Back to talk about Operation Diadem and the final battle of Monte Cassino is Frank de Planta. Frank talks about the options considered when planning this attack, some of the controversies that arose, and the outcome, as well as the focus on liberating Rome from Axis hands. There will be another episode that also talks about Operation Diadem with a focus on the failure of Allied command. Links Cassino Battlefields (http://www.cassinobattlefields.co.uk/) Valor Tours (https://www.valortours.com/)

Returning to continue the story of the 10th Mountain Division are Doug Schmidt, Curator at the 10th Mountain Division and Fort Drum Museum, and Dr. Chris Juergens, Head of Curatorial Services and Anschutz Curator of Military History at History Colorado. This time we talk about the Division heading into 1944, with an extremely challenge exercise to test their training.

Special thank you to the 10th Mountain Division Band for providing the music as a response to the challenge issued by Lt. Col. Brian Kerg in the Operation Flintlock episode.

Links

Building Camp Hale: A Deeper History of America's High-Altitude Army Training Ground (https://www.historycolorado.org/story/2022/10/07/building-camp-hale-deeper-history-americas-high-altitude-army-training-ground)

10th Mountain Division Resource Center (https://history.denverlibrary.org/research/western-history/10th-mountain-division-resource-center)

10th Mountain Division History (https://home.army.mil/drum/units-tenants/10th-mountain-division-li)

10th Mountain Division & Fort Drum Museum (https://history.army.mil/museums/fieldMuseums/fortDrum/index.html)

Ninety-Pound Rucksack (https://christianbeckwith.com/)

History Colorado (https://www.historycolorado.org/)

Why We Fight Bonus Content (https://www.patreon.com/motheroftanks)

In this episode, Dr. Thomas Bradbeer talks to me about the Royal Air Force raid on Nuremberg at the end of March in 1944. He also details some of the tactics these pilots and aircrews used, as well as the challenges they faced with the Luftwaffe, and towards the end of the episode we talk a bit about his work with the US Army's Command and General Staff College in the Department of Command and Leadership. Links Books by Dr. Thomas Bradbeer (https://www.amazon.com/Books-Thomas-G-Bradbeer/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AThomas+G.+Bradbeer)

Army University Press SMEs (https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Experts/)

Mother of Tanks website (www.motheroftanks.com) Why We Fight Bonus Content (https://www.patreon.com/motheroftanks) One of the photos in the title graphic was downloaded from the British Imperial War Museum: ©IWM(CH12598)

In this episode, Christopher Kolakowski returns to tell the story of the Battles of Imphal and Kohima in March-July 1944.

Links

Wisconsin Veterans Museum (https://wisvetsmuseum.com/)

Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 by Field-Marshal Viscount (https://shorturl.at/BDWZ6)

Nations in the Balance: The India-Burma Campaigns, December 1943 - August 1944 by Christopher L. Kolakowski (https://shorturl.at/qtDPY)

"Is That the End or Do We Go On?": The Battle of Kohima, 1944 by Christopher L. Kolakowski (https://history.army.mil/armyhistory/AH-Magazine/2019AH_spring/AH111(W).pdf)

Road of Bones: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944 by Fergal Keane (https://shorturl.at/uwKVX)

United States Army in World War II: China-Burma-India Theater:

• Stilwell's Mission to China (https://history.army.mil/html/books/009/9-1/CMH_Pub_9-1.pdf)
• Stilwell's Command Problems (https://history.army.mil/html/books/009/9-2/CMH_Pub_9-2.pdf)
• Time Runs Out in CBI (https://history.army.mil/html/books/009/9-3/CMH_Pub_9-3.pdf)

Mother of Tanks website (www.motheroftanks.com)

Why We Fight Bonus Content (https://www.patreon.com/motheroftanks)