On the ninth episode of The Panzer Podcast we will essentially continue right where we left off last episode: we’ll dive into the reorganization efforts of 1944 to the Panzerwaffe, delve into the wide world of 1940’s style infrared optics, have a look at night fighting, and finally we’ll look underneath the hood of how effective close air support was on the Western Front along with what was going on during the Battle for Normandy.

Enjoy!

John Burgess

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Additional Sources Include: “Panther in Detail” by Feist and Culver, “Panzerkrieg: Vol 1” by Jason Mark, “The Last Battle: Battle of Berlin” by Cornelius Ryan, “Tomb of the Panzerwaffe” by Aleksei Isaev, “Firebirds: Flying the Typhoon in Action” by Charles Demoulin, “Decision in Normandy” by Carlo D’Este, “Airpower myths and facts” by Phillip Meilinger, Col. (ret.), “Air Power at the Battlefront” by Ian Gooderson, “Strike from the Sky” by Richard Hallion, “Das Reich” by Max Hastings, “The Fighter-Bomber in the Normandy Campaign” by Christopher Evans, “Panther Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS Normandy Campaign” by Dennis Oliver, “SS-Hitlerjugend, the history of the 12th SS division” by Rupert Butler, “The Falaise Gap Battles: Normandy 1944” by Simon Forty, “The Falaise Pocket” by Major Braden DeLauder, “Panther im Einsatz 1943-45” by Horst Scheibert.