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80 years on , WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day ItalyBlack South African soldiers fought and died for democracy on the WW II Gothic Line in Italy; upon their return the brutal repression of apartheid was put into lawBy Joe Kirwin There are numerous Gothic Line Offensive stories that are obscure and nearly lost to history but none more so than the more 7,000 South African black soldiers who helped to end Nazi and Italian Fascists tyranny in Italy. Fighting in Tuscany between American and Brazilian troops in the mountains above the city of Montemurlo, the Black South African troops' role was restricted to menial labor and other service-related duties under the command of the White South African Sixth Armored Division. That's because South African law prevented the Black South African soldiers from carrying...2025-07-0429 min
80 years on , WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day ItalyMonte Battaglia 1944: from Myth to History The ferocious 4-month battle that took place at Monte Cassino when Allied Forces attempted to break through the mountains between Naples and Rome and drive the German and Italian Fascist forces out of Italy will always be remembered as the bloodiest and most brutal chapter of the 1943-45 WW II Allied campaign in Italy. Later in 1944, when Allied armies launched the Gothic Line offensive after the liberation of Rome on June 4, the fighting across the northern Apennines is not as steeped in folklore as Monte Cassino but there were a number of epic battles that equaled in...2025-06-1917 min
80 years on , WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day Italy100-year-old Japanese-American U.S. Army veteran Yoshio Nakamura recounts horror, heroism and redemption fighting on the Gothic Line while his family remained in U.S. prisons after Pearl Harbor By Joe Kirwin Soon after the surprise Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when Japanese forces destroyed much of the U.S. Navy and Air Force Pacific Ocean presence, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the arrest of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans living in the United States. They were forced from their homes, farms and businesses and locked up in internment camps in the deserts of the western United States. Yoshio Nakamura and his family were among those that lost everything. They were considered national security threats that could not be trusted. Two years...2025-06-1120 min
80 years on , WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day ItalyThe Rifle and The Rifle 2 author Andrew Biggio describes heroism, desperation, desertion of Gothic Line soldiers used as ``bait'' to pin down German troops in Italy as Allied Forces marched on BerlinBy Joe Kirwin Over the past decade, author and U.S. Marine veteran Andrew Biggio interviewed more than 30 U.S. Army soldiers who fought on the Gothic Line as part of his research for his best-selling books The Rifle and The Rifle 2. Many were in their late 90s or older. But they had vivid, emotionally distraught recall of what happened from Sept. 1944 to April 1945 in the northern ItaIian Apennine mountains. As he describes in the podcast many of the soldiers had been on the front lines for almost two years - far longer than most other Allied...2025-05-3022 min
80 years on , WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day ItalyU.S. Fifth Army begins its Gothic Line thrust with daunting attack up Monte Altuzzo; modern day open-air museum re-enactments fill in the pages of this taboo Italian history for younger generationsBy Joe Kirwin When the U.S. Fifth Army launched its part of the Allied Force Gothic Line one-two punch pincer movement to capture Bologna it began with a one of WW II's most daunting tasks: conquer the imposing heights of Monte Altuzzo 50 kilometers north of Florence. After initial success the offensive bogged down and turned into a WW I type of trench warfare because of a snowy, frigid winter in the mountainous terrain. Eighty years on, the Gotica Toscana Museum, located just below Monte Altuzzo in Tuscany, holds annual day-long re-enactments to not only honor the...2025-05-2834 min
80 years on , WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day ItalyIndian soldiers fought, died on the Gothic Line; 80 years later Indian ex-pat Dhruv Ratti campaigns for recognition that Italians, Europeans benefit from freedom ``nourished by Indian blood''By Joe Kirwin More than 60,000 Indian troops served in the Allied Force armies that fought and died to free Italy from German and Italian Fascist tyranny even though the soldiers from India did not have democracy in their homeland. Serving as volunteers under British command in the Adriatic sector of the Gothic Line offensive, Hindus, Moslems, Sikhs, Gurkhas and others fought side by side - primarily as fierce mountain fighters. They covered the flank of British soldiers on their right coming up the hills over looking the Adriatic Sea and American Fifth Army on their left, who...2025-05-2330 min
80 years on , WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day ItalyThe Gothic Line Offensive launched after 100,000 British Eigth Army troops moved 100 miles to the Adriatic coast in one of the most daring, difficult logistical operations in WW IIBy Joe Kirwin After U.S. Fifth Army General Mark Clark deviated from an Allied Force plan in early June 1944 to trap retreating Germans in central Italy and instead moved his troops to liberate Rome, the controversial decision outraged British commanders, especially Lt. General Oliver Leese. As a result, Leese rejected the original Gothic Line offensive plan for a joint American-British attack up the center of Italy in the Apennine mountains to liberate Bologna from Nazi and Italian Fascist occupation. Instead, Leese launched one of the most complex and dangerous logistical exercises in WW II...2025-05-2127 min
80 years on , WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day ItalyU.S. Army African American soldiers fought two Gothic Line wars: one vs. the Nazis, the other vs. racist U.S. Army commanders. Author Solace Wales tells the story based on 30 years of researchBy Joe Kirwin When U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January of 2025 one of the first things his newly confirmed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did was ban books in the Pentagon and Armed Forces academies and other libraries and schools that tell the story of institutional racism faced by segregated African American soldiers during WW II and when they returned to the United States. When American art teacher Solace Wales and her husband bought in the early 1970s a small house in the mountain-top village of Sommocolonia in Italy, she had no idea about...2025-05-2033 min
80 years on , WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day ItalyIntroduction: Gothic Line 80th anniversary podcast overview, expert discussion panel, lessons in today's geopolitical worldBy Joe Kirwin 85 years ago Italy was on the wrong side of history after joining Adolf Hitler in declaring war against Allied countries including the United States and the United Kingdom. It took the most multinational and multiracial army ever assembled to finally end Nazi and Italy Fascist tyranny in Italy in April of 1945 when the nine-month Gothic Line offensive concluded and WW II ended in Europe with Germany's unconditional surrender. Often referred to as the Forgotten Front, the Allied Force Gothic Line offensive took place after the liberation of Rome on June 4, 1944 and the...2025-05-201h 0180 years on , WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day ItalyThe Past is Present - Part I: In the 1930s many European countries were in denial about Hitler. Today the same is true about the threat Vladimir Putin's aggression and imperialistic ambitionsRussian emigre and Prague-based history professor Sergei Medvedev explains how the past is present in Europe as Russian President Vladimir Putin makes no secret of his plans to rebuild the Iron Curtain. In addition just as Hitler had European and Asian allies so does Putin. Today in Europe a growing list of far-right, far-left and centrist politicians either support Putin or are apologists. Whereas Japan was on Hitler's side Putin receives assistance from North Korea, China and Iran providing assistance in his war against Ukraine along with a growing cadre of far-right, far-left and centrists politicians in Europe. 2025-05-1824 min
80 years on , WW II Gothic Line ghosts haunt modern day ItalyHundreds of WW II Nazi, Italian Fascist civilian massacres in Italy still a festering politcal woundBy Joe Kirwin Nazi and Italian Fascist troops committed more than 200 civilian massacres in WW II in Italy between July of 1944 and April of 1945. Few were held accountable for the cold-blooded murders, especially in Italy. Eighty years later the issue festers as Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni's political party Brothers of Italy has neo-fascist roots linked to Hitler's ally Benito Mussolini. He ruled Italy for two decades before he was killed by Italian freedom fighters at the end of WW II. Carlo Gentile, an Italian native and history professor at the University of Cologne in...2025-05-0848 min
Right Way Politics with Brian KirwinDemocrats Throw Biden Out AgainDays after an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Democrats oust Joe Biden again, opening the door for Kamala Harris.Brian Kirwin tells us why.2024-07-2219 min
Pacific Street Blues & AmericanaSpotlight on Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Blues Band, part 2 of 2 EXTENDED SHOW, June 30, 2024Pacific St Blues & AmericanaSpotlight on Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Blues BandEXTENDED SHOW - part 2 of 2 June 30, 2024Facebook Contact19. Fleetwood Mac feat Bob Welch / Sentimental Lady20. Best Coast / Rhiannon21. Rhiannon Giddens / You Louisiana Man 22. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers feat Stevie Nicks / Insider 23. Johnny Cash feat Lindsay Buckingham & Mick Fleetwood / Sea of Heartbreak24. Ronnie Earl / Heart of Glass (a musical tribute to Peter Green) 25. Rory Gallagher / Showbiz Blues26. Joe Bonamassa / Lazy Poker Blues 27. Peter Green & Splinter (solo) / Can You Tell Me Why? 28. Jeremy...2024-07-011h 43
Right Way Politics with Brian KirwinWill Biden Be Replaced on the Democratic Ticket?Virginia political expert Brian Kirwin analyzes the Democrats' options with Joe Biden. Will removing him create more problems than it solves?2024-06-2814 min
Pop The Crowd NetworkPopping With... Joe Kirwinwe sit down with North safe guarder Joe Kirwin. Joe tells us all about his role in North, where wrestling should be going and what we can do as fans to make wrestling a safe place for everyone to enjoy. Along the way we discuss unionizing, code of conducts, North Wrestling, Impact Wrestling and HT Drake owing Joe a beer.2021-11-1258 min
Mentally Sound Radio ShowMentally Sound Show 11 (8/1/16)Steven Hesse (@Geek_Apocalypse) and guest host Ricky (@Vividricky) present our 11th award winning show broadcast live 8/1/16. Featuring live interviews with artist/poet Sean Burn, Jenny Wallwork from Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, David Hill who talks Work Experience, Mental Health News with Steve,Joe Kirwin (DepaulNorth) and Pat Hearon from unison Women and jules reads some poetry! Also Featuring an exclusive podcast only pre recorded interview with Stephen Luke about NHS in the north east and steve interviews David before his ASDA work Experience.2016-01-1300 min
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