WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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How did the Sherwood Rangers recuperate after D-Day? Why were the Germans struggling in Normandy? What were the physical and mental demands on tank commanders?
Join Jim and Al for part 5 as they continue the epic story of the Sherwood Rangers, Britain’s own ‘Band Of Brothers’.
0:00 The Sherwood Rangers return to battle in Normandy
1:06 How a British armoured regiment actually worked
13:51 B Squadron advances into Rauray – an entire tank troop is wiped out
23:09 How the Allies were grinding down the German army in Normandy
30:05 Exhaustion, sleep and life behind the front line
39:05 Preparing for Operation Maori II and another battle
47:45 The assault on Hottot begins
56:09 The terrible cost of Hottot – and the lessons learned
1:06:00 Surviving a burning Sherman and training crews to escape
1:15:01 Goodwood, Cobra and the bigger battle for Normandy
1:21:03 Operation Bluecoat – the Sherwood Rangers’ biggest operation yet
1:29:58 Bluecoat begins: tanks and infantry enter the bocage
1:45:02 A Jagdpanther appears on the ridge
1:54:00 Fighting through Jurques
2:10:02 The Sherwood Rangers push deeper into the German lines
2:19:59 Ondefontaine, church towers and German booby traps
2:30:01 The German army begins to collapse towards the Falaise Pocket
2:34:56 Crossing the Noireau – Stan Perry leads the way
2:45:04 Frank Galvin and his crew are killed
2:50:03 The brutal aftermath of the battle
2:54:59 Retracing Galvin’s final battle decades later
3:04:39 A Sherwood Rangers Sherman returns to the battlefield
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