96 Christmas at War with the V1 missiles - 2023
Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
Christmas at war, with more seasonal tales, including a special feature on what Christmas was like in various countries around the globe during WW2. Specials in this episode:German Boy Soldier's Christmas Shoes V1 Doodlebug bombs over Manchester The Last Flight of Lancaster DV189 The Journal of Flight Sergeant Jim Browning Christmas at war around the world And just to remind you, if you want to fill your December with a catch up on all the previous Christmas episodes for this podcast, you can access them easily by clicking on the episodes item on the website menu and selecting -...
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95 Dunkirk Special PART TWO Bob Metcalfe WW2 memoirs
Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
PART TWO Featuring No time for dreams: a soldier’s six-year journey through World War II. By Robert W. Metcalfe, 4th Green Howards. PLUS: What someone's father found in the jungle AFTER the war. Who wrote to Bob Metcalfe upon publication of his book. Full show notes, photos and transcript at: Reviews on main website: Apple reviews: Follow me on Twitter: Follow me on Facebook: YouTube Channel: Buy Me a Coffee: Patreon: Links to features in the show: Thomas W Gray story - The Eighth Air Force Historical Society (official) Facebook page: WW2 Stories...
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94 Dunkirk Special PART ONE - Bob Metcalfe British Canadian, Green Howard WW2 history
Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
Featuring No time for dreams: a soldier’s six-year journey through World War II. By Robert W. Metcalfe, 4th Green Howards Bob Metcalf enlisted in the fourth battalion, the Green Howards in December 1935. He saw action in France in 1940, where he was wounded. Subsequently, he served with the sixth battalion, the Green Howards, and the western desert, in Sicily, and was part of a British increment that fought with the fifth United States Army in Italy. After the war, Bob lived in Canada and became a Canadian citizen. He wrote his memoir in the early 1970’s. Plus loads of family...
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93 The 82nd airborne Part 2, letters from Sicily and Italy WW2
Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
More from Dave Thomas about his father’s exploits in the 82nd airborne in Italy. Preview of The Secret Beach: A Kids World War 2 Adventure. By James Papalia Green Howards feature - online Sicily exhibition Telephone chat with veteran Ken Cooke who has some more titbits to share with us about his time in Normandy, with an absolutely superb explanation about what it was like fighting in the French bocage. Loads of family stories! More great unpublished history of world war two! Full show notes, photos and transcript at: Reviews on main website: Apple reviews: Follow me on Twitter: ...
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92 The 82nd airborne Part 1, letters from Sicily/Italy
Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
A great family story from Dave Thomas about his father’s exploits in the 82nd airborne in Sicily and Italy. Telephone chat with veteran Ken Cooke who has some more titbits to share with us about his time in Normandy, with an absolutely superb explanation about what it was like fighting in the French bocage. Interview with Claire and Steve from the Soldier’s Charity about a very special Normandy tour you will wish to join later this year. Loads of family stories! Full show notes, photos and transcript at: Reviews on main website: Apple reviews: Follow me on Twitter: Follow me on...
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91 Kisses on a Postcard - Child evacuees of WW2 - Interview with Dominic Frisby
Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
An interview with Dominic Frisby. The Kisses on a Postcard musical charts the true story of two young British evacuees during WW2. Features mystery postcard messages, the bombing of Plymouth, American GI's and crashing German bombers. Dominic’s work is full to bursting with Dunkirk spirit, steam trains and all the best of WW2 Britishness. And never ever was an episode better timed to coincide with world events. More great unpublished history of the second world war! Buy the book, the CD's, hear the musical as a podcast. All links and pod players at: Reviews on main website: Apple...
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90 Alf Blackburn Part 2, British Infantry War Memoirs, WWII
Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
Part 2 A classic tale of British infantry adventure in WW2. How the Fighting Through WW2 memoirs podcast put the families of two war comrades in touch with each other. Sicily and D-Day campaigns featured. Durham Light Infantry DLI and Green Howards feature. More great unpublished history! Buy Alf Blackburn's War Memoirs at: Full show notes, photos and transcript at:https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/90-Alfred-Blackburn-War-Memoirs-Part-2 Rennie Shaw Augie Herchenratter Men of Worth project Reviews on main website: Apple reviews: Follow me on Twitter: Follow me on Facebook:...
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89 Alf Blackburn Part 1, British Infantry War Memoirs, WWII
Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
A classic tale of British infantry adventure in WW2. How the Fighting Through WW2 memoirs podcast put the families of two war comrades in touch with each other. Sicily and D-Day campaigns featured. More great unpublished history! Buy Alf Blackburn's War Memoirs at: Full show notes, photos and transcript at: Rennie Shaw Augie Herchenratter Men of Worth project Reviews on main website: Apple reviews: Follow me on Twitter: Follow me on Facebook: YouTube Channel:
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88 Christmas/Hogmanay at War 2022 WWII
Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
Celebrating another Christmas at war and indeed Hogmanay, with a Christmas stocking absolutely heaving with seasonal tales of goodwill. More great unpublished Christmassy! Full show notes, photos and transcript at: Support Ukraine: Yorkshire Aid Convoy Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal Red Cross/ Disasters Emergency Committee Edinburgh pubs: In search of the pub at Hogmanay - Facebook - Edinburgh Past and Present Anderson shelters Spotify playlist – German war songs POW letters home Douglas Bader report A Short History Of The Aden Emergency Sound Effects from Pixabay ...
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87 German Boy Soldier 2 - Save the Last Bullet
Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
Previewing the newly published book, Save the Last Bullet, about a German boy soldier in the Nazi army. "This is the story of my father's traumatic ordeal as a boy soldier in Hitler's Army. It is an account in his own words of the horrors of the Third Reich, witnessed and experienced from his perspective as a child." Heidi Langbein. Hear the chapter on Military Training. Plus more family stories and WW2 ghost story from James Papalia, aged 7! More great unpublished history! British Normandy Memorial Shop - Bill Vickers Buy the Book, Save the Last Bullet: ...
info_outline28 Wilf Shaw RIP Tribute
It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of WWII veteran Wilf Shaw in hospital on 21 March 2018. His family advise that he passed away very peacefully in the early hours in hospital. He had enjoyed exceptional health for his age until a few weeks ago, when the breathing difficulties he had had trouble with during the past eighteen months worsened quite dramatically.
Special episode about WW2 veteran Wilf Shaw RIP. Listener tributes plus the best and funniest parts of his interviews. "You were always a rebel Wilf and it was those types of blokes who won this bloody War for us" Fred Zilken.
RIP Private Shaw W, 4753850
Called up on 13 June 1940, 6th Battalion, Green Howards
Born 6 Feb 1920, Died 21 March 2018, Aged 98
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