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Black Thursday 1943 and Crossing The Volturno

Photo: U.S. Army trucks stranded in the rising floodwaters of the Volturno River, which surged 12 feet in four hours. (Photo by Lt. Kieft, 163rd Signal Photo Co., Public Domain).

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Goalhanger

9 Oct, 2023

WW2 Pod We Have Ways

56 min

Fighting Doctrine

Leadership

USAAF (United States Army Air Forces)

U.S. Army

Fifth U.S. Army

Strategic Air Campaign

Italian Campaign

Battle of Monte Cassino

Al Murray and James Holland turn back the clocks to investigate two seismic events of the Second World War that happened 80 years ago this week. They first discuss the Fifth Army’s crossing of the River Volturno in Italy, drawing on eye-witness accounts, and then the disastrous second bombing of Schweinfurt on 14 October 1943 by the US Eighth Air Force that became known as Black Thursday.

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Meet the Speakers

James Holland

Historian, writer, and podcaster, specialises in World War II and hosts "We Have Ways" podcast.

Al Murray

Al Murray, comedian, writer, and historian, co-hosts the WWII podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk and writes on

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