John Frost

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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

Well, yeah, but but they've also they've taken this this huge airfield complex around Foggia, which is on the Adriatic side, it's on the eastern side. matched

And this is as you you you you come up past Brindisi, past Bari, and and and the lots of mountains everywhere, then suddenly there's this weird, flat as a board plane, and you can see the sort of blue distant mountains all around them. matched

But in this huge plane, which must sort of, you know, be kind of twenty-five miles by matched

30, that kind of sort of or maybe 20 by 20, something like that. matched

There's all these opportunities to have an airfields. matched

This is the one of the prime, if not the prime, objective of getting in, going into Italy in the first place. matched

Is so you can further tighten the noose around Nazi Germany with strategic bombers. matched

So you've got your strategic bombers operating from East Anglia and from the eastern side of Britain, bomber command and the and the US 8th Air Force. matched

And now you're going to create the 50. matched

Air Force, which is going to operate out of out of these Fogger airfield complexes in about two-thirds of the way down the leg of Italy on the eastern side. matched

So they've got that on the 27th of September. matched

That's a massive, massive tick. matched

And now they're pushing on beyond that. matched

And they've captured the town of Termile, which has been a difficult, hard fight, which has also involved the SAS and the and and commandos and so on. matched

And then they pushed up and they've got past the Trino, and now the matched

Next big obstacle that they've got to get across is the Sangro. matched

And the Sangro is going to be a tough one because. matched

It is the main Bernhard Stroke Gustav line. matched

It is the main line of defense, the MLD that the uh that the that the Germans have. matched

And beyond that is Pescara, and that is the objective. matched

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