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

kind of company that's been cut to pieces that has to be replaced, you know, um and and so on. matched

Uh and of course, between all this rain and fighting, preparations are continuing for the main event, which needless to say hasn't happened when planned because of because of this rain. matched

And amongst those coming up to the front are the New Zealanders and the 24th Battalion. matched

So all the number the all the battalions are numbered, sort of 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. matched

28th is the Maorys, just purely Maori. matched

Um volunteers. matched

To a man. matched

But the 24th, they've landed at Taranto on the 9th of October. matched

They've undergone some training, played a lot of rugby, and then slowly work their way northwards. matched

And by the 14th of November, they're near Luchera, which is just at the northern side of the Foggia Plain. matched

And then on again, trundling north in trucks, over the mountain path. matched

Sitting in the back of the trucks under the canvas, looking out at the rain, and all the rest of it. matched

And also moving up are the 8th Indian Division, who are there to start the preliminary operations over the Sangro. matched

This is now we we've jumped ahead a little bit with the Castel de Sangro, but but this is back on the 19th of February. matched

And the attack was originally due to begin that night. matched

And uh Corporal Harry Wilson, who's the cypher clerk that we uh quoted at the start, his boss is called Captain Asquiff. matched

And Asquiff tells him, We're going a thousand yards southeast of Pallieta. matched

The latter part of the route is under fire. matched

And there's a sort of Asquiff always tells them bad news with enormous amounts of relish, which which Wilson and his fellows really, really. matched

You resent. matched

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