British Band Of Brothers: Disaster At Berjou (Part 8)
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Lieutenant F Galp in C Squadron Sherwood Rangers BLA. Fifteenth of the eighth, forty four. My darling Jews. Thanks, dear, for the really grand letter I received last night. You were in a really chatty mood when you wrote it, darling. And you seem nice and happy. I'm afraid that my letters may be really poor just now, for I'm really busy at the time of writing, dear. But I guess as long as you get a note. Telling you I love you, dear, you won't grumble. If and when we get a quiet spell again, you can be sure that I will settle down and To write real letters again. You talk about having photos taken, dear. Well, yesterday I had it taken again in my tank. A more or less rear view with some PBI near me. So you may see it, darling.
You ask which is my favourite photo. Well, dear, I haven't really got a favourite, for I love them all. Well, dear, I have to close now. Excuse scrappiness of this letter. So Cheerio Oh my love as always, loss of love and kisses. And that was a letter by Lieutenant Frank Galvin, written on the fifteenth of August nineteen forty four, the day before he goes into action on Operation Blackwater, which we flagged up at the end of our last episode. Yes.
Welcome to We Have Ways of Make You Talk with Mia Murray and James Holland for episode two point four or eight of our Depending on which way you look at it. Depending on which way you look at it, our Band of Brothers
series. Show at Rangers, they finally got to Hamburg.
Yeah. Episode uh yes. So about the Noiro, Operation Blackwater, the Noir O and in the last episode we looked at Operation uh Blue Coat, which was the uh strawberry jam in the uh Allies just Victoria Sponge and Cream. So
I just felt that just jam on its own wasn't quite enough. It sort of underplayed the jam. Yes.
And core of the the cream. The cream. There we go, right? It all it all works out. That essentially these are this series of colossal cracks on the German line, which have caused the German line to fall apart. And this means that in France, the broader picture is General Patton's Third Army, he is now in Brittany. He has arrived after being on the bench, basically. Yep. He's arrived. He's now broken out into Brittany. And it does This incredible breakout. Does this have to be
sodium off package? But
but it I mean if you like lots of if you like arrows on maps, he's doing extremely well. Um the actual issue for the Germans here is they are in great risk of great danger of being encircled. Um they've been pushed into southern Normandy. They're under tremendous pressure from all angles. So what do you do? You order a counterattack. Hang on a minute. Um did you just suggest one of the stupidest things anyone could possibly have suggested in all of military history? Oh, it's here this idea. Oh right, of course. Oh, there we go. Okay, fine, fair enough. He's the greatest commander ever. He's the greatest commander. He's struck by genius here, and he orders a thing called Operation Lutic Liege. And that's the idea of a western facing counterpunch towards Avronch.
Then what will happen is we'll split them in two and and we'll win. And you will win. And oh by the way, it's gonna be a thousand fighter planes.
And a thousand fighter planes. And my Fuhrer, well, what will we do with this? How are we gonna do this? You'll use all of your reserves, but so Cheer
Germanville
and so on.
Yeah.
And the problem with this, of course, is that Hitler's conception of the forces disposal is always basically it's back of and he doesn't smoke. It's back of a vegetarian sausage package package Calculation. Right. Right. He's got out his Linda McCartney sausage pack and he's written Written the calculations on them. He when he sees a division on his inventory, he thinks it's in full bloom, right? But Blue Coat has resulted in the destruction of.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–5:12
2
What does Lieutenant Frank Galvin’s August 15, 1944 letter reveal about the upcoming Operation Blackwater?
5:12–40:13
3
How did Stanley Christofferson plan the reconnaissance of the Noiro crossing point for the Berjou assault?
40:13–48:55
4
What challenges did Stan Perry’s tank face while crossing the Noiro and how did the battle unfold?
48:55–50:24