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'Chink' Eric Dorman-Smith
Episode 103
If you've ever read about the British experience in the Deserts of North Africa during WWII, one name usually gets a mention somewhere in the narrati…
6 years, 5 months ago
D-Day Through German Eyes
Episode 102
June 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of D-Day, we had a month of D-Day podcasts looking at the operation from the British, Canadian and American per…
6 years, 5 months ago
Operation CHASTISE: The Dambusters
Episode 101
On the night of May 16th, 1943, 19 Lancaster bombers took off from England heading toward the German industrial heartland of the Ruhr. They carried a…
6 years, 6 months ago
Left For Dead At Nijmegen
Episode 100
On the 17th September 1944 Gene Metcalfe, of the 82 Airbourne, parachuted in to Holland as part of Operation Market Garden. Approaching the bridge th…
6 years, 6 months ago
George Mergenthaler - MERG
Episode 99
One thing I've learned from producing these podcasts is the research never ends, it only leads to new avenues of interest branching off from the orig…
6 years, 6 months ago
Operation Market Garden
Episode 98
September 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, the allied attempt to create a sixty mile corridor, and secure a crossing over …
6 years, 7 months ago
Japanese POW: Ray Fitchett
Episode 97
Last year I got an email from Cole Gill, his grandfather had made a number of tape recordings recounting his experiences during the war serving on th…
6 years, 7 months ago
Bridge Busters: The Dortmund-Ems Canal Raid
Episode 96
In this episode we're looking at an RAF raid in 1940 against the Dortmund-Ems canal. The canal was a vital trade route with huge amounts of supplies …
6 years, 8 months ago
Jimmy Stewart
Episode 95
For a long time I've been fascinated by movie stars who chose to join the military and saw combat in World War Two. And one star in particular has al…
6 years, 8 months ago
1941: The Year Germany Lost WWII
Episode 94
The usual narrative for WWII is that turning points of the war are in 1942 with the battles of Midway, El Alamein and Stalingrad. While these are unq…
6 years, 9 months ago