How about some discussion about the chaos of the initial landings and how characters like Roosevelt Jr or Allen pulled them back from disaster?
Or the attempts to capture the harbours at Oran, Algiers and Safi (operations Reservist, Terminal and Blackstone) or the paratroopers on operation Villain?
Use it to illustrate how much hard work the allies still had to do to be able to pull off an amphibious assault on mainland Europe to tie it into the wider picture of the strategy for the rest of the war?

Thanks @oriskany for what mist have neen early start, and thanks everyone at Beasts, nice afternoon listen for what is going to a slow week at work, break up Thursday for Annual boozy weekend around Salute!

Nice video Guy’s to refresh everybody, loved the wee day in the life of a trooper talks everyone has days where things screwup.

Enjoyed catching up with this, was really annoyed that I forgot I had to go on a training course on my day off. Cheered me up watching it this evening. Would really enjoy some more historical rambles.
Thanks for the shout out for my pics.

Sorry Jim/Oriskany, missed the live show but home again and watching it now, lovely job mind you….. As, your normal.

Good afternoon Beasts of War – First of all, HELLO and thanks so much to everyone who showed up to the Live Stream. If we do this again, I will definitely have another computer up and running to the side that will s how me the Chat so I can respond more directly. Watching the replay now on Twitch, I’m seeing where we didn’t get to all the questions people were asking, so I will try to get to some more of them now. @mandapii – To my knowledge no one has tried to fund a war by Kickstarter, but… Read more »

Tank catapult is real…
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/243553-so-what-is-this-tank-catapult-solved/

@commodorerob: Absolutely agree, “Most war movies made by Hollywood are rather dodgy when it comes to facts, they are entertainment after all.” The issue for me is that they are such a powerful medium is that this becomes the new “accepted” worldview on a given topic. They literally make us dumber as a culture. Yes, enough Star Wars. 😀 And indeed, Chain of Command was tangled in knots among the American commanders (brigade command and up) during many of these battles. And thanks for the top on the George Cross for Malta. I had a feeling I was close but… Read more »

Well done lads

Thanks, @damon – augh, what a waste of a Leopard 2! 😀 @revliss – I’m embarrassed to say I had look up who the Mighty Jingle was. 😀 – The “crap”the Americans brought were the M3 ee still being used at that time, and honestly the M3 halftrack as well. “Purple Heart Boxes” as they troops called them, they really weren’t too well “armored” at all, at least compared to the aforementioned kangaroos that would be fielded later by the Canadians. @elessar2590 – thanks for all the great comments on the tanks, the Kangaroos, the Churchills, and the Crusaders. And… Read more »

@buggeroff – “bored” – “riveting” – I get it. 😀 And thanks for the kinds words on “fading away.” 😀 Got a little bit of a “shot across the bow” warning from the doctor regarding blood sugar, so cutting carbs almost completely down to nothing. @dugthefug1644 – sorry I couldn’t get a very solid answer for you on re-boring accuracy. I did find some semi-detailed information over on the Tunisia 75th Anniversary thread in the History Forum (page 4 I believe) @subedai – the differences between North Africa and Western Europe minis and uniforms would be pretty significant – I… Read more »

Last reply from the livestream: @revliss – I would say the longest serving equipment from WW2 could either be the Shermans that were upgraded and saw combat against Soviet-made T-55s in the Yom Kippur War as late as 1973 … or the T-34/85 which was in action in civil wars in Angola as late as the 1990s to my knowledge.