EARLY: The Battle of Peleliu

I’m looking forward to when Nick emerges from his tunnel and finally surrenders in 2025

Ben Yardley

I mean, it was only the trip the year after mine when a polar bear killed a guy. Probably one of the few places in the world where rifle possession is required out of settlements and thanks to the Nazis leaving a tonne of K98s in Norway ours did have a swastika on it, which was a little ominous

Cam

great idea but it won’t be little. It will be a tome. Think of the number of times the first wave have been assured “it will be like a Sunday stroll. The bombardment has turned them all into compost. Off you go, lads!”….

Deweycat

Rockall

My wife’s grandfather was wounded and captured at Anzio (he was a Canadian member of the First Special Service Force” aka the Devil’s Brigade). His wounds were severe but he was reasonably treated by German medical staff and then sent to a POW camp. He recounted things being sparse but decent until the last months of the war when the shortages became severe, e.g. no lime to use in the out houses, no soap, etc. he did receive the Red Cross parcels, whose contents depended on the nation of service, e.g. Americans received different packages than Canadians, Canadians different from Brits. The treatment of Russians, Poles or others was different of course.

Deweycat

I want somebody to make a little encyclopedia titled Woodchipper: A story about hubris and literally dying on a hill.

Grumpy Bowlart

One thing I have learned from this pod is that coral is a bitch.

Bored at Work

You’ll only wish you did.

Hammerthrust Von Sexron

I googled this Rupertus fella and found out he wrote the Rifleman’s Creed, thus inspiring 80% of the worst vet bro merchandise

Van Knopf

AND you won't get eaten by a polar bear.

Martin Belderson

The Reaper is just really bad at crane games

nughh

(And yes, Japanese soldiers did surrender - when they were confident that surrender would be accepted. So not to Australians or Yankees. Which i guess is a story about PoW camps. Or rather their absence...)

Jacob Vardy

Soviet camps weren't great. The Nazi invasion contributed to a low level famine. And PoW camps were fairly low in priority. A lot of German prisoners were just murdered. Other prisoners might be OK. From memory, Japanese prisoners from the border skirmishes had it fairly easy.

Jacob Vardy

The Garden State.

Hammerthrust Von Sexron

"New Jersey: Surprisingly Nice"

Jordan Y Clementi

I am fully on Team Liam for vacation spots and my wife also hates that part of my personality. Shitty remote places are where you go when you don't want to be bothered and you want to miss home by the end of the vacation. I'm petitioning to go to a monastery for our next trip.

Jordan Y Clementi

Off topic to the post, but maybe not to the podcast… In WWII, we know how horrible the POW were in German and Japan, but I’ve never heard anything about the conditions of war camps in other countries in the war. Are there any tales to be told?

Adam Harrison

People have the same reaction to my homeland New Jersey as well. You should visit sometime

Glad to know I have yet another comrade who will die on the hill that The Pacific is better than Band of Brothers in every single way imaginable.

jackson macpherson

I spent a month on Svalbard back in 2009 and it is probably the most awe inspiring place I've been to. Good pizza too.

Cam