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Week 247 - The Fall of Monte Cassino - WW2 - May 20, 1944

In Italy, the Allies finally overcome Monte Cassino and break through the Gustav Line; in Burma Merrill's Marauders surprise the Japanese and take Myitkyina Airfield; in China, it's the Japanese who are playing offense, as Operation Ichi Go and the siege of Luoyang continue. That's the field action, but there's big planning behind the scenes for major June offensives going on by both the Western Allies and the Soviets. Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Or join the TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv/signup/ Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost Between 2 Wars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG Follow WW2 Day by Day on Instagram: @ww2_day_by_day Follow TimeGhost History on Instagram: @timeghosthistory Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory/ Hosted by: Indy Neidell Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson Creative Producer: Marek Kamiński Community Management: Ian Sowden Written by: Indy Neidell Research by: Indy Neidell Map animations by: Daniel Weiss Map research by: Sietse Kenter Edited by: Miki Cackowski Artwork and color grading by: Mikołaj Uchman Sound design by: Marek Kamiński Colorizations by: Mikołaj Uchman Election1960 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Albert_Kesselring#/media/File:AlbertKesselringColor.png Adrien Fillon - https://www.instagram.com/adrien.colorisation Source literature list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - https://www.screenocean.com Image sources: IWM WPN 155, NAT 1559, TR 1759, NA 18394, MWY 23, TR 1037 Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe Bundesarchiv Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound: Fabien Tell - Weapon of Choice Fabien Tell - Leave It All Here Jo Wandrini - Dragon King Jon Bjork - Shrouded in Conspiracy Philip Ayers - The Unexplored Yi Nantiro - Watchman Edward Karl Hanson - Spellbound Johan Hynynen - Dark Beginning A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Comments

Anonymous

Is that Corporal Wojtek?! Indeed it is!

Anonymous

Ah good old Wojtek

Anonymous

You know, this war is considerably less glorious than I was led to believe in history channel documentaries of the 90s.

Anonymous

Sorry to be off topic but I don't know how else to communicate with the WW2 team. Last week I made a one-of donation to help finance the D-Day special. That came with a poster and tie. I'm at the declutter stage of life and don't need more stuff. So please give them to someone else. You sent me an email address but my ISP classed it as invalid and I couldn't reply. Thanks. Also, the title of this reads Monte Casino. Shouldn't that be Cassino?

Anonymous

With D-day looming on the horizon I'm hoping to see coverage on the spies running deception operations to fool the Germans on where the landings will be. In particular I'm interested in the story of Juan Pujol Garcia, codenamed GARBO, I've read a bit about him on Wikipedia and while his story isn't action packed, I find it very entertaining. Also as a Canadian I am would love to see a Spies and Ties episode on William Stephenson, codenamed Intrepid, a Canadian spymaster and acquaintance of Ian Fleming, who apparently once wrote "James Bond is a highly romanticised version of a true spy. The real thing is... William Stephenson" (this qoute is abbreviated from Iam Flemings foreward in Room 3603 by H. Montgomery Hyde).

Anonymous

todays episode? No news from youtube, this site or the forum.

Anonymous

I hope no one is hurt.

Anonymous

I guess no early episode this week either?

TimeGhostHistory

Working on getting it out publicly as soon as possible. It's very intense here with the finishing touches for D-Day! Hope to be back on track for everyone as soon as possible.

Anonymous

Thanks, I figured that is what is was but the post above mine got me worried. I also keep wanting to get my post in the comment sections in early on Mark Clark and the fall of Rome. I'm hoping you guys don't go the old traditionalist route of covering the fall of Rome. I keep trying to post that Mark Clark is directly ordered by George Marshall the top US officer in WW2 to take Rome. And British General Alexander (Clark's direct superior at the time) also gives Clark orders to take Rome as well. But my posts about this keep getting buried in the last few weeks. Clark takes WAY to much heat for capturing Rome when in reality it should be considered the correct move to make. Capturing anywhere from 5k-15k German troops doesn't do anything to greatly end the war. While the fall of the first Axis capital city is a much bigger morale hit to the Axis forces. It also has to be remembered that the Italian campaign's job was never to push up through Italy, then the Alps and Austria into Germany. That would have taken WAY to many casualties pushing through North Italy and the Alps. The goal of the Italian campaign was always to occupy German forces in Italy so that they couldn't be used on the Eastern or Western fronts.

Anonymous

Please don't do the music with your episodes anymore. It was virtually impossible to follow Indys narrative in this weeks episode. If the d day special is like this weeks episode it will be ruined.