Canadian Episodes

Tragic tale of an RAF crew & their beloved plane, WWII

POW in Japan, WWII

Stories behind the sights at Gold beach & Omaha, WWII

Memoir from a Norfolk, UK, man who fought in both World Wars

Stop Press: Great Escape family tale by Canadian Alfred B Thompson, see pic above.

German submarine U-111’s tour of the North Atlantic during the second world war. By Kurt Schoenthier. Sinkings, survivals and POW's.

Kurt Schoenthier, U-Boat U-111

Memoir from Provost Corps, Plus a U-Boat tale.

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, where...

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 Metcalfe upon publication of...

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.

A family memoir from listener Paul Gill from USA whose father sailed in the Arctic convoys during the Second World War.  "The enemy planes were flying just a few feet over the surface of the water on our starboard bow, towards the head of...