Canadian Episodes
96 Christmas at War Around The World with the V1 - 2023
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.
95 Dunkirk Special PART TWO Bob Metcalfe WW2 memoirs
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 …
94 Dunkirk Special PART ONE - Bob Metcalfe British Canadian, Green Ho…
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, …
84 Canadian Lance Corporal David Johnson, Italy WW2
Memoir from Provost Corps, Plus a U-Boat tale.
79 German Submariner Part 2: Atlantic, POW in Canada.
Kurt Schoenthier, U-Boat U-111
78 German Submariner Part 1: Atlantic, POW in Canada.
German submarine U-111’s tour of the North Atlantic during the second world war. By Kurt Schoenthier. Sinkings, survivals and POW's.
65 Leslie Cook Part 2 - Greece WW2
Stop Press: Great Escape family tale by Canadian Alfred B Thompson, see pic above.
48 Captain H E Hovell - First World War
Memoir from a Norfolk, UK, man who fought in both World Wars
45 Gold Beach Normandy trip WW2
Stories behind the sights at Gold beach & Omaha, WWII
43 Canadian Seaman Ray Fitchett POW and HMS Exeter - spoken memoir
POW in Japan, WWII
14 The Last Flight of Lancaster Lily Mars, WW2
Tragic tale of an RAF crew & their beloved plane, WWII