Al Murray and James Holland discuss the Allies’ policy of using liberal amounts of ammunition as a way of conserving the lives of their men.
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I didn’t get the name of the guy who was talking in the clip you discussed about German refusal to learn from the allies. Or rather google doesn’t recognise my mangeling of the spelling. Lil help?
PS: love the pod. WW2 is the only thing middle aged white guys are allowed to be nerdy about.