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Französische Erfolgsfilme waren in den vergangenen Jahren nicht immer tatsächlich auch wirklich gut, viel zu oft zudem Vorlagen für noch schlechtere deutsche Komödien. Obwohl En Fanfare bei uns, wenig vielversprechend anmutend, auf Postern wie ein eben solcher Film präsentiert wird und mit “Die leisen und die großen Töne” eher sperrig umbenannt wurde - hat er Daniel, entgegen aller Erwartung, ausnahmsweise wirklich gut gefallen!

Die letzte Woche war wild! Paramount bewirft uns mit einer wahren Flut an Postern für den nächsten Sonic-Film und ein neuer Trailer steht in den Startlöchern. Es gibt mal wieder ein Update zu großen Delisting-Welle von SEGA-Klassikern und Merchandise gibt es auch! Außerdem kriechen wieder ein paar Projekte aus dem Grab, die doch noch weiterhin Support erhalten. Zeitstempel: (0:00) Intro (2:06) Stream-Rückblick (10:42) News-Rückblick (1:50:19) Ende, Kommentare & Outro Livestreams jeden Donnerstag um 20 Uhr auf Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/ruki185 Kontakt: gottapodcast@gmail.com Hier geht's zu unserem Discord-Server: https://discord.gg/KEAmvmKVPF Hinterlasst uns gerne einen Kommentar mit Feedback, Fragen und/oder Kritik! Das könnt ihr unter anderem im Newsbeitrag auf SpinDash.de bzw. auf dem Discord-Server tun. Auf Social Media sind wir natürlich auch vertreten: Sowohl auf Instagram (@gottapodcast), als auch auf Bluesky (@spindash.de) oder aber einfach unter dem Hashtag #GottaPodCast! Auch über eine positive Bewertung freuen wir uns immer! Die Weblinks zum Nachlesen gibt's im Newsbeitrag auf spindash.de

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:23:00 +0000 https://hr-ungeschminkt.podigee.io/29-s02e03-hr-und-purpose ce6f0436910041df1ba3649b418ea49c Der neue Purpose von Westwing In dieser spannenden Folge von HR ungeschminkt sprechen wir mit Miriam Sternitzky, Chief People Officer bei Westwing, über das Thema Purpose im Unternehmenskontext. Wir beleuchten, warum Purpose heute eine zentrale Rolle in der Unternehmensstrategie spielt und wie er sowohl den Erfolg von Unternehmen als auch die Motivation der Mitarbeitenden positiv beeinflussen kann.

Während Mikkel von seinen Postern in seinem Kinderzimmer erzählt versucht er, Andi in seine Cola-Sucht hineinzuziehen. Andi brilliert allerdings und zeigt Mikkel seine fehlerhafte Argumentation auf. Erkennt man, dass Andi diesen Text geschrieben hat?

Hast du schon einmal eine Person getroffen, die völlig aufgelöst und emotional am Limit war? Hast du dich vielleicht gefragt, was jetzt das Beste ist, was du tun kannst ? Vielleicht warst du dir auch unsicher, was jetzt die richtigen Worte sein könnten!? Für solche Fälle gibt es kommunikative Erste Hilfe! In dieser Folge bekommst du hilfreiche Tipps für kommunikative Erste Hilfe und einen kostenlosen Guide! In dieser Podcastfolge erfährst du:

Verwandeln Sie jeden Stau in ein Sommerfest! Wenn die Autobahn zum Stillstand kommt, nutzen Sie die Zeit für kleine Freuden und den großen Perspektivwechsel. Erfahren Sie, wie Sie mit Lebensweisheiten, nostalgischen Postern und spontanen Dachbox-Tänzen den Straßenverkehr revolutionieren können. Eine Glosse von Caro Matzko.

Martin and Andy travel back to the early Eighties to uncover the birth of Agatha Christie on television. Before Joan Hickson's Miss Marple and David Suchet's Poirot came Tommy and Tuppence, two bright young adventurers from the Roaring Twenties played by Francesca Annis and James Warwick: Partners in Crime. Andy also delves further back to explain how Why Didn't They Ask Evans? and The Seven Dials Mystery helped pave the way for Agatha Christie on TV. But what one factor linked these productions and Partners? Listen along as Martin fails to answer this question and others like it as he reluctantly takes his 'Christie on TV' O' Level live on the podcast without any revision time! There is also a plea for the return of Annis and Warwick who are now the perfect age to play Tommy & Tuppence as an elderly couple as Christie had them in By the Pricking of my Thumbs and Postern of Fate. Are you listening big TV companies? Next Time: Quiller

Du. Ja genau du! Du hattest auch mal ein Idol, ein Vorbild, einen Helden..oder Heldin. Jemanden, zu dem man hoch blickt. Einen Polarstern in schweren Zeiten…Wir haben unsere Zimmer mit den Postern geschmückt und unsere Nachnamen mit dem unseres idols ausgetauscht. DOCH OH NEIN! Was passiert, wenn es unserem Idol nicht gut geht? Wenn unser Vorbild schwer krank ist? Wie können wir da Solidarität zeigen? BZZZZZZ Erstmal Glatze machen.

In ihren 20ern gründete Lea Lange Junique und brachte damit Kunst auf bezahlbarem Weg in Form von Postern und anderen Accessoires in viele viele Haushalte. Die Reise rund um Junique wäre eine ganze Folge wert gewesen. Wie frei fühlte Lea sich bei ihrer ersten Gründung? Welche Rolle spielte für sie das erste und dann auch das zweite Kind in ihrem Arbeits- und Unternehmerinnenkontext? Und, wie sah ihr Exit aus? Doch Lea Lange sitzt mir in diesem Gespräch nicht allein als Gründerin von Junique gegenüber, sondern auch als Gründerin von Lunary, einem Nahrungsergänzungsmittelangebot, speziell auf Frauen in ihren verschiedenen Lebensphasen angepasst. Ob schwanger, in Stillzeit, hormonell oder natürlich verhütet, in den Wechseljahren oder 65+. Damit betritt Lea eine neue Bühne. Eine Bühne mit Purpose. Ob das Mutterwerden sie dahinbrachte, ob sich Gründen in den 20ern anders anfühlt als in den 30ern, wie sich ihre Arbeitsweise heute von der damaligen unterscheidet und auch unterscheiden soll - all das hört Ihr in diesem Gespräch! Viel Spaß in THE MOMPANY | DIE BALANCE ZWISCHEN BABY UND BUSINESS mit Lea Lange über Junique und auch ihre Neugründung Lunary! Lea Lange ➡️ https://www.lunary.de ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/lunaryofficial (@lunaryofficial) Supporter dieser Folge ist „baby-walz“: GLÜCKLICH GROß WERDEN – Mit diesem Motto begeistert baby-walz seit über 70 Jahren neue Familien. Mit dem Code "MOMPANY10” erhaltet ihr ab einem Einkauf von 25€ zehn Prozent Rabatt auf euren Einkauf bis einschließlich 31.03.2024. www.baby-walz.de Einige Marken und ausgewählte reduzierte Artikel sind von der Aktion ausgeschlossen. Alle Bedingungen findet ihr unter https://baby-walz.de/code

Das Zimmer mit Postern der Lieblingsband tapezieren oder auf Konzerten in Ohnmacht fallen … alles noch normal. Das sagt zumindest Martin Huppert. Er ist Psychologe und hat sich viel mit dem Thema Star-Fan-Beziehungen beschäftigt. Im Podcast spricht er mit Salon5-Reporterin Malin darüber, wieso es komplett normal ist, für einen Star zu schwärmen und ab wann Fan-Sein dann doch toxisch wird.

Ihre Mutter war glühende Verehrerin der Beatles - und so fand die Stuttgarter Illustratorin Paulina Eichhorn eines Tages im Keller einen dicken Ordner mit Postern, Fotos, Zeitungsartikeln und Autogrammkarten. Dieser inspirierte sie zu einer Graphic Novel über die legendären vier Musiker aus Liverpool, in der nicht nur die Bandgeschichte erzählt wird, sondern auch der Einfluss von John Lennon, Paul McCartney und den anderen beiden auf die Popkultur bis heute. Gemeinsam mit dem Komponisten Felix Janosa erzählt Paulina Eichhorn, viele, oft amüsante, auch skurrile Anekdoten von den Beatles. Die knalligen Retrofarben und der ganz eigene Malstil von Paulina Eichhorn machen diese Graphic Novel besonders lesenswert - nicht nur für eingefleischte Beatles-Fans.

Wir besprechen in dieser Folge:Wie Rene als Verkäufer von Ölgemälden an Möbelhäuser die Idee für MyPoster entwickelteDurch welche Tiefs Rene gehen musste - und wie knapp MyPoster davor war dicht gemacht zu werdenWieso Rene ohne Investoren gründet - und ob er es wieder machen würdeWarum Google und Microsoft es nie hinbekommen haben, das Geschäftsmodell von MyPoster zu kopierenUnd natürlich: Renes 2 beste Geschäftsideen die du klauen kannstDie beste Datenbank für Geschäftsideen mit den Ideen von Deutschlands besten Gründern und Investoren gibt's auf www.digitaleoptimisten.de/datenbankDigitale Optimisten unterstützen:5 Sterne Review auf Apple Podcasts oder SpotifyDeinen 3 schlausten Freunden von diesem Podcast erzählenFeedback an alexander@digitaleoptimisten.de senden

Last time we spoke about the mop up operations on New Georgia and the continued drive upon Salamaua and Lae. Munda had fallen, New Georgia was certainly a lost cause, but that did not mean there wasn't come cleaning up to do. The Americans were stuck mopping up places like Arundel and Baanga seeing fierce Japanese resistance. Sasaki ordered his men to fight as hard as they possibly could while others made their way to evacuation points. Over on Green Hell, the Australian and American forces had just taken Mubo and Lababia ridge, prompting General Nakano to create a last line of defense in front of Salamaua. Now the allies had to cross the francisco river and face multiple hills, ridges and knolls. Forward units forded the francisco river and grabbed a few knolls catching a glimpse finally of Salamaua, but a glimpse was all they were going to get as the Japanese fought tooth and nail to push them back. This episode is Operation Postern Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  The time has come at last. For months, we have seen the Australian and American forces fight for each hill, ridge and knoll, cross over ravines, rivers, swamps, a green hell of a landscape filled with more horror than just the Japanese. From the Jungles of Way to the rugged mountains of bobdubi and Komiatum, through the endless rain, mud and death. Operation Postern was to finally be unleashed, landings at Lae and Nadzab would commence. Now back in August, Admiral Barbey and General Wooten were forced to postpone D-day for September 4. For Lae the plan called for two battalions of Brigadir Victor Windeyer's 20th brigade to land on Red Beach; the 2/15th battalion would hit the eastern flank and the 2/17th to western flank closer to Lae. The 2/13th would hit Yellow beach; the 2/23rd battalion with a company of engineers, a field ambulance, a force of artillery and light anti-aircraft section would join the landing phase; the 26th brigade would follow up the initial landings and move right through the beachhead. The planners were concerned with possible Japanese naval action against their beachheads at night, as this had occurred at Guadalcanal and Milne Bay, so the defense of Red Beach would be coordinated with the 2/2nd machine gun battalion. Red Beach was selected as it was close to Lae, just a bit due east, but out of range of her large gun batteries. Yellow beach was further east and selected as an additional landing area to protect the eastern flank of the main beachhead that would be at red beach. The allies could not provide continuous air cover thus Brigadier Victor Windeyer's 20th brigade would have to land and unload quick as all hell. The initial plans called for a time of landing known as “h hour” to be between 3am and 4am in line with Wooten's request that it occur two hours during moonlight before dawn. They estimated they would need 9-10 hours for the unloading phase, the LST's would then retract at around 1pm. However, when the landing date was postponed for September 4th, this changed everything. Now there would be no morning moon, thus H hour could not be scheduled until after sunrise to allow time for the allied navy to identify the correct beach on a coast that was covered by a low-lying swampy jungle terrain, there was no prominent landmarks it would be difficult. This delayed the landing until 6:30am, resulting in the loss of around 3 hours of unloading time. Alongside that came the decision to retract the LST's by 11am as the allied air cover could not be guaranteed after 11am. This the unloading time was now reduced to 4.5 hours, that a hell of a lot less than they needed. It was also expected that the troops would take at least 1 to 1.5 hours to disembark leaving just 3 hours to unload supplies. Again logistics are not sexy, but this is the kind of problems needed to be overcome to win wars. So Brigadier David Whitehead's 26th brigade was going to follow up the initial landings, moving straight through the beachhead with the 2/2nd machine gun battalion who were earmarked to guard red beach. Furthermore General Heavy's brigade would dispatch some amphibian scouts with the 532nd engineer boat and shore regiment to go in on the first wave to establish red and yellow markers for the two beaches. To make things even more confusing, there was this enormous fringing reef along the thousand mile coastline with a few breaks. One break in the reef line near a village called Tauali was going to be marked Green beach as a back up landing area. The one and half mile of good narrow beach was to be Yellow beach 1, and yes there was a yellow beach 2, closer to Silimati. Admiral Barbey was going to employ every vessel he had; 4 Destroyer transports, the Gilmer, Humphreys, Brooks and Sands; 20 LCI's, 18 LCT's and 13 LSTs. From August 20-22nd Barbey had a full-scale landing rehearsal carried out at beaches on the south coast of Normanby island. The men learnt a few things from this experience. The first was that the surfacing of tracks with steel mesh was too slow to allow the vehicles to clear the beach. They decided that more stores would be loaded as bulk cargo and more labor would be provided to clear the landing crafts. Thus on August 29th, the 2/13th battalion was taken to Normanby island on destroyer transports were the men were disembarking from the LCVP's up to their necks in water. There were major differences as you can imagine for the conditions in Australia vs New Guinea. As Patrick Bourke remarked ‘the country fringing the beach was the worst we had been in. Almost impenetrable jungle grew in waist deep swamps, crisscrossed by much deeper creeks.' There was also a pre-emptive naval bombardment of Finschhafen as reports began to come in indicating enemy troops and supplies were being moved down the coast from Finschhafen by night. Vice Admiral Carpender ordered Captain Jesse Carter, commander of destroyer squadron 5 to sweep the Huan Gulf by night and hit Finschhafen. One of Carpenders staff noted  ‘It will be worthwhile to prove the Navy is willing to pitch in, even if we get nothing but coconuts,”. On August 22nd, destroyers Perkins, Smith, Conyngham and Mahan departed Milne bay enroute for the Huon Gulf. This was the furthest allied vessels larger than PT boats had ventured along the New Guinea coast since the beginning of the pacific war. Early on August 22rd, they opened fire on Finschhafen, firing 540 rounds of 5 inch shells within 10 minutes before hauling ass out of there. It was the first naval bombardment of Japanese forces in New Guinea. As for the battle for the skies, General Kenney was preparing to launch a series of air raids against Lae to support Operation postern. On the day before the landing, 21 allies bombers would hit Lae Airfield to try and knock out their aerial capabilities. Now all of that was just for the Lae landing, we got an entire other operation to hit Nadzab, designated as Z-day which because of the postponement was changed to September 5th. 96 C-47's, 82 carrying the regiments, 5 carrying artillery and 9 for supplies would be employed by Colonel Paul Prentiss's 54th troop carrier wing to transport Colonel Kenneth Kinsler's 503rd parachute regiment. Alongside this, Brigadier Eather's 25th brigade were earmarked to be the first flown in after the initial landings. On August 31st tossed 3 battalion commanders, their operations and communications officers with supplies using a Flying fortress at a very low altitude over the drop zone. They were acting as a sort of reconnaissance and they would uncover vital information to ensure safe location markers for accurate future drops. Hell they even performed meteorological analysis to figure out the wind conditions for jump areas. Meanwhile they keep saying everyday here in montreal its gonna be sunny and its rained for 5 days straight.  There would be rehearsals for the parachuting forces before September 3rd when the final plan was issued. Kinsler's 1st battalion led by Major John Britten would hit field B with the task of securing the Nadzab airfield site before establishing a defensive perimeter and beginning work on the airfield. Meanwhile the Australian 2/2nd pioneer battalion led by Lt Colonel J.T Lang would cross the Markham to help construct a new airfield. Alongside this Kinsler's 2nd battalion led by Lt Colonel George Jones was going to hit field A to capture the Gabsonkek area which would prevent the Japanese from advancing from the north or northwest. Kinsler's 3rd battalion led by Lt COlonel John Tolson would hit field c to capture Gabmatzung and prevent the Japanese from advancing from the east. Furthermore Prentiss would drop 22 dummy paratroopers in the forests south of Yalu right where Japanese forces occupying Heath's plantation would be able to see them. It was hoped this deception would delay advances towards Nadzab. By the way I took the time to educate myself a bit more on what is known as Paradummy's, because honestly until writing this episode I had no idea it was a thing. These were burlap cases filled with straw and plant waste, they kind of look like sackboy to be honest. As you can imagine from ground level looking fairly high up they do look like real paratroopers and they often were dropped alongside real paratroopers to give them a fighting chance against enemy bullets. The more you know.  After all the planning was done Barbey's little armada departed Milne Bay on the morning of September 3rd. Their journey was uneventful as they disembarked at Buna for a short break before re-embarking in the afternoon. After this point Heavy's Morobe base was hit by 9 Rabaul based Betty's with 27 Zeros for escort which tried to high altitude bomb them, doing little damage. Because of the deceptive campaign against Salamaua, termed the Salamaua magnet, very few IJA forces were left guarding Lae. At Lae were Companies 10 and 11 of the 115th regiment to the right bank of the Markham; Company 6 of the 238th regiment at Markham point; the 2 machine gun company of the 238th regiment were spread between the Bunga river and Bulu River; the 15th independent engineer regiment, 2nd company of the 5th battalion of heavy field artillery, the 25th, 29th and 30th machine cannon companies would all be at Lae proper. Aside from the few IJA troops, Rear Admiral Fujita Ruitaro had the 7th base force, formed around the 5th Yokosuka and 5th Sasebo SNLF and the 82nd naval garrisons anti-aircraft and coastal defense units. The Japanese were having a hell of a difficult time supplying their forces at Lae. To supply the near 10,000 or so men present within the Lae-Salamaua area each month required, 150 barges carrying 1500 cubic meters of supplies. Only large type barges could manage to get through the Dampier straits rather rough sea, smaller barges were too dangerous for the task. After each passing month, the naval ships used for transports were decreasing and by May the supplies were being carried by 6 submarines, cutting the volume in half the following month. After that supplies began to be carried overland from Wewak and Madang and a new barge route was established through Sio and Finschhafen. Regardless the Japanese were barely able to keep Lae and Salamaua supplied. This saw barely 300 fit men left to guard Lae with 2650 troops, malnourished, sick, wounded or suffering tropical ailments. The Japanese did have some big guns however, 28 75mm, 4 105mm and two 155mm for the coastal defenses, but their ammunition supply was quite limited. The 155mm's only had 30 shells a piece, while the 105mm had 50.  By late July, General Adachi decided to place Major General Shoge Ryoichi in command of the defenses at Lae, talk about a shitty promotion haha. Ryoichi's rd battalion, 238th regiment was sent first to Salamaua, then Company 6th and the 2nd machine gun company of the 238th regiment managed to reach Lae, but by the time things cooked up the rest would be stuck in Finschhafen. Therefore Rear Admiral Mori Kunizo was sent to grab command of the 7th base force in the meantime while Fujita would lead all the IJN and IJA units currently at Lae. By nightfall on September 3rd, the final voyage began. The allied vessels got to the assembly area unhindered and undetected and by 5:50am on the 4th identified the beach markers. The destroyer transports lowered the landing craft carrying the first wave while performing a 6 minute bombardment. The first landing craft hit the beach at 6:30am and at his guard post at the Japanese anti-aircraft positions overlooking the Lae airfield, private Wada Kiichi heard the sound and saw the flashes of a naval bombardment out in the Guon Gulf. He wrote this ‘Suddenly, there was a booming sound from the sea, and in a split second, I sighted red and yellow tracers come flying on a half moon ballistic arc. Where would the huge fleet land?‘Aren't they, in fact, landing right here in Lae?  ‘If I must die, I will fight with courage and die like an imperial navy man without shame.' Brigadier Windeyer's troops began to land at Red and Yellow beach, only meeting 30 members of the 2nd machine gun company of the 238th regiment who they brushed off around the Bulu plantation. General Kenney unleashed air raids against the Japanese airbases. At 7:45am 13 RAAF bombers, 10 Beauforts and 3 A-20 Bostons hit Gasmata; at 9am 24 Liberators hit Lae; at 9:30am 9 Mitchells hit Tuluvu on Cape Gloucester and 3 Bostons returned to hit Gasmata again in the afternoon. As the 22nd squadron War diary noted of the Gasmata raid “the strip is considered unserviceable”. The second wave approached the beach in the larger LCI's, managing to unload 6 companies without any opposition other than some very annoying reefs near the shore. Thus two waves hit the ground uncontested, but danger did lurk in the skies above. 6 Ki-43 Osca'rs and 3 Ki-51 Sonia's took off from Lae at 7am and 4 minutes later the Oscars began strafing 7 LCI's carrying the 2/23rd battalion and its division HQ while the Sonia's bombed two LCI's. One of the bombs crashed through the main deck of LCI 339 just forward of its pilot house setting the ship on fire before it began listing to port taking on water. The LCI ran ashore and was abandoned by the crew, 10 of which were wounded. Another bomb narrowly missed LCI 341 exploding near the bottom of the vessel, blowing a large hole amidships on her port side flooding two compartments. The list to port was corrected and the LCI managed to run ashore and would be salvaged later. 9 men were killed with 45 wounded during the attack. 8 Boomerangs and 2 Wirraways came over from Tsili Tsili to aid the next echelons as they began to unload units. The LSTs began clearing the landing area by 11am. The LCT's took a lot longer to unload than expected, they had arrived at 8am but only cleared the area over the course of 6 hours. Meanwhile, General Imamura frantically launched a strong air raid towards Law consisting of 12 Betty's, 8 Val's and 61 Zero's. The 81 aircraft strong party departed Rabaul, but was soon discovered by destroyer USS Reid lingering off Cape Cretin at around 1pm. Reid's report gave enough time for the allies to toss a counter air wave to intercept them consisting of 40 Lightnings and 20 Thunderbolts. A few vals tried to bomb Reid in the meantime, resulting in all misses. The interception saw the loss of 23 Japanese aircraft, mostly Zero's while only two lightnings were shutdown. However many Japanese aircraft continued towards Morobe where they descended upon the 6th echelons LSTs just off Cape Ward Hunt at around 2pm. These were carrying the Australian 2/4th independent company and the 2/2nd machine gun battalion, just 33 kms east of Morobe heading for Lae. 6 Vals managed to land two bomb hits on LST-473 and the Betty's one torpedo hit against LST-471. This killed 51, wounded 67 mostly from the 2/4th independent company. The Japanese lost an additional 4 Zeros and 3 betty's while 15 other aircraft were badly damaged. The remaining LSTs continued on towards Red beach, while some were ordered to divert course to assist the damaged LST's from the aerial attacks. Destroyer Humphrey's would grab the wounded and bring them back to Buna. Everything arrived on schedule by 23:00. Thus Admiral Barbey had managed to land 7800 personnel, of which 3780 were combat troops, alongside 3300 tons of supplies. After the landings, engineers at Red and Yellow beach got to work constructing roads while Windeyer's combat troops began to extend their perimeter. By nightfall the 2/17th battalion had crossed the Buso river and by 7:30am the 2/7th field company had built a single-girder bridge across it. To defend against further aerial raids upon the beachheads, a battery of the 2/4th light anti-aircraft regiment landed two detachments at Red and yellow beach. By mid afternoon the 2/13th had extended the yellow beach perimeter around 3000 meters inland and 2000 meters east to west. Lt Colonel Colvin's 2 companies of the 2/13th advanced inland towards the Bulu plantation sending the 30 Japanese who tried to contest them earlier further north towards some hills. Aside from them there were no signs of other enemy, by 2pm patrols of the 2/13th and 2/15th were forded the Suez river between Bulu river and Red beach. Colonel Grace's 2/15th battalion were given the task of protected the beachhead, while Lt Colonel Simpson's 2/17th began to advance towards the Buso river at 9am. Two companies of Major broadbent advanced northwest across the Buso going another 4 miles finding no enemy. Two companies of the 2/13th would also advance east along a track going towards Hopoi where opposition was expected. General Wootten wanted to speed up the advance towards Lae to prevent the Japanese from any time to organize a defense east of the Busu river. Wootten gave Brigadier Whiteheads 2/17th battalion the task of passing through the 20th brigade and continued the advance towards Buso river. Over on the other side Admiral Fujita began deploying his forces in a defensive perimeter between the Markham and Busu Rivers, with most of his naval units taking up positions on the right bank of the Busu while Companies 10 and 11 of the 115th regiment, around 127 men were sent to hold Singaua point. General Shoge rushed over as quickly as he could to take command at Lae, while General Nakano sent Major Mukai Masatake to assume command of the frontline actions. The next day the Australian advance going east and west continued still with no opposition. Simpson's men went west, advancing through some horrible wet and boggy terrain. To simpsons north was Broadbents men who got lost for a little while fording rivers until they made it to the Singaua plantation. Meanwhile the 2/23rd and 2/24th battalions followed behind them led by Lt Colonel Gillespie and Major McRae. They bivoucked south of Apo where Whitehead placed his HQ. During the morning hours, Brigadier Bernard Evan's 24th brigade embarked on 20 LCI's over at Buna and began to land at Red Beach by nightfall. As the Lae operation was moving along full swing, it was now time for Z-day. A B-24 liberator crashed on take-off after clipping a branch and rammed into 5 troop trucks full of soldiers waiting to debark. Its 4 500 lb bombs exploded tossing 2800 gallons of fuel in all directions killing 59 and wounding 92. It was a horrible disaster and a bad omen. The armada of C-47's were being escorted by 48 Lightnings, 12 Airacobras and 48 Thunderbolts a very intimidating force. Generals Kenney, Vasey and MacArthur accompanied the armada aboard some flying fortresses. Kenney said to MacArthur “They're my kids and I want to see them do their stuff”, apparently MacArthur hesitated for a moment before replying “you're right George We'll both go. They're my kids too”. Kenney worried about the consequences of both of them being killed by “some five dollar a month Jap aviator”. MacArthur only worried about becoming airsick and throwing up in front of his colleagues. General Vasey who had witnessed German paratroops in action over Crete back in 1941, watched the drop from above and would write to his wife “I wanted to see paratroops land from the top rather than the bottom as in Crete”. Over 302 aircraft crossed the Owen Stanley range. Heading the armada at 1000 feet were B-25 strafers carrying 8 .50 caliber gun in their noses and 60 frag bombs in their bomb bays. Behind that at about 500 feet were A-20's ready to lay smoke as frag bombs exploded. At around 2000 feet behind them were 96 C-47's carrying the paratroops, supplies and artillery. To all their sides were the fights sitting at around 7000 feet. Following this were B-17's loaded up with 300 lb parachute bombs to be drop ordered by paratroopers. Then even further behind that were B-24's and more B-17's who were going to hit Japanese defensive positions at Heath's plantation and other points between Nadzab and Lae. Air attacks against the defenses would be followed up with smokescreens. At 10:22am the C-47's began to drop their paratroopers over their target zones. Each C-47 dropped its men in less than 10 seconds and the whole regiment was unloaded in 4 and a half minutes. The whole of the Nadzab area was landed upon and taken uncontested. Watching it unfold Kenney was impressed going on the record to say “the operation really was a magnificent spectacle. I truly don't believe that another air force in the world could have put this over as perfectly as the 5th Air Force did.” By 2pm, the 2/2nd Pioneer battalion crossed Markham arriving at Nadzab during the night. The 2/2nd Pioneer battalion began hacking and burning kunai grass off the airstrip to clear it up before successfully extending it from 1500 feet to 3300 feet. This would allow the 871st airborne engineer battalion to land so they could construct two additional airstrips. On September 7th, Vasey's 7th division began to land at Nadzab, only facing some challenging weather. C Company of the 24th battalion led by Captain Arthur Duell departed Deep creek on the 4th to attack Markham point acting as a diversion. Lt Fred Child's 14th platoon performed the initial attack from the southwest followed up by Lt Maurie Yong's 13th platoon who advanced down a ridge near the river. Two other platoons covered them as they all blasted mortars over the Japanese camp and unleashed 2 vickers guns on Labu island. 100 men of the 6th company, 238th regiment were taken by surprise. They had dug in behind some barbed wire for several months astride a razorback ridge along the Markham river. Their surprise wore off quickly as they unleashed heavy fire killing 12 men and wounding 6. The allies were forced to pull back after killing 18 Japanese. Further to the south, General Nakano was facing some pressure from General Milford's 5th division. During late August the Japanese had been fighting tooth and nail to hold their last defensive line in front of Salamaua. The Japanese forward positions had been hit by heavy artillery for a long time, but their defenders were hunkering down. Brigadier Monaghan elected to send a company to cross the western slopes of Charlie Hill and occupy a position on its northern portion, thus isolating the Japanese. This was the same strategy that had been employed against Mount Tambu. However Milford instead elected to toss a frontal assault, believing his artillery support would win the day. Zero hour for the assault was to be 3:20pm, from 11:30am until then artillery smashed the Japanese positions with 2000 shells, 450 mortar bombs and 6000 rounds of machine gun fire. When zero hour hit, D company of the 42nd battalion began their climb. Lt Garland's 17th platoon led the way, immediately receiving enemy first after the first 100 yards. Two other platoons crossed around to the left and right only getting a few yards further. The approach to Charlie Hill from the west was a very steep thickly clad razorback. Garland's men had not even seen the enemy and 5 of them were hit. Two hours after the attack had begun, platoon leaders signaled down the slope that no progress could be made, it was simply too steep. Up above there were 4 well camouflaged machine gun nests unleashing havoc. The assault was canceled and the men withdrew. Over to the west, the 47th battalion launched two attacks against the Kunai spur. Captain Aubrey McWatter's A company began their attack at dusk on august 28th. Sergeant George Pitt's 9th platoon took the left as Barnett's 7th platoon to the right. The assault fell into hand to hand combat quickly, Barnett was twice wounded and his men were forced back. Pitt's platoon ran into heavy machine gun fire from a well dug in log bunker and were forced back having two deaths and two wounded. On the 30th, Major Idris Leach's C company made their attack but were forced back by heavy fire. Major Idris Leach and Sergeant Bill Eisenmenger lost their lives in that attack. On that same day, there was a request to increase artillery fire. 200 shells were lobbed upon the enemy the next day, then on september 1st after 5 hours of shelling, two platoons attacked again. They were supported by vickers guns as men scrambled to climb the ridge to its crest. The artillery softened up the enemy somewhat. Platoon leader Lt Ernest Anzac Walters died leading his men in the bloody carnage. They achieved the objective by the late afternoon sending many Japanese fleeing from their positions. Owen guns and grenades broke them. Around 60 dead Japanese were found on the Kunai spur, around 40 of them had been killed by artillery fire, some pillboxes took direct hits. The Kunai Spur was renamed Lewis Knoll after Captain Eric Lewis of B Company. To the east, after seizing Lokanu ridge, Milford ordered Lt Colonel Jack Amies 15th battalion to head right of the Americans and penetrate the Japanese defensive line at all cost without delay. At first light on the 31st, Lt Doug Matthew's 18th platoon of D company, reached a junction between Lokanu ridge and a razorback. The Japanese hit Matthew's men with mortar and machine gun fire. Despite the heavy fire, Matthew and his men crept up 75 yards, but at 12:50pm were met with a shower of grenades from enemies on a crest above them. Matthew decided to wait for reinforcements and artillery support before attacking up Scout ridge. Lt George Matthew's, brother Lt doug Matthews arrived with the 14th platoon after 1pm and organized a company attack, despite still not having artillery support nor mortars. Lt Doug led the 18th platoon forward, leading to 11 men becoming wounded, Doug likewise received a shot to the leg. George helped his brother get down the ridge and Doug told him before being carried off for care “About six weeks, I think”. George would later recall “I didn't worry too much about it. I thought on of the family has got out of it”. Lt Doug Matthew died the next day. The 15th battalion forces kept up the pressure sending C company, but they were repulsed likewise. On September 1st, Colonel Davidson sent B company around the west side of Charlie Hill intending to cut off the Japanese supply lines. Captain Frank Greer's B Company crossed a creek during the night and advanced 300 meters from the crest of Charlie Hill. They set up an ambush position, unknowingly 30 yards below the enemy perimeter on Charlie Hill. The Japanese tossed multiple counterattacks while A Company managed to establish their own ambush position nearby in some thick undergrowth on the eastern side of Charlie Hill. On September 4th, A Company joined up with B Company to the west, completely sealing off the enemy position. Meanwhile Captain Yates C company was advancing northwards from Lewis Knoll. Their patrols ran into Japanese losing many men in the process. At 7:15am the next morning they came across a razorback running towards a strongly held enemy position on Twin Smiths. Captain Yates led an attack upon the Twin Smiths, but the enemy fire was too much, forcing him to withdrew.  After the defeat at Arnold's Crest, Brigadier Hammer had resorted to harassing actions against the enemy. The 2/7th were hitting Arnold's Crest while Major Warfe's 58/59th and 2/3rd independent company were hitting rough hill. Hammer sent Lt Garland's men from C Platoon to infiltrate the Japanese rear and to carry out a diversionary ambush. On September 3rd, Lt Garland ordered Arnold's Crest to be shelled, so that the noise would cover his men as they began their infiltration. They departed at 9am, moving along the Buiris Creek between the Japanese positions. They ambushed a supply track at 11am, just when the shelling stopped. Garland recalled ‘My men made their way forward through the jungle canopy like deadly green ghosts. I never heard a sound as they moved forward and adopted their ambush positions.' Garland positioned his men on the southern side of the track with around ten meters between them, covering more than a thousand meters of track, watching while hiding; a difficult balance. Garland noted ‘You soon learn to look through the jungle, by slightly moving your head from side to side, whilst preserving your concealment.' After two hours of waiting, Garland's men killed 8 Japanese in an ambush, after this they pulled out. Finally, Scout Ridge was devastated with artillery and mortar bombardment, allowing Lt George Matthews men to gain its crest where his brother had died. On September 3rd, detachments of the 5th Sasebo and 2nd Maizuru SNLF marines counterattacked and forced the australians off. While this was occurring, Lt Tom Cavenagh's A company of the 15th battalion seized the unoccupied Lokanu knoll. They crept up the knoll under artillery support to find freshly dug trenches, weapon-pits and foxholes all recently abandoned. By nightfall the SNLF marines attempted to reoccupy the positions but were forced to dig in on the northern side of Lokanu Knoll. On the night of september 4th, General Adachi learnt of the Lae landings and immediately ordered General Nakano to withdrew from Salamaua and to assemble at Lae by september 20th. Japanese forces were going to withdrew towards Kaiapit or Sio through Salawaket. Adachi sent the main body of the 20th division to defend Finschhafen, resulting in the suspension of the construction of the Madang-Lae road. The Nakai detachment of Major General Nakai Masutaro currently at Bogadjim was ordered to defend Kaiapit and hold back the allied advance to help Nakano's withdrawal. Nakano ordered the 5th Sasebo and 2nd Maizuru SNLF to cover the movement by barge of the 3rd battalion 102nd regiment towards Law, departing on september 6th. Meanwhile the 51st division prepared a fighting withdrawal and at Lae, General Shoge and Major Mukai just arrived to grab command of the IJA forces. Shoge's attitude was considered to be the ideal representative of a commander. He often went a day or two without opening his mouth, he was a fighting man who did not display signs of joy or sorrow, nor pleasure or pain. Holding the enemy back to the east and west, even within close range, he remained cool. He never lost his composure and he was a large influence upon his officers and men. Shoge concentrated the whole strength of the Lae garrison to block the superior allied forces while Mukai personally led platoons and companies to direct the fighting at the frontlines. Meanwhile on september 6th, Wootten's men continued their advance. The 2/13th battalion reached the Buhem river and captured the overgrown Hopoi airfield. The 2/23rd battalion moved past the 2/17th arriving to the left bank of the Buiem river. From there they pushed back some Japanese to the Singaua plantation. By the late afternoon the Japanese were being hit from the east and north, forcing them to retreat. Ever since D-day, the Japanese had been tossing air raids against Red Beach, the Aluki track and the amphibian craft plying between the beaches, but they were unable to hinder the movement of men and supplies. At midnight on the 6th, 5 LCV's and 3 LCMS landed supplies from Red Beach to Apo village alleviating the severe ration and ammunition shortage for the forward troops and shortening supply lines. New plans were formed. On September 7th, the 24th brigade would takeover the costal advance while Whiteheads 26th brigade would advance further inland up the Burep River. The climax for the Lae-Salamaua campaign was nearly at hand. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. Operation Postern finally kicked off and the amphibious invasion seems to be a resounding success. The Japanese were completely bamboozled and now frantically tried to get men in the Salamaua area over to defend Lae, but would they lose both as a result of it? 

Last time we spoke about the beginning of mop up operations after the fall of Munda, the amphibious invasion of Vella Lavella and the fall of Kiska. New Georgia was a lost cause for the Japanese with the fall of Munda and now all efforts were being made to perform a withdrawal while buying time for forces to be brought over to places like Bougainville. Admiral Halsey ultimately choose to bypass Kolombangara and targeting Vella Lavella, which saw a successful amphibious invasion with a minor naval scuffle during the process. Then the Americans and Canadians invaded Kiska at long last. Although there were numerous reports that the island was abandoned it was decided to go forward with the invasion, at minimum it would be good training for the men. All they found were booby traps and some abandoned dogs as they ushered in the conclusion to the aleutian islands campaign.  This episode is Into the Central Pacific Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.    So its been nearly a year since the start of the allied offensive in the Pacific. Way back when the Japanese were trying to recover from the Midway disaster, the Americans had no idea if they could manage a major land victory. For nearly a year, the allied campaigns in New Guinea and the Solomons showcased what both sides were capable of. But the US Navy wanted something else, they wanted a drive through the central pacific. Now to begin a thrust into the central pacific meant performing two parallel Pacific campaigns north and south of the equator. Admiral Nimitz did not yet possess the naval, specifically carrier forces required to wage a central pacific offensive, hell legions of troops required months of amphibious training, is was an enormous feat. Admiral Halsey likewise never ceased calling for reinforcements to carry his fight through the central and northern solomons.  Ever since the Casablanca Conference, Admirals King and Nimitz had been analyzing the idea of a central thrust in the pacific. They were looking specifically at a thrust in the direction of Truk-Guam and to hit the Marshall Islands. The victory over Guadalcanal had allowed the allies to secure lines of communication and supply to Australia and King presumed Rabaul would fall in 1943. On June 10th King began demanding hard deadlines for a central pacific campaign stating “In order that effective momentum of offensive operations can be attained and maintained, firm timing must be set up for all areas.” The joint chiefs of staff four days later told Nimitz to prepare an invasion of the Marshall Islands with a tentative sailing date of November 15th, 1943. As for the direct thrust, King declared  "establishing a base in the northwestern Marshalls and then proceeding to Truk and the Marianas." To pull this off MacArthur was expected to release the 1st marine division in time to participate in the operation with most of Halsey's naval and amphibious forces as well. As you can imagine MacArthur was outraged and objected the demands of his Cartwheel campaign to preclude any transfer of troops or ships from his theater to Nimitz. MacArthur wanted covering support from the Pacific Fleet's new fast carrier task forces to help raid Rabaul, Truk and other Japanese bases on a southern route. Halsey likewise was anxious about withdrawing aircraft from the south pacific area to support operations north of the equator. He warned Nimitz on June 25th that if airpower were diverted from the drive on Rabaul “it would seriously jeopardize our chances of success at what appears to be the most critical stage of the campaign.” Without borrowing forces from the south pacific, Nimitz could not realistically tackle the Marshalls until early 1944 and many members of the planning staff counseled patience. They argued to Nimitz, the new offensive should await the arrival of a large fleet of Essex carriers. By February or March of 1944, they predicted a much expanded 5th fleet could simply steam into the Marshalls and seize 4 or 5 of the largest Japanese bases simultaneously. If the combined fleet came out to fight, such an American force would willingly and confidently give them battle. But King simply wanted action in 1943, he insisted the northern line of attack be opened before the final assault on Rabaul. This would prevent the enemy from concentrating their defenses against either prong of the westward advance. Enemy territory simply had to be taken, somewhere in the central pacific by the end of the year.  There was a lot of arguing going about. The joint chiefs had clearly intimated that the Philippines were to be approached through the central pacific, but MacArthur concluded that a drive through the Marshalls and Carolines would have to occur without land-based air support, thus it would be slow and extremely costly to naval power and shipping. MacArthur argued the central pacific route was unwise and thought after Rabaul was captured it should be southwest pacific forces advancing along the north coast of New Guinea and onwards to the Philippines. This would require the neutralization of various islands like Palaus and others in the Banda and Arafura seas to protect their flanks. This long range plan that he prepared was designated RENO.  Now all of this of course was intended to cut Japan off from her vast riches in the Dutch East Indies, the thing keeping her war machine alive. The British also had their own desires who applied much pressure onto their American allies, prompting General Marshall to assure them that a Gilberts-Marshalls-Carolines campaign would be undertaken “with the resources available in the theater”. DuringQuadrant conference, the British chiefs had agreed to back King's demand for resources in the central Pacific in return for more forces against Nazi Germany. However during the Trident conference in May, which was not concerned so much with the Pacific strategy, the joint chiefs of staff submitted a plan titled “the strategic plan for the defeat of Japan” which called for a large, sustained air offensive against the home islands in preparation for an invasion. For this all to occur, China had to be maintained, and that meant the Americans and British would need to right their way into China finding a good secure port to move materials properly, most likely this would be Hong Kong. In the meantime the Americans, British and Chinese would work together to recapture Burma to try and drive through the strait of Malacca to Hong Kong via a series of amphibious operations. The Americans would also attempt a drive through the Celebes sea to Hong Kong from the central pacific aided by some subsidiary efforts from the south and southwest pacific areas, good luck getting a penny from MacArthur.  The Central Pacific was the most advantageous and logical route because it was shorter than the southern route, it would require less ships, less troops, less supplies and the bases in the Marshalls, Marianas and Carolines would isolate Japan from her overseas empire. The Japanese would only be able to mount limited air and ground forces on the islands in the central pacific, but nonetheless the American planners were forced to make twin drives along the central and southern axes. It has been argued, President FDR was swayed by Marshall's insistent demands for a southern push, because MacArthur held considerable political weight and could have been made a republican nominee for presidency in 1944. There were positives to running twin operations of course. For one thing it would prevent the Japanese from being able to guess the time and place of forthcoming advances keeping them off balance. It also allowed for opportunities for mutual support. Some of the operations would require a behemoth amount of resources, take for example the estimations they ran for the capture of the Bismarck Archipelago which was required to secure the line of communications to Australia and provide access to the Celebes sea. They estimated it would require 7 divisions, 5 of which needed to be amphibious units. If Rabaul fell or was neutralized, perhaps the division numbers would be less. The Marshall operation would require two reinforced amphibious divisions, 4 heavy bombardment and two fighter groups of land based aircraft. On top of that was the naval aspect, they estimated that they needed four battleships, three more auxiliary carriers, twelve cruisers, sixty-three destroyers, twenty-four attack transports, forty-four tank landing ships (LST's), plus landing craft. Garrison forces would include one reinforced division, 10 defense battalions, 545 planes, and 18 motor torpedo boats. For the Carolines, the Combined Chiefs estimated that they would require 3 reinforced amphibious divisions, 2 heavy bomber groups, 10 carriers of the Enterprise and Essex classes, 7 auxiliary carriers, 4 modern battleships, 9 old battleships, 31 cruisers, 108 destroyers, 20 submarines, 45 attack transports, 15 attack cargo ships, 6 LSD's , 3 headquarters ships, and miscellaneous auxiliaries. To garrison the islands would take two reinforced divisions and three defense battalions, plus aircraft. Talk about a shopping list. By the end of the year it was expected that one Marine and 3 Army divisions would be allocated to the Central Pacific while the South Pacific would gain 2 marines, 5 US Army and 1 New Zealand division and in the southwest pacific 4 US infantry, 1 US airborne, 1 US marine and 11 Australian divisions. So calculated all that, the Joint chiefs estimated 2 more divisions would be needed for the Marshalls, 2 more for the Carolines and 3 more for New Guinea. The strategic plan got the stamp of approval by the combined chiefs of staff on May 22nd. For the planned central pacific offensive, Nimitz decided his first objective would be the Marshall Islands. Their seizure was essential to extend the line of communication to the Celebes sea and to shorten the routes to Australia. From the Marshalls, land-based aircraft could support naval operations against the enemy's communication lines and there was always the possibility that by hitting the Marshalls, this would lure the combined fleet out for a fight. By July 20th, it was decided that instead of directly hitting the Marshalls, which would be extremely costly requiring a large force, they would instead capture Nauru and the Gilbert Islands as a preliminary springboard to invade the Marshalls. There had been two competing suggestions debated at CINCPAC HQ. Captain Forrest Sherman the chief of staff to Vice admiral John Henry Towers advocated to recapture Wake Islands and employ it as a springboard to invade the Marshalls. Wake was around 500 miles south of the Marshalls. Admiral Spruance favored opening a campaign south and east where the fleet could count on greater land-based air support from rear bases in the south pacific. He was the one advocating to invade the Gilberts, which were 600 miles southeast of the Marshalls. Spruance persuaded Nimitz who persuaded King thus, the Gilberts won the day. Code named Operation Galvanic, was the offensive to simultaneously invade the Ellice Islands, Gilbert Islands and Nauru by November 15th 1943. For Galvanic, Nimitz would have at his disposal all surface forces of the Pacific Fleet, the air forces of the pacific excluding those in the south and southwest pacific areas, elements of the 7th air force, the 2nd marine division of Major General Julian Smith over in New Zealand currently performing amphibious training, 3 aviation engineer or construction battalions, a port battalion and 3 marine defense battalions. The 7th air force led by Major General Willis Hale had already carried out some reconnaissance and bombing missions against Nauru and the Gilberts back in January, February and April. In spite of some heavy interception they managed to hit the runway on Nauru and a local phosphate plant as well as some installations on Tarawa. The 7th air force were utilizing air bases on Canton and Funafuti which were the only ones in range of the Gilberts. To seize the Ellice islands and build new airfields, Nimitz ordered the 5th and 7th defense battalions and 2nd airdrome battalion accompanied by the 16th naval construction battalion to conduct neutralization and reconnaissance. Nimitz sought to build new airfields at Nukufetau and Nanomea which were around 600 miles south and 350 miles east of Tarawa. On August the 18th an advance survey party landed at Nanomea determining it to hold no enemy presence thus the first elements of the 7th defense battalion began occupying it 10 days later. On August the 22nd an advance party of the 2nd Airdrome battalion landed at Nukufetau finding no enemy presenced allowing the remainder of the battalion to follow suit 5 days later. Transforming the atolls into air bases was rapid work. By September 7th a 5000 foot airstrip was operational on Nanomea, by the end of the month a full squadron of aircraft were operating from it. Over on Nukufetau work was slower, but its strip would be operation by October 9th. Back on August 11th, the 804th aviation engineer battalion was sent to develop Baker island, a already american held island 480 miles east of the Gilberts. They began their work on September 1st, taking a week to build a strip capable of supporting fighters. All of this gave Nimitz and Hale the bases they needed to prepare Operation Galvanic.   Now over in the southwest pacific, Generals MacArthur and Blamey were continuing their planned invasion of Lae codenamed Operation Postern. By early 1943, MacArthur had devised plans that made Blamey the commander of “allied land forces” only in name. As we have seen, the creation of the Alamo Force led by General Krueger was MacArthurs attempt at seizing overall command. This led Blamey to gradually realized his only functions would be that of the commander of Australian military forces. MacArthur would reconstitute the United States Army Forces in the Far East USAFFE, for his command in the Philippines with himself as its commander. Now the original date for operation Postern was August 1st and it was to have two stages: the first was an amphibious assault neat the Lae coast and the second was an air-ground operation against Nadzab airfield to its west, this would prevent the enemy from reinforcing Lae overland.    The Amphibious operation would be carried out by General Vasey's 7th division, who would depart Milne Bay and move north of Buna to land near Lae utilizing small landing craft. Admiral Barbey estimated it would require 65 LCVPS (landing craft, vehicle personnel or Higgins boats) and LCTs from the 2nd engineer special brigade. To train for the operation the 7th would be sent to trinity beach near Cairns. However continuous outbreaks of malaria led it being believed the unit could not be used without endangering the civilian population. Major General George Wooten's 9th division not yet exposed to the conditions on Green Hell and malaria free ended up taking the amphibious role. After two weeks of amphibious training with higgins boats. The 9th moved to Milne bay by August 12th and would be followed by General Heavy's units who would help further train them at Morobe.    Now I had mentioned the second part was an air-ground operation, originally it was to consist of the 2/503rd american parachute battalion to take the airfield. Then the 25th and 21st brigades of the 7th division were to cross the Markham river and assist the parachute battalion to occupy the area. But it would turn out, when they arrived to Markham, the Australians first had to advance through the Bulldog road to reach Wau, and although a ton of work had been done on it the Bulldog road had not reached Markham river yet. At first General Berryman boldly said to General Kenney that he would be him a bottle of whisky that a jeep could simply cover the gap to the road by august the 1st, he lost the bet. Thus it was decided transport aircraft would be required to take the 7th division directly from Port Moresby into the overgrown landing ground at Nadzab. The parachute battalion would not receive any support from Markham. MacArthur decided to instead employ the full 503rd parachute regiment led by COlonel Kenneth Kinsler to hit Nadzab on August 8th. Now thanks in a large part to cooperation between Generals Vasey, Herring, Whitehead and Kenney the planning for the operation went well. Extensive air and land reconnaissance of the area was the key to success. With all the preparation done, D-day for the 9th division's amphibious assault was scheduled for September 1st, Z day for the 7th divisions operation against Nadzab would be September 2nd. Like all good operations, a diversion was going to be implemented. General Savige's forces had been conducting a series of attacks in the Salamaua area for months. The “Salamaua magnet” had successfully convinced General Nakano the allies intended to hit Salamaua. Nakano also believed holding Salamaua would keep Lae safe. General Adachi would go on the record to state, orders given to him and other forces was to hold Salamaua as long as possible, probably until the last man if it came down to it. Adachi knew if Salamaua fell, Lae was pretty much a lost cause. The irony of course was this all led to troops being pulled away from Lae to bolster Salamaua, when Lae was in fact the target.  Air supremacy over the Huon Gulf was going to be a necessity for Operation Postern to succeed. Generals Berryman and Kenney needed to acquire new airfields that would be used to neutralize Wewak and Madang, two key Japanese air bases. The allies began building airfields at Benabena and Tsili Tsili which could act as advanced fighter bases and refueling points. Benabena already had a functioning airstrip, but Whitehead wanted to develop it further, Kenney was concerned as he knew the Japanese were aware of the site. Kenney wanted to divert the enemy's attention away from the airfield being built at Tsili Tsili which the Japanese did not know about yet. The Japanese were tossing wave after wave of air raids against Benabena, doing minimal damage. Meanwhile a military road was being constructed from Bogadjim on the northern coast up the valley of Mindjim river to Yaula and Yokopi and it was intended to extend past the Finisterre range into the Ramu Valley. On August 1st the New Guinea force HQ estimated the road would reach Ramu Valley within 8 weeks. THe development of the road and other activity in the Ramu valley was drawing attention from the Japanese, thus the 2/2nd independent company as sent to reinforce the 2/7th at Benabena. As this occurred, the secret construction work at Tsili Tsili raged on using some innovative ideas. The construction workers were using camouflage and careful timing of flights to hide the existence of Tsili Tsili's airfield, and managing to do this successfully for two months. An enormous amount of air transport and equipment was allocated for the task. The 871st airborne engineers battalion were sent in to hammer the job out and soon 3 dry weather runways were operational by september. Over on the Japanese side, they were reorganizing their air forces in New Guinea. After receiving alarming reports of enemy airfields being constructed at Mount Hagen and Benabena, knowing full well these would threaten their airfields at Wewak and Madang, it was decided the air strength of New Guinea would be bolstered by the 7th air division of Lt General Sudo Einosuke. From June 19th onwards, aircraft of the 7th division began arriving at Wewak from the Dutch East Indies. The 6th air division had moved its HQ from Rabual to Wewak on July 9th of 1943, 324 aircraft strong. The 7th air division brought another 156 aircraft, alongside this the 4th air army was brought over to Rabaul on August 6th placed under the command of General Imamura's 8th area army. Additionally to support the defense of Wewak and Madang, General Adachi was planning to toss 3000 soldiers under Lt General Katagiri Shigeru's 20th division against Benabena while Lt General Mano Goro's 41st division would occupy Mount Hagen. Such operations were scheduled to begin in early september. A detachment of the 30th independent engineer regiment of Lt Kitamoto Masamichi were sent over to Kaiapit alongside patrols further into the Ramu valley. They gradually occupied Dumpu and Wesa. But the increasing allied threat to Salamaua and Lae prompted Adachi to postpone the Benabena attack until August 1st and as a result Lae's airbase was being abandoned. Since early july, Lae was facing a substantial issue maintaining aviation fuel, it had been a point of refueling for aircraft going between Rabaul and other airfields like Madang and Wewak. Alongside this, Lae was within allied medium bomber range, and the threat prompted the Japanese to build 3 new airfields on the northwestern coast of New Guinea at But, Dagua and the Boram Plantation. It was the 20th and 41st divisions who ended up providing most of the labor to construct these airfields. On August 14th Tsili Tsili saw its first two squadrons of P-39 Airacobras of the 35th fighter group led by Lt Colonel Malcolm Moore. These arrived just in time to meet the beginning enemy attacks. Japanese aircraft had finally spotted the secret airfield during some reconnaissance flights on August 11th. On the morning of August 15th, 7 Ki-48 Lilly's escorted by 36 Ki-43 Oscars attacked Tsili Tsili. The bombers were intercepted immediately and all were shot down by 26 Airacobras and 3 Lightnings. However the Oscars managed to shoot down two C-47's of the 21st troop carrier squadron. The other C-47's scrambled to escape back to Port Moresby by flying at treetop level. The allied fighters then intercepted the Oscars lading to 3 Oscars being downed at the cost of 4 Airacobras. The following day saw another raid, but Thunderbolts and Lightnings intercepted the raiders downing some 15 Oscars. After receiving such a blow, the Japanese commanders at Wewak decided to conserve further air strength. Unbeknownst to them the situation was far more dire than they thought. You see the Japanese commanders did not believe the enemy fighters and medium bombers had the range to hit Wewak.  To geek out a bit, when such aircraft like Mitchells first arrived in Australia, they were equipped with a lower turret. Now when they began performing operations in New Guinea, it required low altitude flying and thus the turrets became useless, so they were removed and replaced with forward firing guns at the nose. General Kenney's air depot at Townsville working tireless to modify 172 Mitchells between July and September of 1943. The removal of the large turrets allowed for an additional square shaped 11,500 liter metal fuel tank to be installed, which was suspended by hooks from a bomb shackle. These fuel tanks gave the aircraft an extra two hours flying time, just enough to give them the range to hit Wewak. These tanks were very vulnerable to catching fire during combat or from crash landings so they were made dischargeable. A minor innovation, that made all the difference. On August 1th aerial photographs indicated the Japanese had 8 medium bombers, 31 light bombers, 69 fighters at Wewak and Boram plus 34 medium and 34 light bombs with 23 fighters at Dagua and But. Thus Kenney elected to hit them and he had at his disposal two heavy bomber groups the 43rd and 90th bomb groups with 64 bombers alongside two medium groups, the 3rd attack group and 38th bomb groups with 58 modified mitchells.  Kenney's plan was to toss 8 squadrons of heavy bombers for night raids against Wewaks 4 airfields followed up by 5 squadrons of Mitchells. Fighter could refuel at Tsili Tsili to help escort and boy would they, an unprecedented 99 fighter escorts would take part in the raids. On the night of August 16th the first raid occurred seeing 12 B-17 and 38 Liberators take off from Port Moresby, all but two reached Wewak by midnight. For 3 hours Colonels Harry Hawthorne and Aruther Rogers led the 43rd and 90th bombardment groups to pound the 4 airfields causing tremendous damage. Countless aircraft tried to take off the next day at Boram only to fail due to damage. The next morning, two squadrons of Mithcells of Lt COlonel Brian O'Neill's 38th bomb group left Port Moresby to hit Dagua and But while two squadrons of Colonel Donald Hall's 3rd attack group would hit Wewak and Boram. They would be employing some new toys, the first parachute retarded fragmentation bombs or also called Parafrags. They had been developed from standard 10 kg fragmentation bombs which were carried in a honeycomb rack in the bomb bay. A small parachute slowed and straightened out the course of the bomb allowing the bomber to get out of the blast range before it exploded. Further work was also going into the development of “daisy-cutter” bombs, which were bombs wrapping with wire to iron rods onto them to produce a ground level fragmentation effect when used with a ground proximity fuse. Nerd stuff.    The 3rd group bombers ended up catching some newly arrived Japanese aircraft perfectly lined up on each side of the runways. The Mitchells strafed them before dropping 786 10 kg paragraph bombs, annihilating 60 aircraft. Meanwhile the 38th group Mitchells faced some issues discharging their auxiliary fuel tanks, leading to only 3 bombers reaching Dagua and none to But. The 3 who reached Dagua strafed and low level bombed it with 105 ten kg parafrags destroying and damaged at least 17 aircraft and intercepting a single Oscar. Not a bad haul at all for just 3 Mitchells. The following day, Kenney tried to repeat the raids, but this time only half of the 49 heavy bombers reached their targets and the bombing was quite inaccurate. However, most of the 62 Mitchell's reached the target this time, but they would be pounced upon by Japanese fighters and anti-aircraft fire from an enemy that was waiting for them. A flight led by Major Ralph Cheli, commanding the 405th bomb squadron was jumped by nearly a dozen Oscars. Cheli's plane was badly hit, his right engine and wing catch fire. Yet despite this Cheli led his flight across Dagua airfield before crashing into the ocean. He was captured and sent to Rabaul where he would later be executed. For this brave action Cheli was awarded the Medal of Honor. In the end 15 Oscars were destroyed at the cost of 2 lightnings and 1 mitchell. Two additional raids were conducted on August 20th and 21st.   The 5th air force claimed to have destroyed 20 enemy aircraft on the 20th and 70th on the final day, half of which were shot down in air combat by the Lightnings. An estimated 174 Japanese aircraft were put out of action during these attacks, almost 90% of which came from Wewaks total air strength around 200 strong. Even before it had a chance to derail the battle for Lae, the 4th air army had been completely annihilated. Wewak was neutralized, the door was open to smash Lae. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. A ton of planning was raging on and now there was to finally be twin operations to thrust into the central pacific and south pacific. With some new toys, Kenney's airforces had all but smashed what the Japanese had created to defend Lae. Now the door was wide open for Lae to be assaulted.

"Things had been going too smoothly to continue as they were. It really was time we had another bout of applied chaos." In 1971 Spike Milligan published the first volume of his war memoirs: Adolf Hitler - My Part In His Downfall. The preface to it anticipates that it would be the first of a trilogy; in actual fact six further books were written over the next twenty years. Although AHMPIHD is shot through with Milligan's trademark humour there are moments of sadness and melancholy. Milligan writes: "There were the deaths of some of my friends, and therefore, no matter how funny I tried to make this book, that will always be at the back of my mind: but, were they alive today, they would have been the first to join in the laughter, and that laughter was, I'm sure, the key to victory." Joining Tyler to talk about this wonderful book is Walter Dunlop and together they tease out the highlights, including: Commanding Office 'Leather Suitcase' 'Postern blasts' Gunner Naze and the high jump Throwing a brick at the enemy Putting up a tent The unique way the soldiers kept their boots soft and supple Chamberlain doing Prime Minister impressions on the wireless 'Jankers' The sheer artistry of Gunner Plunger Bailey The faint stirrings of the Goon Show as Spike collaborates with Harry Edgington Playing jazz to keep sane And, of course, the BLOODY AWFUL Warsaw Concerto They also examine how the war informed Spike's worldview and subsequent career. If the war hadn't occurred, would we be talking about Spike Milligan today? Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall remained one of Milligan's proudest endeavours and as he wrote to his friend Robert Graves: "... It sold 30,000 copies and it had to reprint almost at once. I can't tell you how good it feels, for a person whose education ended at 14, to be a bestseller."

Last time we spoke about actions in New Guinea and the Japanese counteroffensive in Arakan. The good ol boys down unda were getting ready to launch a major offensive aimed to seize Lae and Salamaua. The Australian and American forces gradually built up enough strength to commence the offensive and high command decided to launch some feints, such as at Mubo to distract the Japanese from their real intentions. Over in Arakan, Irwins disaster was still paying dividends to the Japanese as General Koga launched a massive counterattack. Things were continuing to get worse for the British in Burma, though General Slim was beginning to make improvements. Lastly the British began a propaganda campaign to boost morale in the far east using the mad onion man Wingates recent adventure with the Chindits. Things were looking rough in the CBI theater.  This episode is the Operation Postern, the drive to Salamaua Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.    I just want to say before we begin, this episode will feel a bit like one of those old tv episodes that rehashes what happened during that season. You've heard me say it a few times, but because we do this series in the week by week format sometimes we get into these messy weeks where either not much occurs or too much occurs. Regardless this episode is about multiple ongoing operations that culminate into the drive upon Salamaua and for the sake of coherency I am going to have to summarize a lot of what occurred in the south west pacific area for early 1943.  General Blamey devised a plan to capture Lae, codenamed Operation Postern. General MacArthur approved of the plan, which was quite complex and reflected the growing power of the allied forces in the southwest pacific. Blamey moved to New Guinea to take overall charge, reverting Herring to commander of the 1st corps, responsible for tactical operations. The key to quick success lay in convincing General Adachi, that Salamaua was the primary target for any major offensive. To accomplish this, it was necessary for the Australian and American forces to press upon the Japanese around the Salamaua area, but not Salamaua.  Operation Postern was preceded by three simultaneous operations occurring in the South west pacific area and the south pacific area. Together the three operations helped set up the conditions necessary to allow for an amphibious landing at Lae, by tying up the Japanese ground, naval and airpower in the region alongside creating important feints. The invasion of New Georgia was the first of these operations carried out by Admiral Bull Halsey and the 1st raider battalion. That offensive codenamed operation Toenails took up a lot of the Japanese ground, sea and air forces and would gradually see the allies capturing Munda. The 2nd was operation Chronicle, the seizure of Kiriwina and Woodlark islands located just northeast of Milne Bay. With their seizure, the allies were able to create new forward airfields from which to launch air strikes against Rabaul and provide air cover for multiple other operations in the region. Lastly the third operation was to be an assault on Nassau Bay, which we will talk about a bit later. Now back to the ground forces.   The 8th Area Army at Rabaul sent General Adachi and the 18th army to secure important areas west of Lae and Salamaua and to do so an offensive was launched against Wau. This prompted the Australian high command to send Brigadier Moten and the 17th brigade over to defend Wau in January of 1943. The battle to defend was tough, but the allies were able to prolong the Japanese advance long enough to transport enough troops to save Wau. The Japanese were sent retreating over to the Mubo area, but instead of pursuing the enemy, Moten limited his men's actions to patrols. The New Guinea force wished to pursue the Japanese, but was prevented by logistical difficulties. As the Australians gathered more strength, the Japanese prepared a second attempt to capture Way. This time the Japanese planned to approach Wau from the north, building a road from Markham point into the snake river valley. From there the Japanese advance would hit Wau. The 51st division was earmarked for the task, but the battle of the Bismarck sea had caused devastating losses to the convoy bringing them over in March of 1943.  The battle of the Bismarck sea had pressed upon the Japanese high command the increasing allied airpower, leading them to reformulate their plans. The Japanese began to construct a road to compensate for their inability to transport men and materials to New Guinea via the sea. As the Japanese did this, on the other side, the allies now felt very secure at Wau and were willing to perform some offensives. General Savige's 3rd division was given command of the Wau-Bulolo area. For this task he had the 17th brigade, the 2/3rd, 25th and 2/7th independent companies. It was believed the Japanese had around 5500 men around Lae and Salamaua with around 6-8 thousand at Madang and 9- 11 thousand at Wewak. Savige was ordered not to attack Salamaua directly, so he decided to establish firm bases as far forward as possible to harass the Japanese, basically you can see this as forward offensive patrol actions. Now the Japanese had dug in some defensive positions in places called the Pimple, Green Hill and Observation Hill which were along the main track from Wau to Mubo. On April 24th, the 2/7th independent company were given a new mission; to clear the Japanese from the vicinity of Mubo. Moten approved a plan for the seizure of the Pimple and Green Hill, ordering Major Warfe and his 2/3rd company to harass the Japanese logistical routes in Mubo as a distraction as the 2/7th hit the Pimple. The Japanese had made the Pimple a nightmare for the allied forces. They had taken defensive positions on commanding ground allowing for concealed ambushes. They cleared firing lanes to enable their machine guns to gundown anyone who took a forward approach. By holding the high grounds they also thwarted the allies from utilizing grenades effectively.   On the morning of April 24, after 20 minutes of air attacks by Boston aircraft against Green Hill, Stony Creek, Observation Hill and Kitchen Creek, the offensive kicked off with a two pronged attack. The 2/7th would start from the Vicker's ridge track, moving in two columns: one going along the Jap track towards the Pimple; the other would move north along the Laws track, a very difficult and quite unknown trail to try an encircle the Pimple from the west. When the two columns got within 100 yards of the pimple, they were met with light machine gun fire and snipers. The Australians attempted an all out assault in the late afternoon, but were unable to gain any ground. The next morning 3 Bostons came roaring in to strafe and bomb Green Hill while allied artillery began to bombard the Pimple. Despite the increased firepower the Australians still were unable to dislodge the enemy with their proceeding assaults. It turns out the Australians had greatly underestimate the defensive capabilities of the Pimple position. Reconnaissance had failed to pinpoint the enemy positions prior to the offensive. A major lack of communication between the two columns because they had no telephone lines or wireless communications led to a lack of coordination, neither allied column knew the plight of the other. Runners were used, but they were too slow and extremely vulnerable to Japanese snipers. The offensive was quickly falling apart as the Japanese continued to reinforce their lines. Meanwhile Warfe's men conducted a number of raids and ambushes in the Missim area, Komiatum Hill and Bobdubi Ridge. Warfe then sent a patrol from Namling along the Bench Cut track to ambush the Japanese at the junction between the Francisco river and the Buirali Creek. The ambush was a large success leading to the deaths of 18 Japanese. Warfe tried to perform an identical operation on April 28th, but this time his men were ambushed by the Japanese at Goodview junctions suffering considerable casualties. As a result of the forward patrolling of Warfe's men, the allies had learned the Dobdubi ridge area was defended quite lightly. Having learnt this, Ware decided to order a second platoon to capture the northern part of the ridge on April 27th. By the end of the month Warfe had two platoons spread over the Bobdubi ridge area, with a 3rd platoon held in reserve at Missim.  Over in his headquarters, Moten now realized the offensive against the Pimple was far too costly and he decided the men should simply bypass it. However the commander in the field, General Savige continued to launch attacks. The reason why Savige pressed on was because on April 28th, one of his reconnaissance patrols found a position on Pimple unoccupied and kicked seized it before the Japanese could return to man it. Colonel Guinn on the ground there deduced the Japanese must have been expecting an airstrike and momentarily left their positions. He therefore elected to order another company led by Captain Leslie Tatterson brought forward to assault the pimple. This time however, the allies used deception. Instead of launching an airstrike and artillery against the Pimple they passed over it and bombarded Green Hill. The deception did not work as planned and Saviges men yet again were unable to make any ground against the pimple. By early May the 2/7th battalion had lost 12 men dead with 25 wounded against the pimple with no end in sight. Meanwhile on May 3rd, an offensive was launched against the northern part of the Bobdubi ridge. The Australians were able to  fight their way close to the mouth of the Francisco river, prompting the Japanese to pull up reinforcements in the form of 70 SNLF marines from Salamua. A battle was fought in a place called the South Coconuts on May 5th. The Australians performed encircling maneuvers, managing to surround large pockets of the Japanese whom they smashed with artillery. The Australians were met with 3 major counter attacks but held their ground successfully occupying another place called the Center Coconuts by May 7th. However the Japanese then performed another counterattack, utilizing mortars to great effect, pushing the Australians back. The Japanese further reinforced the area with 60 additional men coming up from Salamaua, but they were ambushed by the Australians at the North Coconuts location suffering 20 casualties.     On May 9th, Captain Tattersons men were struck a lethal blow when they ran into a Japanese booby trap along the Jap Track. The Japanese opened fire upon the Australians on the track and began to encircle them. Colonel Guinn led a small force along the track to break the encirclement while Tatterson's men resisted tenaciously against the Japanese. Tatterson's force had been completely surrounded by the afternoon of May 9th and were in a state of desperation. The Australians utilized booby-traps, fire control and mass grenade attacks to force the Japanese to give them breathing room. The next day the Japanese launched a fierce attack against Tatterson's rear. The Australians could hear Japanese officers screaming orders as their riflemen poured lead upon them. As the Japanese pressed upon them they were receiving 500 additional reinforcements from the 102nd and 115th regiments. Meanwhile the 3rd battalion of the 102nd regiment in Nassau bay received orders “to capture the high area on the right bank of the Buyawim River fork” to be done in coordination with the May 9th attacks. This action would have endangered the allied positions at Lababia camp, but luckily the Japanese commander decided instead to hold a defensive positions at the bank of the Bitoi mouth. This allowed Colonel Guinn to concentrate some of his forces at Lababia camp. By May 11th, a company of 60 men managed to break the Japanese encirclement of Tatterson's men. According to Tatterson, by 7am on the 11th, the Japanese had continued to fire heavily upon his force, but made no further attempts to advance. It seemed to him the Japanese were actually withdrawing and the increased rifle fire and mortars was a cover. Tattersons men had been battered, he himself was wounded. His force received 12 casualties and estimated they had inflicted 100 casualties upon the enemy with possibly 50 deaths. Having saved Tatterson, Guinn reorganized his forward units and began to dig in along the Jap track and Lababia camp. From May 15th onwards the 17th brigade focused on aggressive patrolling in all sectors. Aggressive patrols each day harassed the Japanese around the Pimple and Observation Hill. The Australians set up booby-traps, practically paralyzing the Japanese troop movements outside their trenches. General Okabe received some much needed reinforcements over the course of the week and began to launch some limited attacks against the south, central and north Coconut areas. Okabe's forces were repelled on the 12th and 13th, but things would greatly change on the 14th.  The 14th saw a heavy shelling of the Bobdubi ridge area before Okabe launched a full scale attack that overwhelmed the Australian defenders forcing them to make a fighting withdrawal from the north and central area further down in the south coconut area. General Nakano was displeased with his troops and issued an address of instruction of May 17th, it is as follows  "In the attack at Bobdubi, although a certain group was advancing on a height on the enemy's flank, instead of really carrying out the attack in such a way as to prepare the way for an assault by our main force, they went no further than a vain firing at the enemy with their weapons. The spiritual and physical strength which was worn down in the Wau campaign is at the present time still lower, but I believe it can easily be restored if the officers will take the initiative, set an example and command as leaders of their men." Despite Nakano's criticism, his men would take a lot of ground forcing the Australians further south, dangerously close to Warfe's headquarters. Warfe realized maintaining the position would lead to heavy casualties, so he pulled his force out and took up a position at Namling.  It was quite fortunate as the day after he made this decision, 20 Japanese dive bombers strafed and bombed the village of Bobdubi. This was part of a Japanese heavy air raid that began on May 15th, culminating in over 100 Japanese aircraft hitting multiple Australian positions over the course of a few days. Three heavy raids were performed, but these air attacks focused general far into the Australian rear, leaving the forward positions rather untouched. On may 17th and 18th large formations of Japanese aircraft performed a raid against Wau's airfield. Although the Australians ultimately were forced to withdraw from many forward positions, such as Warfe's units, they managed the ultimate objective of operation Postern, to take Japanese resources away from Mubo and Lae. They had inflicted numerous casualties upon the Japanese including against Major General Okabe who had stepped on a booby trap that put a bullet through his right foot. Okabe had to be evacuated on the night of may 16th as a result, flown back over to Rabaul. Command was handed over to Major General Muroya Chuichi of the 51st division. The battle for Dobdubi was nowhere near done. General Nakano sent 170 soldiers of the 115th regiment on May 17th to attack Hote via the Malolo track. Nakano estimated the Australians had around 50 men defending Hote. The Japanese force ran into 25 Australians at Cissembob along the way and the defenders inflicted 50 casualties upon the Japanese before withdrawing towards Ohibe. One Australian commander at Cissembob had this to say about the engagement  "During this running fight, all men were under very heavy fire, but once again it was brought out what rotten shots the Japanese were. Not one of our boys were hit, and believe me things were hot." The Australians would return to the Hote area on the 22nd to find it completely deserted, so they simply reoccupied their lost positions. That is it for the New Guinea campaign, but other significant events unfolded for the Pacific War during this time period. On April 21st, with a heavy heart President Roosevelt announced to the American people the Japanese had executed several airmen from the famous Doolittle raid. To refresh your memories, 8 of the Doolittle pilots had been captured in Jiangsu province and put on military trial within China and sentenced to death “because of their act against humanity”. They were then transported to Tokyo where the Army ministry reviewed their case. Hideki Tojo initially opposed the death sentences for fearing the Americans would retaliate against Japanese living in America, he would be right about this. Sugiyama and the rest of the Army general staff however insisted on executing all 8 of the pilots who had contributed to the deaths of around 50 civilians and thwart possible future air raids against Japan. The executions would be authorized by an ex post facto military regulation specifically drafted by the army ministry. What is interesting to note, is Emperor Hirohito chose to intervene and commuted the punishment of 5 out of the 8 pilots. Why he allowed the other 3 to die in violation of international law is unknown as the Japanese destroyed nearly all documentation pertaining to prisoners of war by the end of the war. Some historians theorize Hirohito wished to demonstrate his benevolence. Yet again, this is one of those moments that showcases Hirohito was a very active participant, despite the claims made for decades after the war that he was merely a powerless hostage. The 3 men were executed via firing squad at a cemetery outside Shanghai in China on October 14th of 1942. It was not until april of 1943 that the Doolittle Raid operation was fully disclosed to the American public. The US war department said the chief reason for not explaining the full details of the Doolittle raid sooner was the need to bring the Doolittle pilots safely home and to prevent reprisals against their Chinese allies who aided the pilots. In April of 1943 the 5 surviving pilots were moved to Nanjing and in December of 1943 Pilot Robert Meder died of beri beri. He had been starving for months and rejected medical assistance. His death would result in improvements of conditions for the remaining 4 pilots. A truly tragic part of this war and to add to this I would like to read a short piece written by one of the pilots who survived the captivity and became a Christian missionary in Japan after the war.   I Was a Prisoner of Japan   By Jacob DeShazer   I was a prisoner of war for 40 long months, 34 of them in solitary confinement.   When I flew as a member of a bombing squadron on a raid over enemy territory on April 18, 1942, my heart was filled with bitter hatred for the people of that nation. When our plane ran out of petrol and the members of the crew of my plane had to parachute down into enemy-held territory and were captured by the enemy, the bitterness of my heart against my captors seemed more than I could bear.   Taken to prison with the survivors of another of our planes, we were imprisoned and beaten, half-starved, terribly tortured, and denied by solitary confinement even the comfort of association with one another. Three of my buddies were executed by a firing squad about six months after our capture and 14 months later, another one of them died of slow starvation. My hatred for the enemy nearly drove me crazy.   It was soon after the latter's death that I began to ponder the cause of such hatred between members of the human race. I wondered what it was that made one people hate another people and what made me hate them.   My thoughts turned toward what I heard about Christianity changing hatred between human beings into real brotherly love and I was gripped with a strange longing to examine the Christian's Bible to see if I could find the secret.   I begged my captors to get a Bible for me. At last, in the month of May, 1944, a guard brought me the book, but told me I could have it only for three weeks.   I eagerly began to read its pages. Chapter after chapter gripped my heart. In due time I came to the books of the prophets and found that their every writing seemed focused on a divine Redeemer from sin, One who was to be sent from heaven to be born in the form of a human babe. Their writings so fascinated me that I read them again and again until I had earnestly studied them through six times. Then I went on into the New Testament and there read of the birth of Jesus Christ, the One who actually fulfilled the very prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Micah, and the other Old Testament writers.   My heart rejoiced as I found confirmed in Acts 10:43, "To Him give all the prophets witness, that through His Name, whosoever believeth on Him shall receive remission of sins." After I carefully read this book of the Acts, I continued on into the study of the epistle Paul wrote to the Christians at Rome.   On June 8, 1944 the words in Romans 10:9 stood out boldly before my eyes: "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."   That very moment, God gave me grace to confess my sins to Him and He forgave me all my sins and saved me for Jesus' sake. I later found that His Word again promises this so clearly in 1 John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."   How my heart rejoiced in my newness of spiritual life, even though my body was suffering so terribly from the physical beatings and lack of food! But suddenly I discovered that God had given me new spiritual eyes and that when I looked at the enemy officers and guards who had starved and beaten my companions and me so cruelly, I found my bitter hatred for them changed to loving pity.   I realized that these people did not know anything about my Savior and that if Christ is not in a heart, it is natural to be cruel. I read in my Bible that while those who crucified Jesus had beaten Him and spit upon Him before He was nailed to the cross, on the cross He tenderly prayed in His moment of excruciating suffering, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."   And now, from the depths of my heart, I too prayed for God to forgive my torturers, and I determined by the aid of Christ to do my best to acquaint these people with the message of salvation that they might become as other believing Christians.   With His love controlling my heart, the 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians took on a living meaning: "Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in truth; beareth all things, believeth all things. Love never faileth."   A year passed by and during that year the memories of the weeks I had been permitted to spend with my Bible grew sweeter and sweeter day by day. Then, one day as I was sitting in my solitary confinement cell I became very sick. My heart was paining me, even as my fellow prisoner had told me his was paining him just before he died of starvation.   I slid down onto my knees and began to pray. The guards rushed in and began to punish me, but I kept right on praying. Finally they let me alone. God, in that hour, revealed unto me how to endure suffering.   At last freedom came. On August 20, 1945 parachutists dropped onto the prison grounds and released us from our cells. We were flown back to our own country and placed in hospitals where we slowly regained our physical strength.   I have completed my training in a Christian college, God having clearly commanded me: "Go, teach those people who held you prisoner, the way of salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ," and am now back in that land as a missionary, with one single purpose--to make Christ known.   I am sending this testimony to people everywhere, with the earnest prayer that a great host of people may confess Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.   Alongside the unfortunate news for the Americans on May 14th a major tragedy occurred for the Australians. At 4:10am on the 14th, the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was on a run from Sydney to Port Moresby when she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The torpedo struck her portside oil fuel tank below the waterline, creating a 10 meter hole, igniting fuel and setting the ship ablaze. The ship was luckily not carrying patients, but held her normal crew staff, around 332 personnel on board. Many of those on board were killed instantly from the concussion blast, others from the blazing inferno. Centaur quickly took on water from her breach, rolled to port and sank bow-first, submerging within 3 minutes. Her rapid sinking prevented the deployment of lifeboats, though two would break off as she went down. According to Centaurs second officer Gordon Rippon, she was hit 44km northeast of Point Lookout. Of the 332 people onboard, only 64 would survive, most of the crew had been asleep when she was hit, giving barely a chance to react. It is estimated that 200 people may have been alive inside Centaur as she sank. Several who escaped the ship would die of shrapnel wounds or drown having found nothing to support them in the water. The survivors spent 36 hours in the water clinging to barrels, wreckage and two damaged lifeboats. The survivors drifted around 36 kms in the water going further north east. On the morning of May 15th, the destroyer USS Mugford departed Brisbane, escorted the New Zealand freighter Sussex when she saw some of the shipwrecked survivors. Sailors aboard the Mugford took up positions with rifles fending off sharks from the survivors. It took an hour and 20 minutes to rescue all 64 people. One of the survivors was sister Ellen Savage, the only surviving nurse from 12 aboard the Centaur. In 1944 Ellen Savage was presented the George Medal for providing medical care, boosting morale and displaying courage during the time they waited for rescue. The identity of the attacker was suspected to be a Japanese submarine. At the time of the attack three KD7 Kaidai class submarines were operating off Australians east coast; The I-177 commanded by Hajime Nakagawa, the I-178 commanded by Hidejiro Utsuki and the I-180 commanded by Toshio Kusaka. None of these submarines survived the Pacific War; the I-177 was sunk by the USS Samual S Miles on october 3rd of 1944; the I-178 was sunk by the USS Patterson on august 25th of 1943 and the i-180 was sunk by the USS Gilmore on april 26th of 1944. In December of 1943 following protests, the Japanese government issued an official statement denying any responsibility for the sinking of the Centaur. The sinking of a hospital ship was a war crime, and investigations were conducted between 1944-1948. The conclusion of the investigate suspected the I-177 of Nakagawa to be the most likely culprit, but there was not enough evidence, thus the case was closed on december 14th of 1948. Nakagawa survived the war and until his death in 1991 refused to speak about the suspected attack on the Centaur. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The Australian and American forces in New Guinea were fighting tooth and nail towards their ultimate goal of Salamaua, trying to deceive the Japanese the whole while. Soon battles for Lae and Salamaua will be fought to rid New Guinea of the Japanese menace. 

Last time we spoke about Operation Vengeance, the assassination of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. When the decrypted intelligence hit Admiral Nimitz desk about the vulnerability of his Japanese rival, he wondered what he should do. Was it moral? Would it even benefit the allies, Yamamoto was arguably losing the war on his own? In the end he ordered the hit and sent the job over to Admiral Halsey who enthusiastically took the bull by the horns. A special squadron of P-38 Lightnings were sent over to perform an extremely precise interception of Yamamoto's G4M Betty aircraft enroute to Ballale airfield on Bougainville. Yamamoto's aircraft was shot down killing him and all those aboard it. The death of the admiral was hidden from the Japanese public for an entire month and upon learning of it the Japanese people all mourned. It was a terrible moment for the Japanese, one of the greatest had fallen, how would the rest of the war play out?  This episode is the Japanese counteroffensive in Arakan Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.    Before we jump back into the CBI theater some action was heating up in New Guinea. The Okabe detachment was defeated during the battle of Wau seeing the Australians controlling the area from Waipali to Buibaining and much of the Mubo Valley. However the Japanese remained resilient and would not give up Mubo without a fight. Vigorous patrolling and ambushes were all the Australians could perform, because they did not have the necessary numbers to launch a major offensive. In early March General MacKay sent word to Blamey, advising him he believed the Japanese might try another shot to seize Wau. He believed even with the projected arrival of the 4th and 15th brigades they would still be outnumbered by the Japanese. MacKay estimated the Japanese had roughly 7500 men in the Lae-Salamaua area and were maintaining a formidable defense in the Mubo region. Therefore he wanted to continue to restrict their activity to patrols to prevent the Japanese from surprising Wau again and allowing vital time to build up the defenses. The attack on Mubo in January had not accomplished its objectives, but it did show the Japanese at Lae and Salamaua how much of a hornet's nest they had stirred up by attacking Wau. The Japanese were not done however and hoped to launch a counteroffensive. They planned to bring the 51st division in a large convoy across the Bismarck Sea. But as we saw in a previous episode this was met with catastrophe during the battle of the bismarck sea, denying the reinforcements, equipment and supplies the Japanese at Mubo desperately needed. 800 units, mostly from the 102 regiment held various positions at Mubo and they could not hope to launch a counteroffensive.  The supply situation in New Guinea remained a nightmare for both sides. In January Blamey authorized the construction of a new jeep trail going from Bulldog to Wau and it would take months to complete the 68 mile path. By April the Australians improved their situation in the Mubo area by occupying the heights called Saddle and Vicker's ridge. They began placing artillery on the heights and on the 20th began to bombard the Japanese position on Green Hill. On the 23rd, Major General Stanley Savige of the 3rd division established his Headquarters at Bulolo. Kanga force had been officially dissolved, thus henceforth the 3rd division was responsible for offensives in the Wau-Lae-Markham area. For months the focus had been on reinforcing Wau, expecting a major Japanese offensive. But the Australians had also maintained a small force 11 miles from Salamaua guarding the entrance to the Markham valley. The 2/3rd independent company was occupying in the vicinity of Missim village along the Francisco river between the Powerhouse and Salamaua. In early april they began performing reconnaissance of the area. On the 21st the ambushed a column of 60 Japanese managing to kill over 20 of them and wounding 15. Soon after their commander was notified by Moten that they were going to launch an offensive against Mubo finally set for the 24th. The offensive against Mubo was actually part of something grander. General Blamey planned to capture Lae forming a plan codenamed Operation postern which was quickly approved by General MacArthur. For the plan to work, the allies needed to trick General Adachi that Salamaua was the primary target for a major offensive. Thus to accomplish this, the Australians had the ⅔ independent company operate just a few miles from Salamaua. General Stanley Savige would not even be aware of these grander planes until June of 1943. Postern called for a large pincer movement, involving an amphibious assault east of Lae and an airborne assault near Nadzab 50 kms to the west of Lae. Planning for Postern had begun in May, with Generals Blamey and Herring proposing to seize Nadzab as soon as possible with Brigadier Eather's 25th Brigade and a parachute battalion, while the 9th Australian Division, now under the command of Major-General George Wooten, was to take Lae in early August. Nadzab was an obvious target, undefended and of immense value, not only for the Lae operation but also for extending the range of Allied air power. In the meantime Blamey had various forces drive the Japanese from key areas, but not to attack Salamaua directly. The Japanese were going to be in for a major surprise. But now we are turning over to the CBI theater. Last time we were speaking about General Irwins Arakan disaster and the mad onion man Wingate's operation Longcloth. Irwins blunders had cost countless lives and provided General Koga's 55th division ample time to regroup. By March 20th, Wavell, Irwin and Lloyd were accepting they would have to withdraw the forces to the Maungdaw-Buthidaung line. Wavell was incredibly pissed off and decided to make Lloyd a scapegoat. Lloyd was dismissed and replaced by Major General Lomax who was ordered to simply carry on doing what Lloyd had been doing. Lomax came just in time to meet General Koga's counteroffensive which practically annihilated the 47th brigade. Irwin looking to blame anyone and anything but himself, shifted the blame to the brigade itself rather than his tactical blunders and tried again to bring Slim into his mess. The British forces were forced to flee east of the Mayu river and this severely beat India morale which was already horrible to begin with.   Now how bad was morale? By early April morale had plummeted to an all time new low. This was because of the series of terrible defeats, terrible casualties and growing more from malaria. The 6th brigade wsa evacuating 50 men due to malaria a day. Despite using mepacrine as a suppressive treatment alongside anti-moquito nets, cream and wearing long clothes at night, in 8 weeks the 6th brigade lost half its total strength. Desertions were on the rise from many units, causing the British commanders a lot of anxiety over their loyalty.  General's Slim and Lomax met at Chittagong as Koga was sweeping everything before him. Both generals scoured over the maps and agreed, Koga's next logical step was an assault on the Maungdaw-Buthidaung line. To meet this attack, Slim and Lomax devised a stratagem for catching Koga in a box along the Mayu peninsula. The box was to involve 6 battalions, two on the ridges of the Mayu hills, two along the mayu river and two in the hills south of the Maungdaw-Buthidaung road. The idea was to let the Japanese advance through the most likely location, some tunnels on a disused railway track. Once the Japanese were along the tunnels, they would close the lid on the box using a force of brigade level strength. The hope was to achieve a perfect encirclement, chasing the legendary glory of Hannibal's victory at the battle of Cannae. To do this they had exhausted and unbelievably demoralized men and would have to achieve a scheme of geometric perfection.  The troops Lomax came to command were shaken badly, malaria riden battalions, departing the disastrous Arakan campaign at the point of exhaustion. There were no trained formations available in India to replace them, thus they would have to be retained in combat. By early April, Lomax had skillfully managed to stabilize the front at the Maungdaw-Buthidaung. On April 14th Marshall Wavell had appointed General Slim's 15th corps to lead the British-Indian forces retreat. The Japanese sensing weakness amongst the allied forces continued their advance. On April 24th, the Japanese reached the British defenses at Buthidaung and Maungdaw. The 55th indian Brigade held the first attack at Kanthe while carefully preparing their entrapment box strategy, pushing the Japanese advance along the spine of the Mayu mountains; however it all went to shit. Two demoralized battalions gave way to Japanese pressure, breaking the box. This forced everything to come undone and soon the British-Indian forces were yet again performing a fighting withdrawal going north.  It was reported that the fighting efficiency was so low by April 28th, the men of the 8/13th frontier force regiment had literally fired off all their ammunition at an imaginary opponent, and when they actually were attacked the next day they had no option but to retreat. The withdrawal culminated with the capture of Buthidaung on May 9th. The 55th brigade narrowly escaped annihilation by abandoning their vehicles and heavy equipment while limping by foot over some jungle covered hills to safety. Five days later the port of Maungdaw was evacuated and the British-Indian defenders began to take up defensive positions in the open rice-field country near Cox's Bazar. As General Slim noted “Our only hope of stabilizing the front, if the Japanese really pushed us, was to hold the rice-field country. Our men were still untrained for the jungle; they feared it more than they did the enemy. We had to select areas where we could give our troops reasonable fields of fire and open maneuver.‘It was too much like 1942 over again, with the added bitterness that this time we had been defeated by forces smaller than our own.” Slim was very better about the entire ordeal. To make matters worse, the men only pulled out after Slim's incessant pressure applied to Lomax, because Irwin was counter arguing they should toss the kitchen sink for a siege strategy. All the way over in London Sir Winston Churchill had this to say “‘This campaign goes from bad to worse, and we are being completely outfought and outmanoeuvred by the Japanese. Luckily the small scale of the operations and the attraction of other events has prevented public opinion being directed upon this lamentable scene.” Churchill was writing at a time, after the Anglo-American victory in North Africa and the crushing soviet victory at Stalingrad. It was obvious to Churchill and the other allied leadership, Europe was won. Churchill was furious with Wavell, a man he never really liked. The Americans likewise were not happy with Wavell. Meanwhile Irwin kept blaming everyone except himself, even sending reports of how cowardly his troops were. Irwins last absurdity was to signal a recommendation that General Slim by removed from commanding the 15th corps. But Wavell, under severe criticism of himself by this point was determined that Irwin would be canned. Slim was ordered to report to Irwin's HQ. Slim told his colleagues around him he was about to be dismissed as he made his way. When he got to Irwin he was met with this ‘You're not sacked. I am.' Upon hearing this, Slim remarked: ‘I think this calls for the opening of a bottle of port or something if we have one.'   The British-Indians forces had  916 dead, 2889 wounded and 1252 missing; the Indian high command had suffered another heavy blow, with the myth of Japanese superiority, excellence and skill as a jungle fighter being strongly reinforced in the minds of British and Indian troops, something that gravely affected their morale General Slim held a rather remarkable ability, mental toughness with some extraordinary resistance to stress. The frustrations of all the defeats and the constant shuffling between HQs and the front was a lot to bear. Slim actually found something positive about the Arakan disaster. The British battle casualties were high, but they could have been a hell of a lot higher, given Irwins insistance to perform endless frontal attacks. The British had learnt valuable lessons about the Japanese and the lack of their own training in specific areas. There had been over 7500 cases of malaria and they were only truly learning on the spot how to deal with the pesky disease. Troops heanceforth would be routinely issued with mosquito nets, repellents and by autumn of 1943 a wonder drug was developed, Mepacrine which significantly helped with the symptoms of malaria.  But by far and large the most significant long term development in 1942-1943 was the gradual reasseration of allied air superiorirty. By the end of 1942, 150 new airfields were constructed, RAF pilots and aircraft began to arrive to them in large numbers and the Americans had sent 10,000 air force personnel to serve in the CBI theater. Heavy B-24 Liberator bombers began to appear at the battlefront for the first time and in November of 1942 some made the spectacular 2760 mile return trip after bombing Bangkok. The Japanese quickly realized their proposed Burma-Siam railway was very vulnerable. When the war in the middle east came to a close in early 1943, the US army airforce transferred a ton of their heavy bombers to the far east. Bombing raids on Bangkok, Rangoon and Mandalay were increased significantly by Christmas of 1942. The Japanese were gradually losing their air superiorirty and this was deeply troubling for them.  During the Arakan campaign a Japanese colonel issued the following orders ‘There must be no fear of aircraft. As long as you are not discovered you must seek to remain so. If once our position is revealed, the enemy planes must be shot down. It is not permissible to suppose that our soldiers are no match for aircraft.' The Japanese were forced to yield the skies over Arakan even though they had taken its ground. The RAG would conduct search and destroy missions over Thaitkido, Buthidaung, Sinho and Akyab island in June. 6 Hurricanes would escort some Blenheim bombers on a long range raid against Ramree island, even though they were not safe. Allied air superiority would eventually become the crucial factor to win the struggle over Burma. Now we cant talk about Burma without talking a bit more about the mad onion man Wingate. While the Arakan campaign was coming to its disastrous conclusion, Operation Longcloth had reached its own. The last remaining columns made their way back to allied territory. 2182 returned out of the original 3000 men that entered Burma; an estimated 818 men had been killed, taken prisoner or died of disease. There was a ton of criticism tossed at the operation and the effectiveness of the Chindits, but the operation was moderately successful. To be brutally honest, the Burma campaign had basically no success stories except for the Chindits, thus it got inflated quite heavily. Wavell was very pleased with the performance of Wingate's forces, so much so he put in an order to form the new Long Range Penetration group, the 111th Indian Brigade. Wavell handpicked their commander, Brigadier William Lentaigne who would come to hate Wingate and Wingate hated him haha. The success of the Chindits would be tossed in all the major headlines of every newspaper from England to India. The British had to do something to raise morale and the Chindits kind of just fell into it. Now one last major event that occurred during all of this was a major conference. Wavell had been flown to Washington to partake in the Trident Conference which was carried from May 12-25th. The main focus of the conference was on the European theater, in fact there was an obsession over the Mediterranean cross channel invasion plans. When it came to theaters like Burma there was little interest. In fact Churchill would often only talk about Singapore when the east was brought up, showcasing full and well he only sought to revitalize the prestige of the British empire over other things. Churchill was quite in favor of bypassing Burma which he viewed as only being beneficial to China, a subject he could not understand why FDR obsessed over. It seemed the Churchill FDR regarded China as the emerging dominant power in the far east, while he only regarded CHina as a pacific power, ignoring China's claims over Tibet, Mongolia and northeastern Burma, and of course Churchill would completely ignore any mention of Hong Kong. FDR was seen to be extremely Pro-Chiang Kai-shek, almost maniac by British accounts. The British began to adopt a machiavellian stance of supporting Chiang Kai-shek and Chennault's airpower idea, thinking it would surely fail, which served Britain just fine.  Meanwhile, Vinegar Joseph Stilwell also at the Trident conference, kept trying to persuade his president that Chiang Kai-Shek was cunning and quite evil. He stressed the danger of American becoming a solitary atlas bearing the burden of the world because the British were outplaying them. He underlined Chiang Kai-sheks ambitions to get rid of him and replace him with a “yes man”, so he could acquire lendlease material for his own ends without any pushbacks. Stilwell recommended sending US troops to the CBI theater; to get Chiang Kai-shek to make specific commitments and stop wiggling around issues and above all to stop Chiang Kai-sheks stab-in-the-back secret diplomacy antics. Stilwell would find the British at Trident very unimpressed with him and his opinions. Stilwell also chose to bitterly argue with Field Marshal Alanbrooke, the chief of the imperial staff and a rampant Americanphobe. It got so bad, George Marshall told Stimson ‘Stilwell shut up like a clam and made an unfavourable impression.'  During the conference FDR did ask Stilwell in private what he thought of Chiang Kai-shek to which Stilwell said ‘He's a vacillating, tricky, undependable old scoundrel who never keeps his word.' By contrast Chennault, when asked a similar question, replied: ‘Sir, I think the generalissimo is one of the two or three greatest military and political leaders in the world today. He has never broken a commitment or promise made to me.' Meanwhile Chiang Kai-sheks representatives including his wife were threatening to pull out of Burma and to make a separate peace with Japan, unless the British finally took action to seize Rangoon. Instead it was agreed, more supplies would be tossed over the Hump and for the future operation Anakim to be shelved, to which Stilwell argued that if the allies waited another year before launching a land-based campaign, China would collapse.  Trident was chaotic as hell. Admiral King slammed the table with his fists many times violently supporting Marshall and Stilwell. King and Marshall wanted the land route to China open, but the British kept tossing their support for the Hump operations. Stilwell was not having a good time, but then he had a surprising victory. Stilwell met with Churchill privately, complaining about the abysmal situation in Burma, and Churchill 100% agreed with his criticisms. Churchill acknowledged the high command in India was terrible and that he was going to replace Wavell. As Stilwell wrote after the experience.   “With Wavell in command, failure was inevitable; he had nothing to offer at any meeting except protestations that the thing was impossible, hopeless, impractical. Churchill even spoke of it as silly. The Limeys all wanted to wait another year. After the Akyab fiasco, the four Japanese divisions in Burma have been scared to death. The inevitable conclusion was that Churchill has Roosevelt in his pocket. That they are looking for an easy way, a short cut for England, and that no attention must be diverted from the Continent at any cost. The Limeys are not interested in the war in the Pacific, and with the President hypnotised they are sitting pretty. Roosevelt wouldn't let me speak my piece. I interrupted twice but Churchill kept pulling away from the subject and it was impossible.' Thus Wavell was as they say “kicked up stairs”, promoted to viceroy of India and replaced as commander in India with Sir Claude Auchinleck. Stilwell returned to China and participated on a celebrity tour arranged by George Marshall to heighten his profile. Once that was done, Stilwell fell into a depression writing this  “‘Back to find Chiang same as ever – a grasping, bigoted, ungrateful little rattlesnake.Any Jap threat will put the Peanut in an uproar, and if they are wise they will repeat their attempt, for this if for no other reason. And if they seriously want to gain the game, they can attack Kunming or Chungking, or both, with five divisions on either line and finish the matter. If we sting them badly enough in the air, they are almost sure to try it . . . The Peanut's promise of picked men for India is so much wind; last year 68% of the men sent were rejected for trachoma or skin disease . . . This is going beyond all bounds. This insect, this stink in the nostrils, superciliously inquires what we will do, who are breaking our backs to help him, supplying everything – troops, equipment, planes, medical, signal, motor services, setting up his goddam SOS, training his lousy troops, backing his dastardly chief of staff, and general staff, and he the Jovian dictator, who starves his troops and is the world's worst ignoramus, picks flaws in our preparations and hems and haws about the Navy, God save us.” Stilwell's frustration was a bit understandable as Chiang Kai-shek had still not replied to FDR about if or when he could commit forces into Burma again. Stilwell was baffled by his nations continued support of what he saw as a fascist regime in China, while simultaneously fighting the fascist regimes in Europe. What Stilwell really wanted was to be made field commander in China, and if he ever got that position, the first thing he would do was cancel the lendlease. Things were not going so well for the married couple of Vinegar Joe and Peanut. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. Things were not going well in Burma to say the least. Well except for the Chindits minor success, but that simply could not overcome the incredible low morale of the far east allied forces in the face of what seemed an unstoppable Japanese goliath. 

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Nur noch 8 Tage bis Sonic Frontiers! Grund genug, dass es mal wieder einen großen Schwall an News zu berichten gibt. Doch damit nicht genug: Ein neuer Teaser Trailer zu Sonic Prime ist da, mitsamt neuen Postern und sogar endlich einem Releasetermin! Taucht auch in das Fandom ein, das mit dem Design eines bestimmten Charakters in Sonic Prime durchaus so seine Probleme hat. Zeitstempel: - 0:00 Intro, Sonic Frontiers, Comics - 19:00 News-Rückblick Livestreams jeden Donnerstag um 20 Uhr auf Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/ruki185 Kontakt: gottapodcast@gmail.com Hier geht's zu unserem Discord-Server: https://discord.gg/KEAmvmKVPF Hinterlasst uns gerne einen Kommentar mit Feedback, Fragen und/oder Kritik! Das könnt ihr unter anderem im Newsbeitrag auf SpinDash.de bzw. im dortigen Forum und auf dem Discord-Server tun. Auf Social Media sind wir natürlich auch vertreten: Sowohl auf Instagram (@gottapodcast), als auch auf Twitter (@spindash_de) und Facebook (GottaPodCast) oder aber einfach unter dem Hashtag #GottaPodCast! Auch über eine positive Bewertung freuen wir uns immer! Die Weblinks zum Nachlesen gibt's im Newsbeitrag auf spindash.de

Der Vibe dieser Folge – er klingt ein wenig nach zwei Teenager-Freunden in den 80ern, die in einem "Schreibtisch-Bett-Schrankwand-Arrangement" aka dem Jugendzimmer gemeinsam einen EMP-Katalog nach Postern durchblättern, dabei Kakao aus 0,5 Glasflaschen trinken und versuchen, die Welt an diesem Sonntag in Worte zu fassen. Wenn man Micky und Oli so zuhört, dann sind sie im Grunde ja auch noch immer diese Teenager, die aus dem Stegreif Vanilla Ice Tracks rappen oder die Folge 3 "Katzenjammer" aus der ersten „ALF“-Staffel zu zitieren im Stande sind. Also: Teenager mit Bart. Und Beruf. In dieser Episode nehmen unsere fantastischen Zwei uns unter anderem gedanklich mit an den wohl friedlichsten Ort der Kindheit: Den Autorücksitz. Denn während die Nachrichtenlage sich wie eine wirre Vorstellung anfühlt, in der sich so Heinis wie Trump und Kanye die brennenden Jonglagekegel des Wahnsinns zuwerfen, ist es gewiss ein heilsamer Gedanke, sich auf die Rückbank des Autos der Eltern zurück zu beamen. Dort riecht es immer ein wenig nach verschütteter Fanta, die auf dem Kunstleder klebt, eine abnehmbare Playmobil-Frisur klemmt in der Sitzritze und der Fußraum beherbergt die typischen Frühwerke einer Dreikäsehoch-Bibliothek: Pixi-Bücher und Micky-Maus-Hefte… Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/Friendly_Fire

Was genau ist eigentlich der Impressionismus und warum gilt Claude Monet als dessen wichtigster Vertreter? Ist seine Kunst eigentlich harmlos oder radikal? Oder wie gelang es ihm, gleich zwei Revolutionen in die Malerei einzuführen? Das sind die Fragen im neuesten Podcast "Augen zu". Es gibt Maler, die sind so berühmt, dass am Ende niemand mehr genau weiß, warum. Claude Monet ist ein solcher Fall, 1840 geboren und erst 1926 im biblischen Alter von 86 Jahren gestorben. Man verbindet ihn mit Mohnblumenfeldern, mit flackerndem Malstil, mit riesigen Seerosenbildern – überall finden sich inzwischen seine Motive, auf Postern, auf Taschen und auf Kühlschrankmagneten. Monet ist zum Inbegriff des Impressionismus geworden – aber warum? Davon erzählen Florian Illies und Giovanni di Lorenzo in der neuesten Folge von "Augen zu", dem Podcast von ZEIT und ZEIT ONLINE. Schon als Schüler machte Monet durch seine hinreißenden Karikaturen auf sich aufmerksam, dann nahm ihn Eugène Boudin unter seine Fittiche, der große Maler des Meeres der Normandie, und bei ihm lernte er den Blick in den Himmel, er malte die Luft und er malte die Wolken. Dann ging Monet nach Paris, wo jener Mann, dessen Name manchmal mit seinem verwechselt wird, gerade für Furore sorgte: Manet. Und während Eduard Manet mit seinen Figurenbildern, dem "Frühstück im Freien" und seinem riesigen provozierenden Akt der "Olympia" für Aufruhr sorgte, wollte Monet das Gleiche mit seinen Landschaften erreichen, er setzte sich mit allen Sinnen dem Licht und der Natur aus. Manet wie Monet wurden vom offiziellen Salon ausgeschlossen und so zeigten sie 1874 in der ersten Impressionistenausstellung ihre malerischen Revolutionen. In der Ausstellung hing Monets hingeblinzelte Ansicht des Hafens von Le Havre im morgendlichen Dämmerlicht, die er "Le Havre, Impression, Sonnenaufgang" nannte. Und so gab sein Bildtitel einer ganzen Kunstbewegung den Namen. Worum ging es den "Impressionisten"? Sie glaubten nicht mehr daran, dass es eine Abbildung der Wirklichkeit gibt, die gültig ist, sondern hatten in der Natur erkannt, dass das Licht jeden Gegenstand verändert, dass er zu verschiedenen Tageszeiten ganz unterschiedliche Farben und Ausdrucksformen annehmen konnte. Es gibt keine Wahrheit mehr, es gibt nur noch Versionen – das ist Monets erste bahnbrechende Neuerung, darum malt er einen Heuschober zu den verschiedenen Tageszeiten und dann die Kathedrale von Rouen, er suchte, zeitgleich mit Marcel Proust, nach einer künstlerischen Form, die verstreichende Zeit zu malen. Diese Serienbilder Monets sind die wahren Vorboten von Andy Warhols legendäre Pop-Art-Serien von Marilyn Monroe. Der junge Monet raste rastlos dem Licht und dem Zufall hinterher, der Monet der mittleren Jahre versuchte, den flüchtigen Erscheinungen der Natur in seiner Malerei Dauer zu verleihen. Der späte Monet aber lässt die Natur und die Kunst zu einem vegetativen Kontinuum verschmelzen. In den aus Japan importierten Seerosen, für die er große Teiche anlegte, entdeckte Monet dann, als um ihn herum längst der Expressionismus und die Moderne tobte, sein wichtigstes Motiv, das er obsessiv in Malerei umsetzte, in riesigen Formaten. Die auf dem Wasser schwimmenden Seerosen verewigte er in lilagrünen Farbwelten, die in ihrer All-over-Struktur nichts weniger vorwegnehmen als die Großformate der amerikanischen Abstraktion nach 1945. Auf den meterlangen Farbseen Monets haben dann Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko und Joan Mitchell ihre Boote in die Zukunft gesetzt. Monets Ruhm also beruht darauf, dass wir ihm mit seinen Serien und mit seinen Seerosenbildern, in denen sich das Auge verliert, zwei zentrale Revolutionen des Sehens im 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts verdanken. Sie erreichen den Podcast mit Anregungen und Fragen über die E-Mail-Adresse augenzu@zeit.de.

Die Tafel ist nicht das einzige Hilfsmittel, was Lehrpersonen zur Verfügung haben. Auch an den Wänden des Klassenzimmers, bietet sich der Platz wollüstig an mit Postern und Arbeitsergebnissen verschönert zu werden. Doch wie kann man diese am besten gestalten? Welche Hacks und Strategien gibt es, Poster in ihrer Wirksamkeit UND Ästhetik zu steigern? In diesem Interview spreche ich über genau diese Themen mit Flipchartprofi Sylvia Dollinger darüber. Wer ist Sylvia und was macht sie? 0:37Was sind die größten Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen Tafel und Flipchart 3:53Tipps zur Gestaltung eines Flipcharts bzw. Posters 6:11Wie erstellt man eine Flipchart und Poster Präsentation 11:15Die Striptease Methode 15:34Flipchart Muster 17:02Was geht gar nicht auf einem Flipchart und einem Poster 20:45Erstellen eines Flipchart anhand eines Beispiels 22:06Techniken zur Visualisierung 27:47Schlusswort 31:29Kontakt zu Sylvia 34:35 Wenn du mehr über Sylvia erfahren willst: https://www.flipchartwerkstatt.de/ oder https://www.instagram.com/dieflipchartwerkstatt/ Welchen Tipp fandest du am nützlichsten für deinen Untericht?

Amazon zeigt 46 Hände auf 23 Postern und Tolkienfans weltweit verlieren den Verstand. Die drei mittelalten Herren begeben sich auf die Suche nach versteckten und offensichtlichen Hinweise auf den Teaser-Postern und werden dabei fachkundig unterstützt von The Clueless Fangirl (Link zu ihrem Kanal hier).

Amazon zeigt 46 Hände auf 23 Postern und Tolkienfans weltweit verlieren den Verstand. Die drei mittelalten Herren begeben sich auf die Suche nach versteckten und offensichtlichen Hinweise auf den Teaser-Postern und werden dabei fachkundig unterstützt von The Clueless Fangirl (Link zu ihrem Kanal hier).

Eine häufige Frage, die Stockfotografen umtreibt, ist, ob sie ihre Werke nicht auch direkt über eine eigene Webseite verkaufen könnten, anstatt sie nur bei Bildagenturen anzubieten, welche den Großteil des Verkaufspreises als Kommission einstreichen. Einer, der das in die Praxis umgesetzt hat, ist der Illustrator Knut Hebstreit. Er hat sogar gleich zwei Shops: Einmal einen, in dem er seine digitale Dateien verkauft und einen "Print-On-Demand"-Shop, wo Endkunden seine Bilder auf gedruckten Produkten wie Postern etc. erwerben können. Deshalb rede ich in der aktuellen Folge vom "Podcast eines Fotoproduzenten" mit Knut über seine beiden Shops, die Unterschiede zu Bildagenturen, welche Tools er empfehlen und welche Tipps er geben kann. Außerdem erzählt er, wie er es geschafft hat, mit seinen Shops mehr Umsatz als bei den Microstock-Agenturen zu generieren und welche Marketing-Kanäle für ihn dafür besonders wichtig sind.

Als fleißiger und regelmäßiger Kinogänger passieren interessante Dinge: man hält die Augen auf nach neuen Postern, man freut sich über Trailer-Premieren und verfolgt Gerüchte über geplante Filmprojekte. Manchmal passiert es, dass wir uns ganz besonders auf Filme freuen. Dann steigt gleichzeitig die Hoffnung besagte Filme in der Sneak zu sehen. Und manchmal haben wir tatsächlich Glück und wir bekommen genau das gezeigt, was wir uns lange gewünscht haben. Jetzt war es endlich mal wieder soweit. Last Night in Soho steht schon lange auf unserer Wunschliste. So lange, dass Rafael einfach vorher schon Karten für die Vorpremiere gekauft hat, weil er ihn AUF JEDEN FALL gucken will – am liebsten natürlich so früh wie möglich. Und wie es das Glück so will konnte er jetzt Last Night in Soho zweimal bestaunen: einmal in der Sneak und einmal in der Vorpremiere. Last Night in Soho ist der neue Film von Edgar Wright. Sein letzter Film war Baby Driver, seinen Namen kennt Film-Fans spätestens seit Hot Fuzz und Shaun of the Dead. Edgar Wright ist ein bisschen wie wir: er liebt Filme. Also machte er mit Last Night in Soho einen Film darüber, wie sehr er Filme liebt und bedient sich vieler toller Mittel mit dieser Mystery/Thriller/Horror/Drama-Perle ein kleines Stück Kinoliebe zurückzugeben. Eloise ist ein Landei und träumt davon, eines Tages Modedesignerin zu werden. Sie schafft es an ihre Wunschschule in London. Allerdings scheint von Anfang an nichts so zu laufen, wie sie sich das vorgestellt hat. Sie gerät nach und nach in einen Strudel, der es ihr und uns schwer macht, zwischen Realität und Fantasie zu unterscheiden. Wir lieben ihn. Und wir möchten, dass ihn jeder im Kino anguckt. Also los los, Wir sehen uns im Kino!

Farin Urlaub ist Sänger und Gitarrist und ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass es hier jemanden gibt, der seine Band DIE ÄRZTE nicht kennt. Die Ärzte sind die erste Lieblingsband meines Lebens, mein ganzes Kinderzimmer war voll mit ihren Postern und obwohl ich christlich erzogen wurde, gibt es auch für mich nur einen Gott. Bela Farin Rod. Obwohl ich keine Ärzte-Poster mehr an der Wand habe, höre ich mir jedes Album der Band an - natürlich auch ihr neues Album “Dunkel”. Was mich seit Jahren fasziniert ist, wie kreativ die Band und vor allem Farin Urlaub ist. Es gibt so viele fantastische Lieder von ihm. “Teenagerliebe”, “Du willst mich küssen”, “Zu spät”, “Junge”, “Schrei nach Liebe”, “Meine Explodierte Freundin”, “Westerland”, “Deine Schuld”, “Ich, am Strand”, “Leben vor dem Tod” oder “Bonjour Tristesse”. Für wen schreibt er diese Lieder, was bedeuten sie ihm? Überhaupt: Was bedeutet ihm was? Wir sprechen ausführlich über sein kreatives Schaffen. Es geht um seine Beziehung zu Bela und Rod und auch ein bisschen zum Rest der Welt. Es geht um Zweifel, Antrieb, Balance, Neo-Nazis und Messebau. Für mich ist es nicht nur deswegen eine besondere Folge, weil ich einen Starschnitt in echt getroffen haben. Es ist auch ein kleiner Geburtstag, denn die erste Folge Hotel Matze ist heute – am 27. Oktober – vor fünf Jahren erschienen. Damals saß ich mit Ronja von Rönne an der Hotelbar. Das Interview mit Farin Urlaub ist das 166. Gespräch. Und noch was ist besonders: Farin Urlaub hat heute auch noch Geburtstag. Herzlichen Glückwunsch uns beiden! Hipp Hipp Hurra, alles ist super, alles ist wunderbar. Ein richtiger Feiertag. MEIN GAST: https://bademeister.com/aktuell DINGE: Reise Reise Podcast Gast Farin Urlaub: https://reisen-reisen-der-podcast.de/reisen-reisen-spezial-farin-urlaub/ Buchempfehlungen: Flake - Heute hat die Welt Geburtstag: https://tidd.ly/3vM2uX8 * Flake - Der Tastenficker https://tidd.ly/3jFQ4LU * Neil MacGregor - Deutschland: Erinnerungen einer Nation https://tidd.ly/3bj1j89 * Paul Watzlawick - Menschliche Kommunikation https://tidd.ly/3Go5T3j * Franz Kafka - Neun Kurzgeschichten https://tidd.ly/3BiOW6C * TC Boyle - Wassermusik https://tidd.ly/3bdC33e * SUPPORTER: Athletic Greens AG 1 - http://athleticgreens.com/matze Emma Matratze - http://emma-matratze.de CODE “MATZE” fraenk - https://fraenk.de/fraenk-for-friends/ CODE “HOTELMATZE1” MITARBEIT: Redaktionelle Mitarbeit: Annie Hofmann Musik: Jan Köppen Mix & Schnitt: Maximilian Frisch MEIN ZEUG: Die Hotel Matze Suite: https://patreon.com/hotelmatze Wunschgäste bitte in die Kommentare: https://apple.co/2RgJVH6 Mein Newsletter: https://matzehielscher.substack.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/matzehielscher LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matzehielscher/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/2MXRILN Twitter: https://twitter.com/hotelmatze1 Mein Buch: https://bit.ly/39FtHQy *Affiliate Link (Thalia)

Wer heutzutage an klassische japanische Kunst denkt, denkt in den meisten Fällen an ukiyo-e und den japanischen Holzschnitt. Hokusais Welle, das wohl berühmteste Motiv, findet man schließlich auf Postern, Tassen und T-Shirts. Aber wie ist es ukiyo-e gelungen, nicht nur Japan im Sturm zu erobern, sondern auch das internationale Verständnis von japanischer Kunst zu prägen?

Seyran Ateş spricht über über die von ihr gegründete queerfreundliche Moschee, die Bekämpfung des "politischen Islam", ständige Morddrohungen und ihren Frust über Linke und Liberale. Seyran Ateş haben wir es zu verdanken, dass seit gut einem Monat queere Muslim*innen auf Postern im gesamten Berliner Stadtgebiet Gesicht zeigen. "Liebe ist halal" heißt die geniale Kampagne der von ihr gegründeten Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-Moschee, von der sich christliche Gemeinden eine dicke Scheibe abschneiden können. Werben katholische Kirchen für Homo-Akzeptanz, sehen wir meist nur treue Zweierpaare, denen zum Lebensglück nur der Segen des Pfarrers fehlt. Die Poster von Ateş sind dagegen nicht nur viel näher dran an der Vielfalt queeren Lebens, sondern gehen direkt ans Eingemachte, in dem sie Sexualität nicht ausklammern. "Ich bin Muslim, gläubig und habe trotzdem Sex. Mit Männern", sagt der 23-jährige Tugay auf einem Motiv. Die sexuelle Revolution des Islam – das ist das Lebensziel von Seyran Ateş. Trotz jahrelanger Anfeindungen, ständiger Morddrohungen und vieler Enttäuschungen brennt die bisexuelle Rechtsanwältin und Imamin weiterhin, ja vielleicht gerade deshalb, für die Idee eines zeitgemäßen, liberalen, geschlechtergerechten und queerfreundlichen Islam. Auch im neuen QUEERKRAM-Podcast: Mit Johannes Kram spricht die 58-Jährige eine Stunde lang engagiert über ihre Motivation, die kleinen Erfolge, ihren Kampf gegen den "politischen Islam" und die vielen Widerstände, die nicht nur von orthodoxen Muslim*innen kommen. Gleich zu Beginn des Podcasts schimpft Ateş auf den rot-rot-grünen Berliner Senat, von dem sie zu wenig Unterstützung erhalte. "Nach vier Jahren kann ich sagen, dass wir hier in dieser Stadt nicht so gern gesehen sind", sagt sie über ihre 2017 gegründete Moschee, in der alle Geschlechter gemeinsam in einem Raum beten. Ausgerechnet Linke, Liberale und Feministinnen würden ihr vorwerfen, konservative Muslim*innen zu überfordern. "Sie fallen uns in den Rücken, in dem sie uns diffamieren", empört sich Ateş. "Mit denselben Argumenten wie die Muslimbrüder." Die heftigen Attacken der streitbaren Aktivistin verstören zunächst beim Hören des Podcasts. Sie wirken anfangs überzogen, zu sehr scheint sich die selbstgerechte Moscheegründerin in der Opferrolle zu gefallen. Und doch gelingt es ihr, das Gespräch nach und nach mit Argumenten herumzureißen und Verständnis für ihren Frust zu wecken. Immer wieder deckt sie etwa Doppelstandards der Politik im Umgang mit Religionen oder Feinden der Demokratie auf: "Sobald es um Rechtsextreme und AfD geht, ist man sehr klar, mit denen redet man nicht – aber wenn es um muslimische Identitäre geht, dann ist man verhalten." Auch wenn der orthodoxe Islam viel sichtbarer sei, handele sich bei der Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-Moschee um keine Sekte, stellt Seyran Ateş empört klar. "Säkulare Muslime sind in Deutschland keine kleine Minderheit", so die Imamin. Ihre Gemeinde sei "für sehr viele Muslime ein dankbares Geschenk". Weltweit gebe es Hunderte liberaler Moscheen. Ausführlich geht es im Podcast auch um den Kopftuchstreit, das Berliner Neutralitätsgesetz, islamischen Religionsunterricht und, ganz wichtig, Queerfeindlichkeit in migrantischen Communitys. Am Ende zieht Seyran Ateş eine vorsichtig optimistische Bilanz zur sexuellen Revolution im Islam: "Es gibt negative Entwicklungen, aber ich kann eher sagen, dass es sich verbessert." Bewegungen wie die ihre hätten "immer klein angefangen". An Ideen mangelt es Ateş übrigens nicht. Als nächstes wolle sie eine eigene Universität gründen, verrät sie im Gespräch mit Johannes Kram. Und auf der Turmstraße in Berlin-Moabit soll es demnächst unter dem Motto "Liebe ist halal" ein queeres muslimisches Straßenfest mit kleiner Parade geben. - Micha Schulze auf queer.de, 13. Juni 2021

Heute besprechen wir im JediCast ein Werk, das vielleicht einigen gar nicht bekannt ist und trotzdem so einzigartig im Star Wars-Universum beziehungsweise im Kosmos der Star Wars-Werke ist. Mit Star Wars Propaganda erzählt Pablo Hidalgo die Geschichte der Skywalker-Saga (bis einschließlich Episode VII) anhand der zeitgenössischen Propaganda der verschiedenen Seiten und gibt kurze Erklärungstexte zu den jeweiligen Postern ab. Bei der Vorbereitung des Podcasts kamen einige der Poster uns bekannt vor und so stellte sich heraus, dass viele identisch zu real existierenden Postern sind, die im Ersten oder Zweiten Weltkrieg erstellt wurden. Aus diesem Grund haben wir am Ende des Podcasts auch drei Beispiele genauer besprochen. Die Bilder dazu haben wir unten und im YouTube-Video für euch eingebunden. Außerdem stellen sich Ines, Florian und Tobias Fragen zu der Bedeutung der Propaganda im Universum rund um die Klonkriege und das Imperium, als auch zu der Frage, ob diese vielen, teilweise eindeutigen, Anspielungen an reale Poster ein Problem darstellen könnten. Darüber hinaus steht die Besprechung der Besonderheit der Darstellung von Klonsoldaten als Hoffnungsträger, als auch die Erkenntnis existierender Verschwörungsmythen im Star Wars-Universum im Mittelpunkt. Zeitmarken Hauptteil00:00:00 - Begrüßung00:00:50 - Einordnung des Werkes00:03:47 - Eine Singularität unter den Star Wars-Werken00:09:00 - Ein problematisches Werk? (siehe auch Ergänzung)00:12:49 - Die Besonderheit der Klonkriege00:20:11 - Bedeutung für das Universum00:27:43 - Inspirationsquellen00:28:40 - Welche Ären stechen hervor?00:36:32 - Allgemeines FazitDetailbesprechung00:41:05 - 1. Strength and Unity + Together00:46:03 - 2. Remember Alderaan + Remember Belgium00:51:14 - 3. Who's Pulling the Strings? + Endor is a Lie00:58:20 - Abschließende Worte Ergänzung Zu der Frage was ich von der Umsetzung und der teilweise starken Orientierung an real existierenden Propaganda-Postern des Zweiten Weltkrieges halte, möchte ich noch eine Sache ergänzen, die auch Ines kurz erwähnte und auch für mich dazu beiträgt, dass ich die Umsetzung in diesem Fall nicht sonderlich problematisch finde. Durch den Transport realer Propaganda ins Star Wars-Universum wird auch in gewisser Weise Aufmerksamkeit für genau diese Rolle von Kunst in Kriegszeiten erzeugt und wenn man dann noch (vielleicht aus seiner Schulzeit) das ein oder andere Poster im Stil wiedererkennt (was vor allem für Amerikaner der Fall sein sollte), dann führt das vielmehr dazu, dass man es als reales Thema begreift und sich danach vielleicht auch eher mit der wirklichen Geschichte hinter diesen Inspirationen auseinandersetzt. Deshalb mag ich auch die klassischen Assassin's Creed-Spiele, da sie für die reale Geschichte ein Interesse wecken können, das man sonst vielleicht nie entwickelt hätte. Selbst ich (als Teilzeit-Geschichts-Student) hätte wohl ohne diesen Podcast, und damit dieses Werk, niemals all die verschiedenen Inspirationen aus der realen Welt recherchiert und verglichen. Die Detailbetrachtungen 1. Strength and Unity Together Während das Poster aus dem Star Wars-Universum vor allem wegen Mas Ameddas Präsenz zerrissen wurde, stellt das Original-Poster die "Völker des Commonwealth" dar und stammt aus dem Jahr 1941. Im Lichte der britischen Kolonialgeschichte kann man das Poster heute sicherlich kontrovers betrachten, worauf wir auch in unserer Besprechung eingegangen sind. 2. Remember Alderaan Remember Belgium Während das Poster der Rebellion an Alderaan erinnert und dann laut dem Buch zu einem indirekten Rekrutierungsposter wurde, geht das Poster auf der rechten Seite offener mit der Notwendigkeit der Rekrutierung um. Es spielt auf die Verletzung der belgischen Neutralität durch Deutschland im Ersten Weltkrieg an und ruft die Briten 1915 zum Eintritt in den Militärdienst auf, da die Wehrpflicht erst 1916 eingeführt wurde. 3. Who's Pulling the Strings? Endor is a Lie Auf der linken Seite thront ein Hutte als Puppenspieler über den ikonisch gekleideten Rebellen, während (damals noch im Glauben Episode IX würde nie geschehen) auf dem rechten Poster eine falsche Botschaft versendet wird, um das Imperium zusammenzuhalten. Beide können gut mit Verschwörungsideologien und "Fake News" verglichen werden und wurden deshalb von uns genauer besprochen. Blick in die Datenbank Star Wars Propaganda erschien bisher nur im englischen Original im Oktober 2016 beim HarperCollins-Verlag und wurde zwei Monate später noch um eine Ebook-Version ergänzt. Eine deutsche Veröffentlichung war und ist bis auf weiteres nicht geplant. Die Rezension Kurz nach Release hat Florian das Werk für euch rezensiert und vor allem die Inspirationen als auch die Verbindung von enzyklopäischer Prosa und In-Universe Erzählkunst gelobt. Den JediCast abonnieren Wir sind auf allen gängigen Podcast-Plattformen vertreten! Abonniert uns also gerne auf Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts (etc.), oder fügt bequem unsere Feeds in euren präferierten Podcast-Player wie Podcast Addict ein. Alle Links dazu findet ihr oben unter dem Player. Sollte eurer Meinung nach noch ein wichtiger Anbieter fehlen, teilt uns das gerne in den Kommentaren oder per Mail an podcast@jedi-bibliothek.de mit!

Wir machen eine kleine Zeitreise ins Jahr 1989 und lesen aus der BRAVO. Seien wir doch mal ganz ehrlich wir alle haben sie gelesen und unsere Zimmer mit Postern daraus geschmückt oder sogar den Starschnitt zusammen gestückelt. Naja viel Spaß beim anhören. Folge direkt herunterladen

Rubrik: Mikes Nähkästchen. Mit liebevollen Worten spricht Mike über seine Fanliebe zu Whigfield. Was eigentlich nur Täuschung war, denn insgeheim waren es die typischen 90er Konsorten die auch Mike in seiner Jugend (die Kinderzimmerwand mit Postern vollgeklebt) in Dauerschleife hörte. Übrigens: Jules Gesangskünste stellen euch auf die Probe. Viel Spaß beim reinhören!

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Unsere erste Interviewfolge ist fertig! Katrin hat sich mit einer ganz tollen Frau getroffen: Dunja Schnabel. Illustratorin von Kinderbüchern, Schulbüchern, Postern u.v.m.! Und sie ist nicht nur richtig gut in dem, was sie tut, sondern auch noch unglaublich sympathisch dabei. Und sie hat – kaum zu glauben, aber wahr – wimmelige 16 Geschwister. Es gab also viel zu bereden und es war eine Freude, ihr zuzuhören. Mehr zu Literaturkakao findest du auf unserer Webseite www.literaturkakao.de Folgt uns auf instagram.com/literaturkakao S H O W N O T E S STAFFEL 1 FOLGE 7 Titel: „Hund, Katze, Maus ... Haus!“ Autorin & Illustratorin: Dunja Schnabel Verlag / Erscheinungsjahr: Carlsen, 2015 Empfohlenes Lesealter: Ab 2 Jahren Titel: „Jetzt bestimme ich, ich, ich!“ Autorin: Juli Zeh Illustratorin: Dunja Schnabel Verlag / Erscheinungsjahr: Carlsen, 2020 Empfohlenes Lesealter: ab 4 Jahren Titel: „Hase, Fuchs und Reh fahren ... LKW!“ Autorin und Illustratorin: Dunja Schnabel Verlag / Erscheinungsjahr: Carlsen, 2017 (3. Auflage) Empfohlenes Lesealter: ab 2 Jahren Titel: „Ping Pong Pinguin!“ Autor*innen: Fredrik Vahle, Renate Zimmer Illustratorin: Dunja Schnabel Fotografin: Nadine Vierer Verlag / Erscheinungsjahr: Herder, 2016 (2. Auflage) Empfohlenes Lesealter: 3- 6 Jahre

Harte Kontraste, Lavalampen, aufblasbare Sofa und die Wand bis auf den letzten freien Fleck mit Postern zugekleistert - die Kinder- und Jugendzimmer der 90er waren bunt. Welche Poster an den Wänden bei Micaela Schäfer waren und wie ihr Teenie-Zimmer eingerichtet war, erzählt sie Oli.P bei "90er Kids"!

Der Weg von Postern mit Sinnsprüchen zu echter Kultur kann nur über die Führungskräfte gehen. Dazu braucht es Klarheit und Empathie. Dr. Saskia Wallner, Leiterin der Kommunikationsberatung Ketchum Publico über Kommunikation in Krisenzeiten.

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Der ein oder andere hat Disney gar nicht mehr auf dem Zettel. Und das ist wirklich schade, denn Disneys CEO Bob Iger hat ein hervorragendes Buch auf den Markt geworfen, über das ich heute gerne mit euch sprechen möchte: The Ride of a Lifetime. Denn ich habe vieles aus diesem Buch gelernt.  Genauer gesagt, spreche ich heute mit euch über 5 Unternehmertipps aus diesem Buch. Vielleicht habt ihr in letzter Zeit Poster zu Disney+ gesehen. An diesen Postern kann man gut sehen, was sich bei Disney gerade tut und was alles darunter hängt. Vieles ist am Ende auch maßgeblich unter Bob Iger passiert.  Was vielen gar nicht bewusst ist, ist welche Dinge mittlerweile alle zu Disney gehören: Da wäre Marvel, Pixar, Lukas Film, Star Wars, Sky, ESPN, 20th Century Fox uvm. So gut wie alle Animationsfilme kommen von Disney!  Ich hatte den Konzern “Walt Disney” eigentlich gar nicht mehr so auf dem Zettel. Für mich war das immer ein Unternehmen, das ich mit Mickey Mouse und den ganzen Comics verbunden habe. Dass Disney mittlerweile deutlich größer als das sind, war mir gar nicht so bewusst. Zum Beispiel, dass sie Marvel gekauft haben oder Pixar und ESPN oder Sportsender in Amerika dazu gehören - bis ich dieses Buch in den Händen gehalten habe. Bob Iger war über 15 Jahre CEO bei Disney und über 45 Jahre in dem Konzern tätig und hat dieses Unternehmen maßgeblich in die Zukunft geführt. Mit Disney+ hat er es geschafft, Disney wieder nach vorne zu bringen, modern zu machen und auf Augenhöhe mit digitalen Giganten wie Netflix und Amazon Prime zu bringen.  Des Weiteren habe ich heute eine große Ankündigung zu machen, was ich dir am Ende dieser Podcastfolge verraten möchte: Aber eins vorneweg - die nächste Podcastfolge wird ein wenig anders sein.    Wir sprechen deshalb in dieser Episode daher über folgende Dinge:  Idee 1: CEO zu werden ist vergleichbar mit einem Wahlkampf! Bob Iger traf sich eines Tages mit einem Freund, der Wahlkampfmanager war und in der Vorbereitung zu dem Boardmeeting, hat er sich überlegt, weshalb es nicht seine Schuld war, dass die letzten fünf Jahre nicht gut gelaufen sind und gleichzeitig wollte er den schmalen Grat hinbekommen, seinen ehemaligen Chef nicht in die Grütze zu fahren. Da sagte ihm der Wahlkampfmanager, dass das Board sich dafür überhaupt nicht interessiert. Er sagte: “Das Board will hören, was deine Vision für Disney ist und was die drei Kernstrategien sind, die du verfolgst und in den nächsten Jahren umsetzen willst.”   Idee 2: Es geht immer um die Zukunft - Bobs drei Strategien. Bobs drei Strategien waren zum einen “High Quality Content”, denn darunter hatte Disney in den Jahren davor sehr gelitten. Die Animationen waren nicht mehr die Animationen, die sie einmal waren.  Die zweite Strategie war “Use technology to advantage”. Denn ganz viele Unternehmen und auch alt eingesessene Unternehmen haben sich schwer mit dem digitalen Wandel getan. Also dachte Bob, wir können nicht gegen die Technologie kämpfen, sondern müssen das für uns nutzen. Es muss Teil der DNA werden, um wieder aufzuholen.  Und die dritte Strategie war “Global Brand Awareness”. Dass Disney also nicht nur in Amerika groß wird, sondern global gesehen.  Letztendlich hat er mit diesen Strategien den Posten als CEO angeboten bekommen.  Idee 3: Wettbewerb gibt Sicherheit.  Das hat mich dazu bewegt einmal über meine Visionen nachzudenken. Ich hatte es bereits in einer der vergangenen Folgen für dich heruntergebrochen und es sind zum einen Videomarketing, Bestandskundenentwicklung und zum anderen Innovation. Wenn man sich den Gründer von PayPal anschaut, dann hat auch er gesagt “Wettbewerb gibt Sicherheit”. Denn wenn wir Selbstständig werden, dann schauen wir immer, ob es auch andere gibt, die mit dem eigenen Thema unterwegs sind. Wenn ja, dann gibt uns das die Sicherheit, dass auch wir damit erfolgreich sein können. Allerdings beginnt die Magie dort, wenn man Dinge macht, die sonst niemand macht! Idee 4: The relentless Pursuit of Perfection! Das ist das Motto von Bob Iger, welches sich durch das gesamte Buch zieht. Übersetzt heißt es soviel wie “Das ständige Verfolgen von Perfektion”. Das ist etwas, was wir bei uns witzigerweise auch in den letzten Monaten implementiert haben. Jetzt sehe ich auch erst, wie viel auch aus den Ideen von Bob Iger entstanden ist. Der Gedanke: Weniger, aber besser.  Auch die Marke BRAUN hat immer gesagt, dass sie versuchen, weniger Funktionen und weniger bzw. schlichtes Design, aber dafür viel bessere Produkte zu erstellen.  Auch wir haben intern bei uns die “Weniger-aber-besser-Kampagne” gestartet. Wir wollen weniger Internetseiten, dafür viel bessere. Wir wollen weniger Facebook-Anzeigen machen, dafür bessere.Wir wollen weniger Kunden, dafür einen viel besseren Job machen und somit auch bessere Kunden haben, die das umzusetzen, was wir ihnen geben. Idee 5: Bobs Freundschaft zu Steve Jobs - der Perspektivenwechsel.   Als Bob nun CEO geworden ist, hat er sich mit Steve in Verbindung gesetzt und dabei kam Pixar zustande und infolgedessen haben sie einen Blockbuster nach dem nächsten rausgehen: Toy Story, Nemo uvm. Daraufhin hat Bob wieder Steve angerufen und ihn gefragt, wie es wohl wäre, wenn Pixar von Disney gekauft wird. Und Bob hatte höllische Angst, dass Steve das für schwachsinnig hält. Steve war aber ganz cool und meinte, dass er sich das vorstellen könnte und hat sich darauf eingelassen. Sie haben sich also getroffen, ein Whiteboard erstellt und die Vor- und Nachteile aufgeschrieben.  Am Ende kam heraus, dass es mehr Nach- als Vorteile gab. Bob war also gar nicht mehr von Idee angetan, aber Steve war da ganz anders drauf! Denn er hat die Punkte gewichten können und fand die Nachteile banal. Die Vorteile sah er sehr groß, also ist es letztendlich doch zum Kauf gekommen. Das war sehr spannend, weil es am Ende auch wieder auf Bobs drei Strategien zurückgeht. Nämlich “High Qualtiy Content”. Manchmal macht es Sinn, aus der Perspektive anderer zu sehen.   The Ride of a Lifetime Bootcamp - mehr erfahren Stay Hungry Community Stay Hungry Blog Trag dich hier für das Webinar ein  Case Study Kostenloses Consulting-Training Roberts Webseite Robert bei Facebook Robert bei Instagram Kontakt und Interviewanfragen

Leitartikel von Christian Rainer. Über die Koalitionsvarianten (mit einem Ausflug zu Glawischnig, Facebook und den Postern).

so lautet der alte Spruch, der uns noch in den Pausenhofohren von früher klingelt. Auf der einen Seite erweitert man sein Spektrum an möglichen sexuellen Bimspartnern. Auf der anderen Seite… Gibt es überhaupt Nachteile? In unserer Hörermail verschwindet überraschend ein Lachs houdiniartig in einem an der Hotelbar kennengelernten Piloten und der Bimspilot fragt sich am Ende, ob er nach zwei Jahrzehnten der Strömung zum Trotz doch ans andere Ufer geschwommen ist. Wir mussten mal mit dem Bimsstein das alte Bild wegrubbeln. Mit 5 Jahren auf dem Rahmen gehört es ins Louvre. Kuss ans alte Bild. Poklapser aufs neue. Unser Sponsor von dieser Woche: **Vodafone Callya Digital** CallYa Digital Entdeck die Power von Vodafone mit maximaler Flexibilität. 10 GB, 20 € Für 4 Wochen Allnet Flat. Vodafone 4G|LTE Max. Ohne Laufzeit. http://www.vodafone.de/freikarten/callya-digital **www.Desenio.de** Desenio bietet eine große Auswahl an stylischen Wandbildern und Kunstdrucken, die die neuesten Trends aus dem Wohndesign aufnehmen – immer zu günstigen Preisen und in hoher Qualität. Wir wissen, welche Wirkung gute Kunst in Wohnräumen hat. Deswegen bieten wir eine große Auswahl vorwiegend skandinavischer Kunstmotive. Mit unseren Postern kannst du mit ganz einfachen Mitteln deiner Persönlichkeit in deinen Wohnräumen Ausdruck verleihen und genau die Atmosphäre erzeugen, die dir vorschwebt. Kunst soll für alle da sein Der persönlicher 30% Rabattcode "BESTEFREUNDINNEN" ist 8 Tage im Zeitraum vom 12.-19.September gültig. Der Code gilt nur für reguläre Poster

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Wiederholte Probleme haben am Ruf der Berliner Polizei gekratzt. Mit Hilfe von Postern und einem Werbefilm soll der Beruf der Beamten wieder nun wieder attraktiver für Berufseinsteiger werden.

Comedienne, Vloggerin, Influencerin und Festival-Expertin Matilde Keizer setzt sich in Berlin beim "DAS Improv Festival" Live mit den Onis zusammen um das perfekte Festival zu planen. Nicht fehlen darf Metallica, gute Security und die Gesichter der Onis auf allen Postern!

Jede freie Zimmerecke mit Postern tapeziert, Boybands zu Konzerten hinterherreisen und den heißesten Gossip über unsere Lieblingssänger in Jugendzeitschriften suchten: Früher sammelten wir jeden Schnipsel über unsere Teenie-Idole. Heute bekommen Fans alle privaten News direkt im Internet präsentiert. In dieser Folge Female AF sprechen Linda und Insa über Vorbilder. Wen haben sie früher angehimmelt? Wer sind die neuen Vorbilder in Zeiten von Instagram und YouTube? Hört rein für überraschende Geständnisse und eine Abrechnung mit der ach so glamourösen Social Media Scheinwelt. Noch mehr "Female As Fuck": www.cosmopolitan.de/female-af-podcast Hinterlasst uns gerne eine Bewertung auf iTunes und schickt uns eure Meinungen oder Themenvorschläge auf Instagram: www.instagram.com/female.af.official/

Plot-Twist: Wir reden über "The LEGO Movie 2" und "Drachenzähmen leicht gemacht 3: Die geheime Welt". Außerdem noch über "The Prodigy" und den umstrittenen "Holmes & Watson". Und mit wir, meinen wir Etienne, Simon, Andre Hecker und Schröck. Und weil die Vier eine doch recht überschaubare Kinowoche vor sich haben, bleibt viel Zeit für jede Menge anderen Shizzle. Zum Beispiel die Plakate und Trailer zu "Scary Stories to tell in the Dark" oder zum neuen Film über "Nancy Drew". Oder für News. So gibt es unter anderem Beef zwischen Matthew McConaughey und dem Studio Aviron Pictures, die der Schauspieler für das schlechte Einspiel seines Films "Im Netz der Versuchung" verantwortlich macht. Daneben verteilen wir ein wenig Vorfreude zu Denis Villeneuves "Dune" oder schmunzeln zum Manipulations-"Skandal" im Rahmen der "Goldene Himbeere"-Verleihung. Und natürlich dürfen zwei Themen nicht fehlen. Zum einen die Oscars, bzw die Oscar-Academy, die mehr vor- und zurückrudert als der Deutschland-Achter in einem Goldmedaillen-Rennen. Zum anderen Liam Neeson und seine Aussagen anlässlich eines Interview-Junkets zu seinem neuen Film "Hard Powder" oder eben "Cold Pursuit". Aber da noch immer noch ein wenig Zeit übrig bleibt, gibt es auch noch was zu verlosen: die "Psycho - Legacy Collection", acht Blu-rays, mit allen "Psycho"-Teilen, einem TV-Film, Postern, Dokumentationen und allem drum und dran. Mehr geht nicht. Höchstens noch ein paar Trailer. Ganz vorne: "Der goldene Handschuh" von Fatih Akin, der hierzulande nur mit der FSK18-Altersfreigabe erscheinen wird. Plus: "What we do in Shadows", eine Serie, auf die wir uns sehr freuen, und "Hobbs & Shaw", der neue Nonsens-Over the top-Actioner aus dem "Fast & Furious"-Universum. Das soll's dann aber so gut wie gewesen sein. Bleibt uns nur noch, Euch ein schönes Wochenende, viel Spaß im Kino und sowohl "The LEGO Movie 2" als auch "Drachenzähmen leicht gemacht 3: Die geheime Welt" möglichst viele von Euch als Zuschauer zu wünschen. Aber natürlich dürft Ihr Euch auch mit "The Prodigy" gruseln oder checken, ob "Holmes & Watson" seinem Ruf wirklich gerecht wird. Mit besten Grüßen: Kinoplus.

"Ich finde es immer etwas schade, wenn die Abgrenzung zwischen Vulva und Vagina nicht korrekt stattfindet", hat uns ein Hörer geschrieben. Die Vermischung der Begriffe zeige, dass eine richtige Auseinandersetzung mit dem weiblichen Organ bis heute nicht wirklich stattgefunden habe, heißt es in seiner Mail weiter. Und tatsächlich fällt es Frauen und Männern schwer zu beantworten: Was genau ist die Vulva? Wo fängt sie an? Wo hört sie auf? Vagina, Gebärmutter, Eierstöcke, Blase und Darm – all das ist auf Postern in der Praxis oder im Biologiebuch abgebildet. Die äußeren Geschlechtsorgane aber bleiben unsichtbar, als gäbe es sie nicht. Das sollte sich ändern, die Vulva mehr Aufmerksamkeit bekommen, sagt die Ärztin und Sexualtherapeutin Melanie Büttner. Weiter spricht sie darüber, welche Wirkung es auf die sexuelle Entwicklung von Kindern hat, wenn Erwachsene ihre Genitalien gar nicht oder falsch benennen, und schlägt vor, wie sich die Ärzteschaft bestenfalls in die laufende gesellschaftliche Debatte einbringt. Sexpodcast-Quickies sind kurze Folgen von "Ist das normal?", in denen Melanie Büttner einzelne Hörerfragen aufgreift. Ihr habt eine Frage? Irgendetwas, was ihr schon immer über Sex wissen wolltet? Schreibt uns per E-Mail oder nehmt eine Sprachnachricht auf und schickt sie an istdasnormal@zeit.de. Alle Folgen und Quellen von "Ist das normal?" finden sich auf www.zeit.de/sexpodcast.

Jeder kennt ihn, jeder hat ihn schon einmal gehört. Der Kalenderspruch „Hinfallen, Aufstehen, Krönchen richten“ ist in aller Munde und ein gern gesehenes Motiv auf Postkarten, Postern oder anderen Dekorations-Utentsilien. Was aber steckt eigentlich hinter diesem Spruch und welche Botschaft verbirgt sich hinter diesen vier Worten?! In der heutigen Folge geht Damian dem einmal auf den Grund und verrät Dir außerdem, wann der richtige Zeitpunkt gekommen ist, um aufzugeben. Wir wünschen Dir viel Spaß und Freude beim Anhören und Entdecken der neuen Folge!

 Durch die heutige Episode des DURCHSTARTER PODCASTS hast auch Du einen neuen Blickwinkel auf den Spruch „Hinfallen, Aufstehen, Krönchen richten“ erhalten und neue Gedankenimpulse bekommen? Das freut uns RIESIG! Um ganz sicher zu gehen, gib uns doch heute eine 5-Sterne-Bewertung, schreibe eine Rezension auf iTunes und abonniere den DURCHSTARTER-PODCAST. Wenn Du magst, teile diesen Podcast auch mit Deinen Freunden und Bekannten, so wirst auch Du zu einem Impulsgeber im Leben anderer Menschen. Und gemeinsames Wachstum macht bekanntlich doppelt Freude! Mehr Motivation und Erfolgstipps von Damian auf weiteren Plattformen: ▶︎ Folge Damian auf Facebook: www.facebook.com/DamianRichterOfficial/  ▶︎ Hole Dir den weltweit ersten Motivation-Newsletter direkt auf Dein Handy und erhalte jeden Morgen einen ganz persönlichen Impuls für mehr Energieeinen energievollen Start in den Tag unter: www.damian-richter.com/whatsapp-newsletter

Sie waren DAS Traumpaar in der Bürgeramts- und Kreditkartenszene, ihre persönlichen Angaben auf Postern und Beispielkarten sind hierzulande fast allen vertraut. Doch nun ist die heile Welt von Max und ...

Story: San Francisco in den 60er Jahren: Margaret, geschieden und alleinerziehend, lernt bei einer Kunstausstellung Walter Keane kennen und lieben. Mit dem charmanten, eloquenten Mann erhofft sie sich endlich das schöne Leben, von dem sie bislang nur geträumt hat. Überzeugt vom künstlerischen Talent seiner Frau, versucht Walter ihre Bilder zu Geld zu machen. Nur leider will keine Galerie die Gemälde von Kindern mit großen, traurigen Augen ausstellen. Kurzerhand verkauft Walter die Bilder selbst und gibt sich als Urheber der "Big Eyes" aus. Schon bald macht der brillante Geschäftsmann mit dem Verkauf von Postkarten, Postern und Drucken Millionen - zu tausenden finden die "Big Eyes" ihren Weg in die Wohnzimmer Amerikas. Unter der führenden Hand von Walter hütet auch Margaret das Geheimnis, wer die Bilder erschaffen hat. Doch bald kann sie nicht länger mit der Lüge leben... DVD/Blu Ray-Release: 03.09.2015 (STUDIOCANAL) Drama, Biografie Land: USA 2014 Laufzeit: ca. 107 min. FSK: 0 Regie: Tim Burton Drehbuch: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski Mit Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, ... https://youtu.be/XWbmmqXEBaA

Story: San Francisco in den 60er Jahren: Margaret, geschieden und alleinerziehend, lernt bei einer Kunstausstellung Walter Keane kennen und lieben. Mit dem charmanten, eloquenten Mann erhofft sie sich endlich das schöne Leben, von dem sie bislang nur geträumt hat. Überzeugt vom künstlerischen Talent seiner Frau, versucht Walter ihre Bilder zu Geld zu machen. Nur leider will keine Galerie die Gemälde von Kindern mit großen, traurigen Augen ausstellen. Kurzerhand verkauft Walter die Bilder selbst und gibt sich als Urheber der "Big Eyes" aus. Schon bald macht der brillante Geschäftsmann mit dem Verkauf von Postkarten, Postern und Drucken Millionen - zu tausenden finden die "Big Eyes" ihren Weg in die Wohnzimmer Amerikas. Unter der führenden Hand von Walter hütet auch Margaret das Geheimnis, wer die Bilder erschaffen hat. Doch bald kann sie nicht länger mit der Lüge leben... DVD/Blu Ray-Release: 03.09.2015 (STUDIOCANAL) Drama, Biografie Land: USA 2014 Laufzeit: ca. 107 min. FSK: 0 Regie: Tim Burton Drehbuch: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski Mit Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, ... https://youtu.be/XWbmmqXEBaA

Fast hätte es nicht geklappt mit dem Interview, weil Götz noch seinen isländischen Praktikanten zum Zahnarzt fahren musste. Notfall! Es ging dann doch. Götz erzählt, was ihn an Postern begeistert und wie er zum Multi-Wettbewerbsausrichter wurde. Dem Praktikanten geht's übrigens wieder gut. Hinweis: Als der formfunk nicht mehr war als eine Idee, traf ich mich mit Götz für ein erstes Interview. Eine Pilotfolge. Audio-Qualität und Interview-Konzept sind noch nicht ganz ausgereift, aber das Gespräch war so gut, dass es unbedingt veröffentlicht werden muss. Götz Gramlich, 41, ist seit 10 Jahren selbständiger Grafikdesigner. Er organisiert Plakatwettbewerbe und gewinnt welche, gerne auch beides auf einmal. Der zweifache Studienabbrecher arbeitete für Niklaus Troxler und unterrichtet heute an der Hochschule Mannheim. 0:49 Götz' Website5:38 100 beste Plakate12:45 Thilo Kasper interviewt Claire Doutriaux von Arte17:37 Poster: „Victory“19:09 Poster: Shigeo Fukuda, „Victory 1945“19:48 Poster: „Palestine is our home“21:48 Poster: Götz Gramlich, Steiner Roastery23:03 UV-Direktdruck (Wikipedia)24:21 KA30026:45 Gil Scott-Heron: I'm New Here (YouTube)29:28 Mut zur Wut30:34 Marcello Lucas, Plakatierer33:54 Milton Glaser: The Design of Dissent37:43 Gesellschaft für Innovative Marktforschung40:40 Kendrick Lamar: King Kunta (YouTube)45:02 Weltformat Plakatwettbewerb46:34 Eli Schiff: Fall of the Designer

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Vor einiger Zeit war ich im Franz-Marc-Museum in Kochel. Weil Sara mich gebeten hat, über deutsche Kunst zu sprechen, werde ich das heute tun. Ich werde Euch etwas erzählen vom Blauen Reiter. Der Blaue Reiter war ein Künstlerkreis in München. Gegründet wurde er von Franz Marc und Wassily Kandinsky 1911. Sie wollten die festgefahrenen Traditionen der akademischen Malerei befreien. Mit dabei waren auch August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky und Kandinskys Lebensgefährtin Gabriele Münter. Sie alle sind bis heute berühmte Künstler, deren Werke in vielen Museen weltweit zu sehen sind. Gemeinsam brachten sie einen Almanach heraus und organisierten Ausstellungen. Die abstrakten, farbenfrohen und oft grafisch wirkenden Bilder von Wassily Kandinsky sind bis heute auf Postern, Postkarten und allen möglichen anderen Gegenständen zu sehen. Er ist eigentlich schon fast ein Pop-Art-Künstler, auch wenn er natürlich offiziell nicht zu dieser Gruppe gehört. Franz Marc ist berühmt geworden durch seine immer weiter verfremdeten Bilder von Pferden und anderen Tieren. Besonders interessant ist es, wenn man in Bayern nach den Spuren dieser Künstler sucht. Zum Beispiel lebten sie lange in Schwabing, genauer gesagt in der Ainmillerstraße. Schwabing ist ein Stadtteil von München, der in den 20er-Jahren berühmt war für seine Künstlerateliers. Hier in den Kneipen trafen sich berühmte Autoren und Maler. Wenn die Künstler genug hatten von der Stadt, gingen sie aufs Land. Franz Marc und Kandinsky ließen sich in Murnau nieder, am Kochelsee. Es ist wunderschön dort – man fährt von München aus gut eine Stunde mit dem Auto Richtung Süden und in die Alpen hinein. Und dort steht dann zum einen das so genannte Russenhaus, in dem Kandinsky und Münter lebten, und das gerade modernisierte und erweiterte Franz-Marc-Museum. Es ist tragisch, dass einige dieser interessanten Künstler so jung gestorben sind. Franz Marc und August Macke fielen im Ersten Weltkrieg, Marc war gerade mal 36 Jahre alt. Kandinsky ging zurück nach Rußland und lebte später in Paris, wo er 1944 starb. Der Blaue Reiter existierte nicht mehr, und München war nicht länger eine internationale Kunst- und Kulturhauptstadt. Wenn Ihr nach München kommt, dann müsst Ihr unbedingt in das Lenbachhaus gehen. Das Lenbachhaus ist mein Lieblingsmuseum. Es ist eine schöne Villa, die beinahe so aussieht, als stünde sie in der Toskana. Dabei liegt sie mitten in München, gleich in der Nähe des Königsplatzes. Hier sind viele Bilder des Blauen Reiter zu sehen, viele davon wurden von Gabriele Münter der Stadt München geschenkt. Im Moment ist eine Kandinsky-Sonderausstellung hier zu sehen, die später in diesem Jahr nach Paris weiterzieht und nach New York. Was die deutsche Kunstszene heute macht? Sie ist weiterhin lebendig. Es gibt einige große Namen, hauptsächlich allerdings sind es Männer. Zum Beispiel Jörg Immendorff und Georg Baselitz. Ich empfehle Euch die Werke von Gerhard Richter, vor allem die älteren Gemälde von ihm. Text der Episode als PDF: https://slowgerman.com/folgen/sg46kurz.pdf