North African Odyssey: Disaster At Oudna (Part 1)
WWII historian, author of Normandy '44, Sicily '43 and The Savage Storm
Essential · Edition 2026-07-10
The setup for one of the lesser-known British airborne disasters of the war: 2 Para's drop at Oudna in late 1942, poorly equipped and sent against objectives that made little operational sense. Holland walks through the planning failures and the limitations of early British airborne kit with real specificity — the kind of granular command-level detail that makes We Have Ways at its best. Essential context for Part 2.
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