Dr. Blood and I recorded for a handful of hours the Saturday before last and so this is one episode from that recording session. I will release a second episode that talks about the Luftwaffe in Poland in 1943 as soon as I finish editing it.

Links 

Dr. Philip W. Blood, Historian (website)

Dr. Blood on WW2TV: Birds of Prey and SS Leadership in Hitler's War

Books: 

Birds of Prey (https://amzn.to/3ZYiHqD) <-- Amazon Affiliate Link

Hitler's Bandit Hunters (https://amzn.to/3LscTkG) <-- Amazon Affiliate Link

Krulak Center: https://www.usmcu.edu/Academic-Programs/Brute-Krulak-Center-for-Innovation-and-Creativity/

Iron Bottom Sound: https://pacificwrecks.com/provinces/solomons/guadalcanal/maps/map-iron-bottom-sound-shipwrecks.html

Naval History and Heritage Command: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/archives.html 

Marine Corps History Publications:

https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Publishing/History-Division-Publications/Books-by-topic/WWII/

https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Publishing/History-Division-Publications/Books-by-topic/

https://www.history.navy.mil/

For more information about this series, as well as links to all the other content, check out www.motheroftanks.com 

You can find Bill's books here:

Sabers Through the Reich 

https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813177533/sabers-through-the-reich/

Commanding Professionalism

https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813198231/commanding-professionalism/

(or Amazon Associates Links for "Sabers Through the Reich" https://amzn.to/3ECi9xS and "Commanding Professionalism" https://amzn.to/3kuouop if anyone wishes to use them. For info on these, check out http://www.motheroftanks.com/ads-sponsors-and-affiliate-links/)

Brotherhood in Combat: How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam by Dr. Jeremy P. Maxwell https://www.oupress.com/9780806161150/brotherhood-in-combat/ (https://amzn.to/3YGzSMK   <-- Amazon Affiliate link)

For more information about this series, as well as links to all the content and other details, check out www.motheroftanks.com

Mark is also the author of the book General Leslie J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the US Army, a book which I used a lot in my first series, Building an American Army, back in 2021. You can find the book here https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700620708/ and here https://amzn.to/3IaGiwu (this one is an Amazon Affiliate link).

The earlier paper discussed is entitled "Defeat at Kasserine: American Armor Doctrine, Training, and Battle Command in Northwest Africa, World War II" and can be found here: https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll2/id/31/rec/14

Recently Mark published this article for the WWII Museum, which, as discussed in this episode, demonstrates the changes in his analysis of the situation in Tunisia in February 1943 since the earlier paper, written in 2002: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/kasserine-pass-german-offensive-american-victory

For more information about this series, as well as links to all the content and other details, check out www.motheroftanks.com

For more information about this series, as well as links to all the content and other details, check out www.motheroftanks.com

For more information about this series, as well as links to all the content and other details, check out www.motheroftanks.com

For more information about this series, as well as links to all the content and other details, check out www.motheroftanks.com