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Gunfire in the Woods: A foiled escape and imprisonment in Cold War East Germany
Season 19 Episode 308
This is part two of Henrik’s story. You can hear the first part in episode 307. https://coldwarconversations.com/episode307
It’s the late 1980s and He…
2 years, 6 months ago
Growing up in Cold War East Germany's Valley of the Clueless
Season 19 Episode 307
Henrik was born in the late 1960s near Dresden in East Germany. The area was sarcastically known as the Tal der Ahnungslosen or Valley of the Clueles…
2 years, 6 months ago
Flying the Cold War A10 Tankbuster Part 2
Season 19 Episode 306
You are listening to part 2 of my chat with Joe who joined the USAF in 1981 and was trained to fly the A10 Warthog a single-seat, twin-engine jet air…
2 years, 6 months ago
Flying the Cold War A10 Tankbuster Part 1
Season 19 Episode 305
Joe’s father served in World War 2 in the USAF. His service inspired Joe to try and join the USAF or the Naval Air Force despite having no flying exp…
2 years, 6 months ago
A Cold War Polish childhood near Wroclaw
Season 19 Episode 304
Tom lived in western Poland in an area that had been part of Germany until the end of World War 2. He describes how his grandmother settled in this a…
2 years, 7 months ago
Soviet MIG shoots-down a US RB-47H reconnaissance plane
Season 19 Episode 303
On 1 July 1960, a United States RB-47H reconnaissance plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing signals intelligence in t…
2 years, 7 months ago
The rise and fall of East German leader Erich Honecker
Season 19 Episode 302
Honecker emerged as an ambitious political player and became the shadowy mastermind behind the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, a crucial mom…
2 years, 7 months ago
US Army tank platoon commander in 1980s Cold War Korea
Season 19 Episode 301
Tom Sullivan was a tank platoon commander in Korea in the early 1980s responsible for six tanks and their crew
We hear why he joined the US Army, his …
2 years, 7 months ago
Assembling and delivering nuclear artillery rounds to the Cold War West German Army
Season 18 Episode 300
In February 1983 US soldier Manuel Alzager was sent to a mysterious posting to the British Zone in the north of West Germany a long way from the main…
2 years, 8 months ago
Dickey Chapelle - trailblazing female Cold War journalist
Season 18 Episode 299
Now have you ever heard of Dickey Chapelle? No, I hadn’t either, but I’m delighted to bring you the unknown story of this trailblazing female war cor…
2 years, 8 months ago