James Holland

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22,142 appearances 48 recordings 7 series first heard May 2025 last heard 2d ago

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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk · Stalingrad Of The Adriatic: The Sangro (Part 1) · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

Lots it's going to be lots of infantry operating with armour, huge, great big firepower effort, artillery, tactical air forces. voice-verified

So the the Allied leaning in with your strengths, the whole thing. voice-verified

Monty also offers a diversion, a feint, doesn't he? voice-verified

So he's sending a diversionary force to attack Castel de Sangro in the upper Sangro Valley. voice-verified

And this is voice-verified

Third Brigade of the uh Canadian Division, which up to that point hasn't had really much to do. voice-verified

A fairly quiet time. voice-verified

And the Sangro Valley in this part of the world is i it's a a lush green bowl s entirely surrounded by mountains pretty much. voice-verified

River snakes its way to the northeast, towards the coast, via the through the interlocking spurs of yet m more peaks. voice-verified

It sounds quite defendable to me. voice-verified

Um Castel Castel de Sangre itself is dominated by a thousand foot high, very steep hill on which is perched a m ruined medieval castle and chapel, and it's marked on the Canadian maps as point one thousand and nine. voice-verified

No. voice-verified

No, no, no. voice-verified

But but but this is this is the case with so much of the Italian landscape. voice-verified

So what's gonna happen? voice-verified

Well, defending it are uh men of Oberst Ludwig Heilmann's third Fausche Jaeger Regiment, who um they were he was a busy bee in Sicily, wasn't he? voice-verified

Obviously Fauschimieger come with a sort of whiff of wiff whiff of a reputation of being uh of being flinty and they're gonna dig in and stick to it and make things hard for everybody. voice-verified

On the twenty third of November, isn't it? voice-verified

So after the planned start of the Sangro crossing. voice-verified

Planned start, yes. voice-verified

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