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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 …

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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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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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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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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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April 23, 2021

68 Leslie Cook 5 - Burma WWII

Pic above: Henry Topf

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April 11, 2021

66 Leslie Cook 3 New Guinea WW2

More Australian second world war adventures

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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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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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July 19, 2020

60 Omaha PART 5 - D-Day

Siegfried line, Battle of Bulge, Hill 400

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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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June 17, 2020

58 Omaha PART 3 - D-Day

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

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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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