipped into the army through a technicality before the First World War. He got shot up at Gallipoli, wounded again in the Middle East, and clawed his way up the ranks the hard way, on merit, one rung at a time. By 1942 he was handed one of the worst jobs in the entire war. The Japanese had smashed the British in Burma, and Slim was put in charge of the retreat. It became the longest fighting withdrawal in British military history, close to a thousand miles back to the border of India, through jungle and mountains, hounded the whole way. Most commanders are remembered for the battles they win. Slim first had to prove himself by saving a beaten army from being wiped out, and he brought it home still fighting. Then he did the thing that should make him a household name. He took that broken, sick, forgotten army, an incredible mix of British, Indian, African, and Gurkha soldiers, and he rebuilt it from the ground up. He got a grip on the malaria that was dropping more men than bullets. He fixed the food, the training, the supply, and above all the morale. He walked among the troops constantly, talked to them like human beings, and made them believe again. They started calling themselves the Forgotten Army, half proud and half bitter, because the war in Europe got all the headlines while they bled in the jungle. In 1944 the Japanese threw everything into a massive invasion of India, aimed at Imphal and Kohima. Slim let them come, stretched their supply lines to breaking, and then broke them. The fighting at Kohima was so brutal it has been called the Stalingrad of the East, with men grenading each other across a district commissioner's tennis court. When it was over, the Japanese had suffered the single greatest defeat their army had ever endured on land. Tens of thousands of them never went home. And Slim was not finished. In 1945 he pulled off a masterpiece of deception, faked out the Japanese about where he would cross the Irrawaddy river, seized the town of Meiktila and cut the enemy in half, then drove all the way to Rangoon and finished the reconquest of Burma. He had taken the most humiliating defeat in British Far Eastern history and turned it completely inside out. He literally titled his memoir Defeat into Victory, and it is still considered one of the finest books a soldier has ever written. What his men remembered was not the strategy. It was that he never lied to them, never wasted them, and never forgot they were people. In a war full of commanders who spent lives cheaply and hungered for glory, Uncle Bill did the opposite, and they loved him for it. He ended his life as a viscount and the Governor General of Australia, but the title that mattered was the one his soldiers gave him. Montgomery got the fame. Slim got the respect of the people who actually knew.

🚨New episode🚨- General Mark Clark has arrived on the battlefield! He was one of America's most controversial and accomplished commanders of WWII. In this episode, special guest Bill Nance will explore Clark's military career. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gen…