Green Howards Episodes
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 Metcalfe upon publication of...
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, where...
93 The 82nd airborne Part 2 letters from Sicily and Italy WW2
Plus: Green Howards in Sicily plus interview with veteran Ken Cooke
90 Alf Blackburn’s war memoirs Part 2, WW2
Sicily and D-Day with Green Howards and Durham Light Infantry
89 Alf Blackburn’s war memoirs Part 1, WWII
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.
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.
75 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 2
PART TWO. Green Howards, Belgium, Germany - WWII
74 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 1
Green Howards, D-Day, Belgium, Germany - WWII
70 LCpl Jack Betley WWII comrade
The remarkable discovery of one man's long lost story.
53 Sniper Anthology, Second World War
WW2 Sniper stories at their best
45 Gold Beach Normandy trip WW2
Stories behind the sights at Gold beach & Omaha, WWII
41 Wilf Shaw 4 - A last coffee - WW2 history - Interview
My final chat with WWII veteran the late Wilf Shaw
40 Four Brits & a Frenchman at Dunkirk plus Gallipoli - memoirs
Great revelations about Dunkirk war heroes. How one man's sacrifice saved the lives of possibly thousands of others.
30 Queen Mary in WW2
Two WW2 servicemen. Two accounts of the same very special voyage in 1943
27 D-Day Veterans remember - Bennett and Cheall, WWII
Two veterans remember two beaches - Juno and Gold WW2
26 The Zilken Letters. A veteran exposes the army's best kept WWII se…
Dramatic WW2 secrets between two veterans
25 Sgt Rufty Hill meets Winston Churchill in WWII
Tragic but poignant tale of five WWII comrades
24 Christmas at War Bill Cheall 2020 edition
How the Dunkirk spirit of '40 became the Christmas spirit of ‘45 in WW2
23 Wilf Shaw 3 - WWII army veteran interview
A third coffee with a North Africa, Sicily, and D-Day veteran, WW2
22 Wilf Shaw 2 - WWII army veteran interview
A second coffee with a North Africa, Sicily, and D-Day veteran, WWII
9 Dunkirk Diaries of Major Leslie Petch OBE WWII V.2022
Original war diary discovered by family, WWII
8 D-Day WWII poems of D E Gray V.2022.2
Poems by a D-Day veteran WW2
4 Wilf Shaw 1 - WW2 army veteran interview
N Africa, Sicily, and D-Day. Wilf awarded the WWII French Legion D'Honneur.
3 D-Day - Sgt Brian Moss Royal Engineers WW2
Two gripping veteran accounts of the D-Day landings, 1944. WWII.
2 North Africa WW2 - The Battle of the Wadi Akarit in Tunisia
Second World War Veteran memoirs of the 1943 desert, WWII. Three veterans' accounts of one battle - WADI AKARIT, North Africa WW2.
1 Dunkirk WW2 - Veteran Bill Cheall's story of the beaches, Second W…
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 th…