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Green Howards Episodes

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 …

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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, …

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Aug. 7, 2023

93 The 82nd airborne Part 2 letters from Sicily and Italy WW2

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

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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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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. 11, 2022

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.

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Nov. 17, 2021

75 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 2

PART TWO. Green Howards, Belgium, Germany - WWII

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Nov. 16, 2021

74 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 1

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

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Oct. 25, 2021

73 Jack Stansfield POW in WW2

5th Green Howards POW story, Poland

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Sept. 2, 2021

70 LCpl Jack Betley WWII comrade

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

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March 18, 2020

53 Sniper Anthology, Second World War

WW2 Sniper stories at their best

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Aug. 30, 2019

45 Gold Beach Normandy trip WW2

Stories behind the sights at Gold beach & Omaha, WWII

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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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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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June 4, 2018

30 Queen Mary in WW2

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

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