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Three veterans' sons coming together to discuss all things D-Day 80. Facts, stats, legacy, beaches, movies and … more beaches. A discussion amongst Angus Wallace of the WW2 Podcast, Steve Erskine, curator and researcher at the Green Howard's museum and myself, Paul Cheall.
PS During the discussion, I dismally failed to answer Angus's question about how many chapters of Dad’s book covered the beaches. The answer is …. One! There are five chapters in total for the Normandy campaign itself!
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A special episode to commemorate the events of D-Day 6 June 44. The 80th anniversary. Four veteran accounts of the landings.
D-Day Episodes mentioned:
Bill Cheall: Episode 3
William Hershel Nelson: Episode 99
Eric Clarke: Episode 42 D-Day 75 - Landing Craft Tank in WWII - Eric Clark D-Day veteran memoir
Brian Moss: Episodes 2, 3 and 13
Through German Eyes in the Second World War: Episodes 46/47All D-Day/Normandy episodes:
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Fighting Through from Dunkirk to Hamburg – Bill Cheall:
https://amzn.to/3KpppQqThe Trials and Tribulations of a D-Day landing on Omaha Beach – BBC People’s War –
Published Memoir: The Untold Story by William Hershel Nelson:
https://amzn.eu/d/364xd3GBrian Moss in Mines, Bombs, Bullets and Bridges: A Sapper's Second World War Diary – by Mike Moss:
https://amzn.to/4ehXIquFull show notes, photos and transcript at:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/99-Omaha-Heroes-and-their-WW2-stories
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More Omaha WWII history action with family stories and a memoir feature you do not want to miss. And if you want to end with a smile do not miss the PS!
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Episode Artwork:
Sergant Giovanni Pezzella - See the PS for his story.
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Eyewitness D-Day by Jon E Lewis
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Memoir: The Untold Story by William Hershel Nelson
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Another great line-up of WW2 sniper stories featuring female snipers, British veteran Harry Furness, the psychology of sniping and stories from Crete and Sicily along with one or two more surprises. And the usual PS's!
Great Unpublished History!
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Gary Yee's book: World War II Snipers (1939-45) The Men, Their Guns, Their Story
Here's a link to Amazon in the US:https://www.amazon.com/World-War-II-Snipers-Illustrated/dp/1636240984
Google extracts from Gary Yee’s book
https://www.google.com/books/edition/World_War_II_Snipers/MtBkEAAAQBAJ?q=el+alamein+sniping+spots&gbpv=0#f=falseThe High Road Sniper Story forum:
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/a-collection-of-bedtime-stories-or-sharpshooter-sniper-tales.36853/page-19Military History Company
https://www.worldwarsupply.com/The Secret Drop - James Papalia's new book, covered in the Christmas episode.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSWGJRTT?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_GZHD1DWSD9AFSJ9M3YW3&language=en-US&fbclid=IwAR1E2IBqfEsTX0_On3vxT6twWN9SLID7fVRpbeZ2_2ftR6r0Lr2dxMc-svU_aem_AXaujzVFtVPlekILmZr_1-21D6F34E2-lSslmNoaYr5-V0lDjwetkGK2z7GFVNzoFacReddit war stories forum
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Another tranche of Sniper stories based around the book, World War II Snipers - The Men, Their Guns, Their Story, by Gary Yee. Features selection of personnel, training, tactics and the weapons themselves. Lots of WW2 stories and eye witness accounts from around the world.
Great Unpublished History!
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Gary’s book: World War II Snipers (1939-45) The Men, Their Guns, Their Story
Here's a link to Amazon in the US:https://www.amazon.com/World-War-II-Snipers-Illustrated/dp/1636240984
Google extracts from Gary Yee’s book
https://www.google.com/books/edition/World_War_II_Snipers/MtBkEAAAQBAJ?q=el+alamein+sniping+spots&gbpv=0#f=false
The High Road Sniper Story forum:
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/a-collection-of-bedtime-stories-or-sharpshooter-sniper-tales.36853/page-19Military History Company
https://www.worldwarsupply.com/The Secret Drop - James new book, covered in the Christmas episode.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSWGJRTT?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_GZHD1DWSD9AFSJ9M3YW3&language=en-US&fbclid=IwAR1E2IBqfEsTX0_On3vxT6twWN9SLID7fVRpbeZ2_2ftR6r0Lr2dxMc-svU_aem_AXaujzVFtVPlekILmZr_1-21D6F34E2-lSslmNoaYr5-V0lDjwetkGK2z7GFVNzoFacReddit war stories forum
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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 worldAnd 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 - Christmas!
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Manchester V1 attack WW2 and comments
https://aircrashsites.co.uk/air-raids-bomb-sites/luftwaffe-v1-attack-on-manchester-christmas-eve-1944/
Bomber enemies in WWII became friends
https://nation.time.com/2012/12/20/a-christmas-story-but-not-by-charles-dickens/
Eugene Fluckey’s book Thunder Below about USS Barb submarine.
https://amzn.to/4a9dS3kSounds
Lancaster crashing - Plane Crash.flac Copyright 2013 Iwan Gabovitch, CC-BY3 license.http://freesound.org/people/Snipperbes/sounds/145365/
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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.
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Thomas W Gray story - The Eighth Air Force Historical Society (official) Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/8THAFHS/permalink/6392716644111145/
WW2 Stories of Chaos and Courage Robert Gough
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1401905480216353/?mibextid=zDhOQcSpitfire downed on Dunkirk beach
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1298240560582846/?mibextid=zDhOQcRamsgate life-boat - The France and Flanders Campaign 1940 Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/861551180637519/posts/pfbid0MUyULj43uQvZ7CJjWhUJRUEd6P4xmbBKapXfv1d2hTvUzmcEAQYV1ZCeEa4Q7Xvql/Thomas W Gray - The Eighth Air Force Historical Society (official) Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/8THAFHS/permalink/6392716644111145/WW2 Stories of Chaos and Courage Robert Gough
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1401905480216353/?mibextid=zDhOQcRecollections of Lieutenant JWR Cocke - Wilbur
https://www.facebook.com/861551180637519/posts/pfbid023vpZUKbAJvcmkh2Y4HXQh25buYPeT4doKhBSzfnPus328rVKso3GuuQJvxuqZSpol/More Dunkirk stories:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/search/?q=dunkirkSeth Vader's grandfather's memoir:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ww2/s/5OHnpaX7S9John Moran of Scottish parentage but a Canadian wrote a book under the name Ian Moran called the Lone Piper.
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Featuring No time for dreams: a soldier’s six-year journey through World War II.
By Robert W. Metcalfe, 4th Green HowardsBob 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 stories!
More great unpublished history of world war two!
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France and Flanders – The Scotsmen story
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0rqsd4pF1fs37YC76TPuVgh4tpudaa3Lu7nHhMMX71WGSMQo2rnJ7Vu8eJ6hADWuFl&id=100072081056641D-Day Operation Overlord facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1528243384106448/permalink/3551589835105116/Assn of Dunkirk ships
https://www.facebook.com/DunkirkShips/
https://www.adls.org.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/culturevannin/photos/a.421476987984802/2655215381277607/?type=3Isle of Man Culture Vannin Facebook page
for the Manx Heritage foundation: taking Manx culture forwardhttps://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/videos/world-war-two--the-isle-of-man-411483/?fbclid=IwAR1DGg6OnFOGCNd1evVKIBIUuliCuwI7vT-v5xDUcN44-bE5hSJ-kG1myjI
Reddit Stories about WW2 heroes. Sgt Carbonero:
https://reddit.com/r/ww2/s/7zhCVvj7srFriends of Normanby Village Facebook page – 4th Green Howard story. Albert Edward Mead.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/614763812894288/posts/1047674802936518/?comment_id=1047749999595665&reply_comment_id=1047877976249534¬if_id=1699710094723212¬if_t=group_comment_mention -
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!
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The Secret Beach - Great WW2 history for kids! Buy here on Amazon:
https://a.co/d/6klDSebGreen Howards
https://greenhowards.org.uk/
Online Sicily Exhibition
See: https://greenhowards.org.uk/exhibition/first-foot-on-fortress-europe/Kilroy
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wwiiphotographs/permalink/663597541886219/Edward ‘Teddy’ Sheean VC WW2 STORIES OF CHAOS AND COURAGE
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1365913053815596/Champagne Sylvie. La Vie en France
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkRdwn9Ktd1z79n08YYVwhwFacebook story: WW2 STORIES OF CHAOS AND COURAGE The surly petty officer
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1456548118085422/Battles and Beers. Every soldier has a story, and every story deserves to be told. Nicholas Laidlaw - What War did to us
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1156444198095817/And here is the background to the Italian mission from
http://www.facesbeyondthegraves.com/pagina43.htmlMy mum kept her dads World War I record secret until I found them online.
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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!
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Links for episode 82
ABF The Soldiers’ Charity on their event ‘The Frontline Walk’
Visit www.soldierscharity.org/frontlinewalk for more information.
Normandy specific website: The Frontline Walk: The Normandy Beaches 2023 (soldierscharity.org)
Normandy route
Day 1: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/39060395Day 2: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/39060402
Day 3: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/39060403
Video:
Frontline Walk 2022 - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9wAFB6h7MFoohx7WiH7LTA
Song for the Bad Guys - Nick Feint
Nick’s music is hosted on the bandcamp website and there’s a link to in the shownotes
https://nickfeint.bandcamp.com/track/song-for-the-bad-guyshttps://open.spotify.com/track/0YEOGDmc5v3Foe8IDfujTt?si=vcK-KBDTT4i4UITLbLoOFQ
Nick Feint - Coming Up Roses
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YEOGDmc5v3Foe8IDfujTt?si=vcK-KBDTT4i4UITLbLoOFQ505 Parachute Infantry Regiment website
http://www.505rct.org/SICILY.aspD-Day and TimeGhost History's 24 hour coverage of D-Day, as it really happened. Clips, playlists, and all the chapters of that day as it unfolded.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9wAFB6h7MFoohx7WiH7LTAGreat British Life online Magazine – link …
https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/22630675.story-behind-luftwaffes-attack-new-mills/Fred Thomas 504 PIR WW2
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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:
www.kissesonapostcard.comReviews on main website:
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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:
https://amzn.to/3I8cFxdFull show notes, photos and transcript at:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/90-Alfred-Blackburn-War-Memoirs-Part-2Rennie Shaw
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56500895/rennie-shaw/flowerAugie Herchenratter
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/war-hero-augie-herchenratter-hoped-to-make-it-to-the-nhl/article37536495/Men of Worth project
https://www.menofworth.org.uk/Reviews on main website:
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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:
https://amzn.to/3I8cFxdFull show notes, photos and transcript at:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/89-Alf-Blackburns-war-memoirs-WW2-British-InfantryRennie Shaw
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56500895/rennie-shaw/flowerAugie Herchenratter
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/war-hero-augie-herchenratter-hoped-to-make-it-to-the-nhl/article37536495/Men of Worth project
https://www.menofworth.org.uk/Reviews on main website:
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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:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/88-Christmas-at-War-2022-WW2Support Ukraine:
Yorkshire Aid Convoy
www.yorkshireaidconvoy.co.uk.Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal
https://bit.ly/FightingThroughSalvationArmyRed Cross/ Disasters Emergency Committee
https://bit.ly/FightingThroughRedCrossEdinburgh pubs:
https://guildfordarms.com/
https://www.caferoyaledinburgh.com/
In search of the pub at Hogmanay - Facebook - Edinburgh Past and Present
https://www.facebook.com/groups/243031579057598/permalink/6000651499962215/
Anderson shelters
https://andersonshelters.org.uk/design-construction/building/
Spotify playlist – German war songs
https://open.spotify.com/episode/35eUciFLotazYwLQYPohde?si=BuTXcAcpROWUWcMJjVOmuw
POW letters home
https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Christmas%20letters%20transcribed.pdf
Douglas Bader report
https://www.facebook.com/861551180637519/posts/pfbid02Dh4zf6aHzVYkV4HxgymXPGTRqGLcJMPXobxzrfS1yPCmiYbFXTx7NoUBfvA3D7Ltl/?d=n
A Short History Of The Aden Emergency
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/a-short-history-of-the-aden-emergency
Sound Effects from Pixabay
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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 - https://www.britishnormandymemorial.org/shop/ Story of my visit Episode 45 Bill Vickers Episode 25 Episode 78 Buy the Book, Save the Last Bullet: Pen and Sword direct Amazon UK Amazon USA More Willi Langbein episodes: Save the Last Bullet intro - Episode 69 Christmas 2021 Episode 76 Coming soon: Christmas 2022 Episode 87 Heidi Langbein web site: https://www.heidilangbeinauthor.com/ Heidi Langbein Facebook:
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A preview of a brand new podcast all about the United States Air Force in the guise of the Mighty Eighth - and their role in Britain during the war. And as a prelude I’m going to chat with Johann, one of the hosts.
More great unpublished history!
Mighty Eighth website
https://mighty8thpodcast.com/Book mention in the show:
Bomb Group: The Eighth Air Force's 381st and the Allied Air Offensive over Europe
Paul Bingley and Mike PetersSupport:
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How the Cockleshell Heroes upset Nazi supply lines with canoes!
The Cockleshell Heroes, Operation Frankton, was a commando raid on ships in the German occupied French port of Bordeaux in southwest France
PLUS: How British Royal Fusilier, Bill Turner, survived for 3 years as a German POW. Featured in Episode artwork.
More great unpublished history!
Support the Cockleshell 2022 team for December 22 and donate to the Royal British Legion:
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Paul Britton, Senior reporter at Manchester Evening News.
Twitter: @PaulBrittonMEN
Facebook: www.facebook.com/PaulBrittonjournalistCockleshell article in Manchester Evening News:
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/following-in-the-footsteps-of-24453884Cockleshell article BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12914628
On This Day Australian military history - Facebook page:
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A great tale of one man's survival when so many around him lost their lives in Italy and beyond. Features 5th Canadian Division.
Plus a fascinating U-Boat tale about weather station Kurt sneakily set up by the enemy in Newfoundland.
More great unpublished history!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_KurtIf you want your painting done with aplomb, get on the phone and ring Desperate Don!
https://pridepainting.ca/ That’s my plug, not Don’s!I’ve been using her Liz for typing work several years now and that clearly says a lot for the quality of her service.
www.nicholssecretarialservices.co.ukFull show notes, photos and transcript at:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/83-corporal-leslie-cook-and-the-japanese-doll-ww2
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The tale of an Australian soldier who has to bury dead Japanese soldiers - a very distasteful duty but one which years later paid him back in positive ways he could not have imagined at the time.
More great unpublished history!
Donate To Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal
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https://bit.ly/FightingThroughRedCrossLink to Anzac Day parade led by Les Cook
https://youtu.be/c4sGEiex73IResearch links
www.ww2talk.com
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/p/research/Pwll Du Bay in Wales.
Where U-Boats sneaked up!
https://www.enjoygower.com/pwll-du-bayRob Edmunds historical writer
https://twitter.com/RobEdmunds11Goliath mini tank
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_tracked_mine?wprov=sfti1Island Destiny, stories from a German medic on Guernsey
https://guernseypress.com/news/2008/05/20/love-across-war-lines/
Island Destiny: A True Story of Love and War in the Channel Island of Sark https://www.amazon.com/dp/1903341361/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_YQC974WAG5S89E17478YFull show notes, photos and transcript at:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/83-corporal-leslie-cook-and-the-japanese-doll-ww2
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Second part of a long chat with Australian veteran Leslie Cook, his views on the Pacific war and more tales of his WW2 adventures.
Play link re the mobile tank mine – the Goliath
https://overcast.fm/+lXX7AU7I/1:17:22
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