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US Army Anti-Aircraft Missile Battery Command in Cold War West Germany
Season 21 Episode 228
Dan served as a lieutenant and captain in a US Army air defence artillery battalion in West Germany from 1980 until 1985.
He describes details of So…
2 years, 1 month ago
Britain's first Cold War Nuclear Attack Warning Station at Jodrell Bank
Season 21 Episode 327
The Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire in the UK played a significant secret role during the Cold War. It was established in 1945 by Bernard Lovell…
2 years, 2 months ago
The East German Tank Commander
Season 21 Episode 326
In the mid-1980s Dag was a T72 tank commander in the NVA, the East German Army and is now a volunteer at the Tank Museum at Bovington in
the UK.
He d…
2 years, 2 months ago
Twilight of the Soviet Union – Memoirs of a British Journalist in Moscow
Season 21 Episode 325
Kate is sent to Moscow in 1985 to write articles for The Morning Star, a left-wing British daily newspaper founded in 1930 as the Daily Worker by the…
2 years, 2 months ago
Further Cold War Tank Tales from the Land Down Under
Season 21 Episode 324
Tim participates in Kangaroo 89, a huge military exercise with the entire Australian Army using an area the size of Western Europe and we hear about …
2 years, 2 months ago
How To Catch A Cold War Spy
Season 21 Episode 323
Since 1985, Ana Montes has been an asset of the Cuban intelligence service. In that time, she’s risen through the ranks to become one of the Pentagon…
2 years, 2 months ago
Cold War, Warm Hearts - Hitchhiking behind the 1960s Iron Curtain
Season 21 Episode 322
In 1966 most of Bridget’s friends, in their early twenties, were settling down with jobs and/or husbands…
She, on the other hand, set off alone to tra…
2 years, 3 months ago
Cold War Tank Tales from the Land Down Under
Season 21 Episode 321
Many of Tim’s family had served in WW1 and WW2 and from a young age, he was determined to follow their path.
Overcoming huge competition for places h…
2 years, 3 months ago
Jack's dramatic Cold War escape across the fortified Inner German border
Season 20 Episode 320
Jack Wesolek was born in East Germany in 1966. His grandfather was a member of the Red Orchestra, a Communist Anti-Nazi resistance organisation in Ge…
2 years, 3 months ago
How President Kennedy's assassination almost started World War 3
Season 20 Episode 319
On 23rd Nov 1963 at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea a detachment of US Air Force B-57 Canberra bombers were parked on an alert pad each with a live nucl…
2 years, 3 months ago