I spoke with Paul Dickson about how the US Army rapidly prepared for WWII. This is the youtube version of a previously posted podcast episode.
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Blaž Torkar is an assistant professor of history at the Military Schools Centre of the Slovenian Armed forces. He researches the history of intelligence services, Allied military missions in Yugoslavia during WWII, the Yugoslav People’s Army and Territorial Defense, and the Slovenian War of Independence in 1991. He wrote a book on the OSS in Yugoslavia during WWII and we spoke about the book, the OSS, and Yugoslavian resistance movements. Mission Yugoslavia (McFarland, 2020)
K. Lyn Wurth talks about her novel about Calamity Jane https://wp.me/p7CDU9-56U
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1:05 – Blaz talks about his interest in the OSS in Yugoslavia.
2:18 – Blaz describes the OSS and SOE.
4:12 – Blaz talks about the resistance movements in Yugoslavia.
5:56 – Blaz talks about Churchill’s ULTRA reports.
8:54 – Blaz talks about OSS support to the Yugoslavian resistance movements.
11:11 – Blaz talks about problems between the US and the movements they supported.
12:54 – Blaz talks how the OSS did some fighting in Yugoslavia.
14:06 – Blaz talks about Soviet advisors in Yugoslavia in 1944.
14:36 – Blaz talks about the physical security used for the operations
16:03 – Blaz goes into details about how operations were run.
18:15 – Blaz talks about the Yugoslavs who worked for OSS.
20:39 – Blaz talks about prisoner exchanges for OSS members.
22:10 – Blaz talks about Americans captured by the Germans.
23:22 – Blaz talks about partisans who killed Americans.
23:52 – Blaz talks about the resistance in Serbian areas. [Note: Blaz noted later that he accidentally neglected to mention the first Serbian resistance at the start of the country and region’s occupation. He states by email that at the beginning of the occupation of Serbia in 1941 the resistance largely spread but it it was brutally suppressed by the Germans. Then resistance continued in Serbia in 1944.]
25:18 – Blaz talks about the impact the OSS had.
27:18 – Blaz talks about the archives he used.
28:38 – Blaz talks about speaking with OSS and SOE veterans.
29:39 – Blaz talks about the airfields used to fly OSS and Soe into Yugoslavia.
30:26 – Blaz talks about how the partisans kept these airfields secret.
34:56 – Blaz talks about the Americans picked for these missions.
35:24 – Blaz talks about some of the exceptions to whom the OSS recruited.
36:00 – Blaz talks about how OSS and MI-6 were treated in Yugoslavia.
36:55 – Blaz talks about how many missions were working in Yugoslavia but they refused to send troops there.
39:55 – Blaz talks about the OSS sending people into the wrong areas of Yugoslavia.
41:23 – Blaz talks about German spies among the partisans.
42:42 – Blaz talks about how he focused on northern Yugoslavia missions.
43:41 – Blaz talks about the strongly preserved memory of this fighting even today.
45:49 – Blaz talks about the memorials to US and British soldiers.
46:42 – Blaz talks about Yugoslav preservation of allied memorials.
48:28 – Blaz talks about the discussions of the Yugoslavia post-war regimes.
49:30 – Blaz talks about Yugoslav history books highlighted Soviet help.
51:24 – Blaz talks about the so called betrayal of Churchill by Tito.
54:13 – Blaz talks about the recruited Yugoslavs and what they did after the war.
59:26 – Blaz is currently working on a book on WWI in Slovenia and Italy.
1:02:08 – Blaz be found on Amazon and McFarland.
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/mission-yugoslavia/
K. Lyn Wurth talks about her novel about Calamity Jane https://wp.me/p7CDU9-56U
Laird Thompson talks about how he helped discover cosmic voids http://spacewalksmoneytalks.com/p/748
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Guests: Blaz Torkar
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Bryan R. Gibby is a US Army colonel and an associate professor at the US Military Academy at West Point,a s well as acting deputy head of the Department of History. He spoke to me about the Korean War and his book on the subject.
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Note: I had to stay pretty quiet for this interview because I was getting feedback that you can hear most of the time after I speak.
1:17 – Bryan talks about why he wrote on the Korean War. he explains the problem that existed during the war.
7:012 – Bryan talks about what Truman’s situation was during the Korean War and his dealings with the United Nations.
13:10 – Bryan talks about Truman’s military experience and his approach to military affairs.
16:32 – Bryan talks about Truman’s respect for Marshall.
18:38 – Bryan talks about why Army GIs didn’t like the Korean conflict. He also discusses the effects the Korean conflict had on the US Army in general.
25:18 – Bryan talks about the morale of the North Koreans and the Chinese.
31:08 – Bryan talks about US air power in the conflict.
34:09 – Bryan talks about the Air Force’s new interdiction strategy in Korea once strategic bombing didn’t work.
38:35 – Bryan talks about an operation against North Korean hydroelectric dams.
40:56 – Bryan talks about some of the US Navy contributions to this operation.
44:19 – Bryan talks about the resources he used for research.
50:12 – Bryan talks about US Operation Eveready to take over the South Korean government.
1:00:54 – Bryan talks about the options Eisenhower had when he went to Korea to end the conflict.
1:15:41 – More information on the book can be found at the University of Alabama Press.
http://uapress.ua.edu/product/Korean-Showdown,7489.aspx
Sarah Read talks about her award winning ghost novel https://wp.me/p7CDU9-56s
Martin Cooper talks about inventing the cellphone at Motorola http://spacewalksmoneytalks.com/p/728
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Guests: Bryan R. Gibby
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