The Soldier's Voice
By Creators Obomedia
Categories: History, Society & Culture, Education
Dawn breaks over a beach, a ridge or a gray stretch of ocean, and somewhere a commander is reading an order that will decide who lives through the day. Every great battle of the Second World War began with a plan on each side and ended with something nobody had planned at all. What happened in between is where the real story lives.The Soldier's Voice tells one famous event of the Second World War in each long episode, from the first plans on both sides to the final shot. Battles, raids, sieges and naval fights unfold day by day and often hour by hour, with the real commanders, units, ships and numbers. The narration is clear and steady, fair to both sides, quick with a dry line about blunders and bad luck, and quiet when men die. Every episode closes with the toll, what the event changed and what came next.New episodes arrive every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Three times a week, you get the full story of another turning point of the war, told in detail. Follow The Soldier's Voice so you never miss the next battle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
14 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Iwo Jima: Thirty Six Days Inside a Volcano of Fire
In February nineteen forty five, Major General Schmidt lands seventy thousand Marines on eight square miles of volcanic rock defended by Lieutenant General Kuribayashi's twenty one thousand men buried deep in sixteen miles of tunnels. The airfields must be taken to protect B twenty nine crews and…
- The Dambusters: Bouncing Bombs, Sixty Feet Above a Black Lake
Wing Commander Gibson leads six hundred and seventeen Squadron's nineteen Lancasters against the Ruhr dams in the spring of nineteen forty three, carrying a weapon designer Barnes Wallis has never tested at operational altitude over real water at night. The Mohne and Eder dams hold the water…
- Taranto: Wooden Biplanes Crippled a Battle Fleet in One Night
Admiral Cunningham sends twenty one obsolete Swordfish biplanes against the Italian battle fleet sheltering at Taranto in November nineteen forty, while Ammiraglio Campioni's six battleships sit behind guns, nets and barrage balloons in a harbor his command considers safe. The outcome of a single…
- Pegasus Bridge: Gliders Crashed in the Dark Fifty Yards From the Enemy
Major Howard leads D Company, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, in a glider assault on two critical bridges over the Caen Canal and Orne River in the hours before the Normandy landings. The bridges must be taken intact or the entire eastern flank of Sword Beach will be open to German…
- St. Nazaire: They Rammed a Dock With a Ship Full of Explosives
In March nineteen forty two, Captain Ryder leads a small British force of one elderly destroyer and sixteen motor launches up the heavily defended Loire estuary toward the massive Normandie dry dock at Saint Nazaire. The dock is the only Atlantic facility capable of servicing the battleship…
- El Alamein: Half a Million Mines Between Montgomery and Rommel
General Montgomery opens the Second Battle of El Alamein on October twenty third, nineteen forty two, sending Eighth Army through half a million mines to break Panzerarmee Afrika's hold on Egypt. Field Marshal Rommel, absent ill when the guns open, races back to a front already starved of fuel and…
- Coral Sea: The Battle Where No Ship Ever Saw the Enemy
In May nineteen forty two, Rear Admiral Fletcher takes two American carriers into the Coral Sea to stop a Japanese amphibious assault on Port Moresby, the last barrier before Australia. Rear Admiral Takagi's two fleet carriers provide the invasion's cover, and the stakes leave neither commander…
- Iwo Jima: The Island Was Empty Until It Opened Fire
Major General Schmidt lands the Fifth Amphibious Corps on the black ash beaches of Iwo Jima in February nineteen forty five, facing a garrison of twenty one thousand men under Lieutenant General Kuribayashi, who has spent months building a defense designed to make every yard cost the Marines more…
- Taffy 3: Tiny Destroyers Charged the Largest Battleship Ever Built
Admiral Kurita's Center Force drives through San Bernardino Strait toward the crowded Leyte Gulf anchorage, threatening to shatter MacArthur's Philippine landings. Rear Admiral Sprague's Taffy Three, six unarmored escort carriers with their handful of small escorts, stands between Kurita's…
- Pearl Harbor: The Sunday Morning the Sky Exploded
Vice Admiral Nagumo leads the Kido Butai strike force toward Pearl Harbor on December seventh, nineteen forty one, seeking to destroy the US Pacific Fleet before America can challenge Japanese expansion across the Pacific. Admiral Kimmel commands a fleet caught in peacetime routine, its carriers…
- Omaha Beach: The Water Turned Red Before Nine in the Morning
On June sixth nineteen forty four, Major General Huebner's First Infantry Division and the Twenty Ninth Infantry Division assault a six mile stretch of fortified Norman coast defended by Generalleutnant Kraiss's three hundred fifty second Infantry Division, already in position on the bluffs before…
- Bismarck: A Biplane, One Torpedo, and the Death of a Monster
Admiral Lutjens leads the German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen into the North Atlantic in May nineteen forty one, and Admiral Tovey spreads the Royal Navy across an ocean to stop them. If Bismarck reaches the open sea, no single British ship can fight her alone and survive. The…
- Bastogne: Surrounded, Freezing, Outnumbered, and Their Answer Was "Nuts!"
In December nineteen forty four, three German armies drive through the Ardennes and encircle Brigadier General McAuliffe's one hundred first Airborne Division at the critical crossroads town of Bastogne. Eight German divisions press the perimeter while the garrison runs short of shells, winter…
- Midway: Six Minutes That Turned the Pacific Into a Graveyard
Admiral Nagumo's four carrier strike force moves against Midway atoll in June nineteen forty two, while Admiral Nimitz positions three American carriers in ambush northeast of the island. The entire Pacific balance rests on which side launches first and whose pilots find the fleet. The margin…
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