Christmas at war, with more seasonal tales, including a special feature on Christmas around the globe during WW2. Specials in this episode :German Boy Soldier's Christmas Shoes V1 Doodlebug bombs over Manchester.
PART TWO Featuring No time for dreams: a soldier’s six-year second world war 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 …
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, …
Memoir from Provost Corps, Plus a U-Boat tale.
Kurt Schoenthier, U-Boat U-111
German submarine U-111’s tour of the North Atlantic during the second world war. By Kurt Schoenthier. Sinkings, survivals and POW's.
Stop Press: Great Escape family tale by Canadian Alfred B Thompson, see pic above.
Memoir from a Norfolk, UK, man who fought in both World Wars
Stories behind the sights at Gold beach & Omaha, WWII
POW in Japan, WWII
Tragic tale of an RAF crew & their beloved plane, WWII