Full Memoir Episodes

May 16, 2013

3 D-Day - Sgt Brian Moss Royal Engineers WW2

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

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March 3, 2017

11 Dunkirk little ship, The Bee memoir WW2 by Fred Reynard

Original WWII memoir from Engineer of The Bee, Dunkirk little ship. Mesmerising!

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Aug. 15, 2017

16 Gallipoli Part 1. WW1 Memoirs of Sgt Fred Reynard

First hand account of the brutal fighting at Suvla Bay, Aug 15, WWI

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Sept. 16, 2017

17 Gallipoli Part 2. WW1 Memoirs of Sgt Fred Reynard

First hand account of the brutal fighting at Suvla Bay, Aug 15, WW1

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Oct. 26, 2017

20 Dunkirk Little Ship Bee - UNABRIDGED EDITION WWII - Fred Reynard

COMPLETE and Original WWII memoir from Engineer of The Bee small ship

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March 1, 2018

27 D-Day Veterans remember - Bennett and Cheall, WWII

Two veterans remember two beaches - Juno and Gold WW2

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May 8, 2018

29 Prisoner of War in WWII - Memoir by Brian Asquith

Memoirs of a British POW in WWII Poland, "Long Time, no WC"

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Aug. 29, 2018

33 Women at War 2 - Wartime Recipes and WRENS

Culinary survival skills and a Women's Royal Naval Service morse coding memoir

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Dec. 15, 2018

38 Sergeant Eion McEwan -5th Scottish Para WWII memoir

Dramatic Diary from WW2 France, Italy, Greece, Singapore and Indonesia

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Feb. 28, 2019

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.

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April 19, 2019

41 Wilf Shaw 4 - A last coffee - WW2 history - Interview

My final chat with WWII veteran the late Wilf Shaw

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May 6, 2019

42 D-Day 75 - Landing Craft Tank in WWII - Eric Clark D-Day veteran m…

Commemorative episode for 75th anniversary of D-Day landings June 1944

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Nov. 10, 2019

48 Captain H E Hovell - First World War

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

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June 6, 2020

56 Omaha PART 1 - D-Day Complete memoir. Private First Class Prince.

A US 2nd Rangers' memoir of D-Day, Normandy and beyond. Featuring Able Company. Overseas and Then Over the Top.

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June 10, 2020

57 Omaha PART 2 - D-Day

A US 2nd Rangers' memoir of D-Day, Normandy and beyond. Featuring Able Company.

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June 17, 2020

58 Omaha PART 3 - D-Day

A US 2nd Rangers' memoir of D-Day, Normandy and beyond

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July 15, 2020

59 Omaha PART 4 - D-Day

A US 2nd Rangers' memoir of D-Day, Normandy and beyond

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July 19, 2020

60 Omaha PART 5 - D-Day

Siegfried line, Battle of Bulge, Hill 400

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Nov. 13, 2020

64 Leslie Cook Part 1 - Australian - Burma Memoirs and more

Six full years of an Australian soldier’s war, with all its ups and downs.

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March 27, 2021

65 Leslie Cook Part 2 - Greece WW2

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

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April 11, 2021

66 Leslie Cook 3 New Guinea WW2

More Australian second world war adventures

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April 23, 2021

68 Leslie Cook 5 - Burma WWII

Pic above: Henry Topf

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May 26, 2021

69 German Boy Soldier Willi Langbein WW2

Save the Last Bullet by Heidi Langbein-Allen. The biography of a 13 year old who had his youth cruelly stolen by the Nazis during six years of WW2, from witnessing Jewish persecution to hand-to-hand fighting on the front line.

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May 13, 2022

83 Australian Cpl Leslie Cook and the Japanese Doll

A poignant reminder for us to be at peace with each other

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Feb. 6, 2023

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.

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Feb. 10, 2023

90 Alf Blackburn’s war memoirs Part 2, WW2

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

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Nov. 18, 2023

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...

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Nov. 26, 2023

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...

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