Green Howards Episodes

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...

Plus: Green Howards in Sicily plus interview with veteran Ken Cooke

Sicily and D-Day with Green Howards and Durham Light Infantry

Part 1 of 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.

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

PART TWO. Green Howards, Belgium, Germany - WWII

Green Howards, D-Day, Belgium, Germany - WWII

5th Green Howards POW story, Poland

The remarkable discovery of one man's long lost story.

WW2 Sniper stories at their best

Stories behind the sights at Gold beach & Omaha, WWII

My final chat with WWII veteran the late Wilf Shaw

Great revelations about Dunkirk war heroes. How one man's sacrifice saved the lives of possibly thousands of others.

Two WW2 servicemen. Two accounts of the same very special voyage in 1943

A celebratory farewell to a WW2 hero

Two veterans remember two beaches - Juno and Gold WW2

Dramatic WW2 secrets between two veterans

Tragic but poignant tale of five WWII comrades

How the Dunkirk spirit of '40 became the Christmas spirit of ‘45 in WW2

A third coffee with a North Africa, Sicily, and D-Day veteran, WW2

A second coffee with a North Africa, Sicily, and D-Day veteran, WWII

Original war diary discovered by family, WWII

Poems by a D-Day veteran WW2

Part 2 of WW2 memoir

Part 1 of WW2 memoir

N Africa, Sicily, and D-Day. Wilf awarded the WWII French Legion D'Honneur.

Two gripping veteran accounts of the D-Day landings, 1944. WWII.

Second World War Veteran memoirs of the 1943 desert, WWII. Three veterans' accounts of one battle - WADI AKARIT, North Africa WW2.

One man's nail-biting bid to escape from France in 1940. Learn how Bill Cheall and his comrades of the 6 Green Howards survive the stukas to board a ship to get back to England. "We could see ships out at sea making their way from Dunkirk to England and could also see the dive-bombers after the ships. To our horror, many other ships had been sunk, their funnels and superstructures sticking out of the water - it was a ships' graveyard and it looked dreadful." Great unpublished second world war history!