Episodes
51 Episode Fifty Special - Pt Two
A celebratory episode with old and new clips
53 Sniper Anthology, Second World War
WW2 Sniper stories at their best
54 Okinawa - The Last Great Battle of the Second World War, book pass…
Saul David's new book, Crucible of Hell.
55 Les Rutherford interview - Lancaster bomb aimer
Dunkirk escapee and Stalag Luft 3 POW
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.
57 Omaha PART 2 - D-Day
A US 2nd Rangers' memoir of D-Day, Normandy and beyond. Featuring Able Company.
58 Omaha PART 3 - D-Day
A US 2nd Rangers' memoir of D-Day, Normandy and beyond
59 Omaha PART 4 - D-Day
A US 2nd Rangers' memoir of D-Day, Normandy and beyond
60 Omaha PART 5 - D-Day
Siegfried line, Battle of Bulge, Hill 400
61 Churchill's Hellraisers preview - Damien Lewis - Part 1
Sneak preview of Damien Lewis's latest blockbuster! A secret mission to storm a forbidden Nazi fortress.in Italy.
62 Churchill's Hellraisers by Damien Lewis PART 2
Sneak preview of Damien Lewis's latest blockbuster, contd.
63 Jean Lindsay, Child of the Second World War
Zeppelins, Doodlebugs and Meeting Americans
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.
65 Leslie Cook Part 2 - Greece WW2
Stop Press: Great Escape family tale by Canadian Alfred B Thompson, see pic above.
66 Leslie Cook 3 New Guinea WW2
More Australian second world war adventures
67 Leslie Cook 4 - Sand, Sangers and Home Sweet Home WW2
1943/44 WWII memoirs
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.
70 LCpl Jack Betley WWII comrade
The remarkable discovery of one man's long lost story.
71 The Battalion Artist, Seabees in the Pacific War
Construction Battalion against Japan WW2
72 More Seabees and family stories WWII
Scary coincidences with Kamikazes!
73 Jack Stansfield POW in WW2
5th Green Howards POW story, Poland
74 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 1
Green Howards, D-Day, Belgium, Germany - WWII
75 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 2
PART TWO. Green Howards, Belgium, Germany - WWII
77 The Able Queen, by Rainy Hovarth
Tales of an Indiana Hump Pilot Lost in the Himalayas - China
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.
79 German Submariner Part 2: Atlantic, POW in Canada.
Kurt Schoenthier, U-Boat U-111
80 Ukraine 2022 Appeal, & Dutch Hunger Winter
Refugee stories from WW2 and the Dutch Hunger Winter
81 Coffee with Cpl Les Cook Part 1
Australian Corporal Les Cook, WW2 Kokoda trail, New Guinea
82 Coffee with Cpl Leslie Cook Part 2
Part 2 of Australian Les Cook, WW2 Kokoda trail, New Guinea
83 Australian Cpl Leslie Cook and the Japanese Doll
A poignant reminder for us to be at peace with each other
84 Canadian Lance Corporal David Johnson, Italy WW2
Memoir from Provost Corps, Plus a U-Boat tale.
85 Bill Turner POW and the Cockleshell Heroes WW2
WW2 POW story plus a daring Royal Marine raid!
86 Mighty Eighth podcast preview USAAF WW2 V2
Interview and preview of new podcast
87 German Boy Soldier 2 - Save the Last Bullet
The Memoir of a Boy Soldier In Hitler's army
88 Christmas/Hogmanay at War 2022 WW2
Heartwarming festive tales of WWII.
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.
90 Alf Blackburn’s war memoirs Part 2, WW2
Sicily and D-Day with Green Howards and Durham Light Infantry
91 Kisses on a Postcard - child evacuees - interview with Dominic Fri…
A glorious musical of British evacuee children meeting US GI's & much more!
92 The 82nd airborne Part 1, letters from Sicily
Plus The Soldiers Charity & more from WW2
93 The 82nd airborne Part 2 letters from Sicily and Italy WW2
Plus: Green Howards in Sicily plus interview with veteran Ken Cooke
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...
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...
96 Christmas at War Around The World with the V1 - 2023
Christmas at war, with more seasonal tales, including a special feature on Christmas around the globe during WW2. Specials in this episode :German Boy Soldier's Christmas Shoes V1 Doodlebug bombs over Manchester.
97 World War II Snipers - The Men, Their Guns, Their Story
Another tranche of Sniper stories based around the book, World War II Snipers - The Men, Their Guns, Their Story, by Gary Yee. Features selection of personnel, training, tactics and the weapons themselves. Lots of WW2 stories and eye witness...
98 World War II Snipers Part TWO - The Men, Their Guns, Their Story
Another great line-up of WW2 sniper stories featuring female snipers, British veteran Harry Furness, the psychology of sniping and stories from Crete and Sicily along with one or two more surprises. And the usual PS's! Great Unpublished History!...
99 Omaha Heroes and their WW2 stories
More Omaha WWII history action with family stories and a memoir feature you do not want to miss. And if you want to end with a smile do not miss the PS!
100 D-Day 80th anniversary special – Gold, Omaha and more
A special episode to commemorate the events of D-Day 6 June 44. The 80th anniversary. Four veteran accounts of the landings. D-Day Episodes mentioned: Bill Cheall: Episode 3 William Hershel Nelson: Episode 99 Eric Clarke: Episode 42 D-Day 75 -...