Canadian Episodes

Heartwarming festive tales of WWII. Cry. Laugh. Learn. German POW story, "Last Flight" Lancaster tale, Wilf Shaw goes to church, Stop Press headlines, much more. Your free christmas gift: The Fighting Through digital jigsaw: Here's something to entertain pending the next episode, a Fighting Through puzzle, courtesy of Lisa Loftis! #puzzle #ww2 Play at https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=1d5d66386b74 James Papalia's book - The Secret Portal - scroll down for pic https://amzn.to/3KGPAG...

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...

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 Metcalfe upon publication of...

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...

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