Category: Podcasts
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The P-47 Thunderbolt and 362nd Fighter Group
In this episode Angus is looking at the P-47 Thunderbolt and the US 362nd Fighter Group. The P-47 was a fighter bomber and very much suited to a ground attack role, with it’s eight .50 cal machine guns and it could carry a bomb load of 2,500lbs or rockets. On top of that, it could…
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Alexander in Afghanistan
Alexander the Great invaded what is today Afghanistan in 330 BC as part of war against Persia. Comprising the easternmost satrapies of Persia, Afghanistan provided some challenging battles in his conquest of the remaining lands of Persia. In this episode of the Ancient Warfare Magazine Podcast the team discuss Alexander the Great in Afghanistan. It’s…
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The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
At the end of last year aviation historian Mathew Chapman sent Angus over his MA thesis, which is titled The Evolution of Professional Aviation Culture in Canada, 1939-45. In it he outlines the development of the British Commonwealth Air Training program in Canada, but the thesis goes on to discuss how veteran WWII pilots would dominate…
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WSS36 – New Year Revolutions
The band get back together to discuss the latest news and what Santa might have brought us for Christmas. Parting shots, in WSS106 discusses new years revolutions, Guy and Mark tell us about that and Jasper brings us upto date with the latest data pulled from the Great Wargames Survey. >>Download<< Links Ministry of Gentlemanly…
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2710 The Battle of the Standard, 1138. pt2
‘At the moment when the Galwegians were at their most hard pressed, it seems as if Prince Henry led his Battle in a charge (the detail is not in Richard of Hexham). Henry ‘hurled himself, fierce as a lion, upon the opposing wing.’ He put the English to flight on that wing (the English left)…
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Warriors on Wheels: Chariot Warfare in Antiquity
Until the arrival of the chariot, warfare had been an exclusively infantry-based affair. Its invention introduced a new dynamic to the battlefield that shaped warfare for two millennia. The team discuss Ancient Warfare Magazine XIII-4. >>Download<<
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The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941
We’re all familiar with the events on that day of ‘infamy’, the 7th December 1941. The Japanese launch their typhoon in the pacific with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Hours later they would invade Malaya; an operation that would outflank the British ‘fortress’ singapore. Japanese units would land on the Philippines and the conquest of…
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2709 The Battle of the Standard, 1138
‘King David I of Scotland invaded England in the summer of 1138 in support of his niece, the Empress Matilda, who was embroiled in a fight against her cousin, King Stephen (of Blois) for control of the English throne. This period of civil war, known as the Anarchy, raged in England from 1135 until 1153.…
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The Battle of the Peaks and Long Stop Hill
We’re in North Africa for this episode of the podcast. In late 1942 the Allies landed in Morocco and Algeria, this was operation Torch. With them landed elements of what would become First Army, comprising of British, French and American troops. It was commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Kenneth Anderson a dour capable, scotsman. First Army would…
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2708 The Macedonian Phalangite vs Persian Warrior
In August 334 BC, Alexander the Great invaded the Persian Empire and systematically set about its conquest. At the core of Alexander’s army were 10,000 members of the phalanx, the phalangites. Armed with a long pike and fighting in formations up to 16 ranks deep, these grizzled veterans were the mainstay of the Macedonian army.…