The battle of Crecy in 1346 is when the English first establish themselves as a force to be reckoned with. Isolated on their island for centuries, they come to France and defeat the previously unbeatable French. The English longbow reigns supreme as the arrogant French nobility decide to charge into a pit of mud and blood.
War is nothing but a game of logistics and numbers and the U.S. most definitely won that game. 300,000 planes, 70,000 tanks, 100 aircraft carriers and that is just the U.S.! I also dispel the myth that Germany or Japan could have ever won the war and take a look at the horse-drawn German war machine.Links:https://ww2-weapons.com/u-s-arms-production/ (U.S. Production chart)http://cdm16635.contentdm.oclc.o... (Link to the USBRL Report on Tank casualties)
The Israeli Air Force during the Arab-Israeli War was equipped with terrible WWII-surplus German fighter planes. However, the pilots that flew for Squadron 101 outmatched the Egyptian pilots and as a result defeated the Egyptians in every single engagement with a Spitfire. By 1967, Israel has the greatest Air Force in the Middle East and they used it to deadly effect during the Six-Day War.
Napoleon, the living embodiment of the Enlightenment, embarks on a campaign to destroy the Third Coalition. What follows is a battle of unparalleled genius even by Napoleonic standards that proves the superiority of the Corps system and the Enlightenment.
Otto Skorzeny is a true to life James Bond villain. He has the face scar, the nazi gold, and the world domination group that he ran called the spider. On top of that, he was called the most dangerous man in Europe for the majority of his life. Host: Samuel Quesada
Mad Jack Churchill stormed the beach of Salerno with a sword, played bagpipes while under mortar fire, and killed a German Officer with a longbow. Oh and he was also a newspaper editor, actor, model, world champion bagpipe player, and world champion archer. His life is the stuff of legend.Host: Samuel Quesada
The truly epic battle of Siget where a group of soldiers outnumbered 30:1 ended up defeated the menacing Ottoman Army and delaying the attack on Vienna by a century. The battle ends with a charge onto a narrow bridge where the Ottomans lie in wait.
On this episode, we talk about the Korean War and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir where Marines were surrounded on a frozen lake and broke their way out of encirclement all while the temperature drops to 70 degrees below zero.
Today, we talk about the French Indochina war lasting from 1945-1954. It is the reason the U.S. got involved in Vietnam. There are epic stories of Paratroopers, Last Stands, and jungle warfare.
The French Foreign Legion had a heroic last stand at the Battle of Camaron (1863) and British Sikh Troops held off 10,000 Afghan Warriors in an epic mountain last stand.