Fighting Through WWII Stories & History
By Paul Cheall WW2
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Subscribers: 239
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Episodes: 126
Sebastien
Jun 17, 2019
Great podcast, stories from direct witnesses with plenty details, I like it !
Chris
May 15, 2019
excellent first hand accounts from a wide range of predictives
Description
Second World War Stories, WWII Memoirs & interviews. Dunkirk, D-Day, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Omaha, USAF, RAF, POWs, - Britain, USA, Australia, Canada … all the forces … WW2.
... Over 500 5-star ratings. "Thank you for what you are doing. It's incredible and I'm absolutely hooked" AB
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126 Christmas at War 2025 WW2
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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125 (Pt 2) Britain's Darkest WW2 Newspaper Headlines 1940 PART TWO
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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124 (Pt 1) Britain's Darkest WW2 Newspaper Headlines 1940 PART ONE
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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123 (Pt 3) Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes WW2 BY Jonathan Trigg
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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122 (Pt 2) Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes WWII
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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121 (Pt 1) Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes, Second World War, Jonathan Trigg
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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120 Christmas at War 2024, Chat with Cecili Howard and Ken Cooke
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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119 Ch 24-25: Post-war Germany - Oberhausen, Essen and Duisburg
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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118 Ch 22-23: Germany, Hamburg, Devastation at the end of WWII
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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117 Ch 20-21: D-Day plus 1 to D plus 30 - Bill Cheall's WWII memoirs
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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116 Ch 18-19 D-Day - Bill Cheall's WWII memoirs
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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115 Ch 15-17 D-Day Preparation, Bill Cheall's memoirs
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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114 Ch 13-14 Sicily, Bill Cheall's memoirs, WW2 history.
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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113 Ch 10-12: North Africa, Battle of Wadi Akarit,. Bill Cheall's memoirs
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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112 Ch 8-9: Queen Mary voyage to N Africa, Bill Cheall's memoirs. WW2 history.
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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111 Ch 5-7: Dunkirk Aftermath, Bill Cheall's memoirs,WW2
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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110 Ch 4: Dunkirk. Bill Cheall's memoirs, WWII history.
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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109 Chapter 3, British Expeditionary Force, France, 1940. Bill Cheall's memoirs of WW2 history.
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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108 Chapters 1-2, The Beginning. Bill Cheall's WW2 memoirs
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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107 Bill Cheall's complete war memoirs - Dunkirk intro & Prologue. The Book, Fighting Through From Dunkirk to Hamburg - by Bill Cheall
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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106 Blitz, Tanks, D-day and Sappers - Tenth Anniversary PART THREE
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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105 Sniper, POW, Blitz, more WW2 stories - Tenth Anniversary PART TWO
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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104 Germany stories and Bismarck - Tenth Anniversary PART ONE
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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103 Matt Cain interview on Lady of Mann, Dunkirk Little Ship, Manxmen in WW2
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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102 Arctic Convoy with WW2 memoir Armageddon in the Arctic Ocean, by Paul Gill
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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101 Legacy of D-Day WWII, AKA Get off the beach, lads! AKA New Tank Tracks, Coffee and Donuts!
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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100 D-Day 80th anniversary special – Gold, Omaha and more
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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99 Omaha Heroes and their WW2 stories
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May 29, 2024 |
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98 World War II Snipers Part TWO - The Men, Their Guns, Their Story
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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97 World War II Snipers Part ONE - The Men, Their Guns, Their Story
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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96 Christmas at War with the V1 missiles - 2023
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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95 Bob Metcalfe memoirs PART TWO Dunkirk/N Africa/Sicily/Italy WW2
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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94 Bob Metcalfe memoirs PART ONE Dunkirk/N Africa/Sicily/Italy
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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93 The 82nd airborne Part 2, letters from Sicily and Italy WW2
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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92 The 82nd airborne Part 1, letters from Sicily/Italy
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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91 Kisses on a Postcard - Blitz evacuees of WW2 - Interview with Dominic Frisby
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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90 Alf Blackburn Part 2, British Infantry War Memoirs, WWII
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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89 Alf Blackburn Part 1, British Infantry War Memoirs, WWII
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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88 Christmas/Hogmanay at War 2022 WWII
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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87 German Boy Soldier 2 - Save the Last Bullet
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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86 Mighty Eighth podcast preview USAAF WW2 V2
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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85 Bill Turner, POW, and the Cockleshell Heroes, WW2 Commandos
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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84 Canadian Lance Corporal David Johnson, Italy WW2
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May 18, 2022 |
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83 Australian Corporal Leslie Cook and the Japanese Doll
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May 13, 2022 |
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82 Coffee with Cpl Leslie Cook Part 2, Australian
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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81 Coffee with Cpl Leslie Cook Part 1, Australian
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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80 Ukraine 2022 Appeal, & Dutch Hunger Winter
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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79 German Submariner Part 2: Atlantic U Boat!
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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78 German Submariner Part 1: Atlantic U-Boat, POW in Canada.
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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77 CBI Hump Pilot lost in China - The Seabees
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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76 Christmas at War 2021 WW2 History
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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75 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 2
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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74 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 1
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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73 Jack Stansfield British POW in WW2
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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72 More Seabees and family stories WWII
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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71 The Battalion Artist, US Seabees in the Pacific War
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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70 LCpl Jack Betley WWII comrade
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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69 German Boy Soldier Willi Langbein WW2
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May 26, 2021 |
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68 Leslie Cook 5 - Australian in Burma WWII
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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67 Leslie Cook 4 - Sand, Sangers and Home Sweet Home WW2
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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66 Leslie Cook 3 Aussie in New Guinea WW2
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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65 Leslie Cook Part 2 Greece PLUS The Great Escape!
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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64 Cpl Leslie Cook Part 1, Australian in Burma & New Guinea WW2
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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63 Jean Lindsay, Child of the Second World War
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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62 Churchill's Hellraisers by Damien Lewis PART 2 WW2 history
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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61 Churchill's Hellraisers preview - Damien Lewis, WWII History
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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60 Omaha PART 5 - D-Day WW2
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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59 Omaha PART 4 - D-Day WW2
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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58 Omaha PART 3 - D-Day WW2
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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57 Omaha PART 2 - D-Day
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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56 Omaha PART 1 - D-Day WW2. Overseas and Then Over the Top
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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55 Les Rutherford interview - Lancaster bomb aimer, WW2 history
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May 12, 2020 |
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54 Okinawa - Saul David - Crucible of Hell WW2
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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53 Sniper Harry Furness, Second World War
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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52 For You the War is Over - POW podcast preview
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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51 Episode Fifty Special! Pt Two - Dunkirk 80 & more
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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50 Episode Fifty Special! Pt One - Dunkirk 80 & more
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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49 Christmas at War 2019, Second World War History and Poetry
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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48 Captain H E Hovell - First World War History
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Nov 10, 2019 |
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47 D-Day Through German Eyes Part Two - Jonathan Trigg Preview
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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46 D-Day Through German Eyes Part ONE in the Second World War
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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45 Gold Beach Normandy trip WW2
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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44 Sidney Stevens Lancaster Pilot WW2 history
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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43 Canadian Seaman Ray Fitchett POW and HMS Exeter,
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May 31, 2019 |
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42 D-Day 75 - Landing Craft Tank in WWII - Eric Clarke
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May 06, 2019 |
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41 A last coffee with Wilf Shaw, WW2 history
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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40 Four Brits & a Frenchman at Dunkirk plus Gallipoli
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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39 Stan Perry Listener Feedback and WW2 Quiz
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Dec 23, 2018 |
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38 Sergeant Eion McEwan - Paras WWII
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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36 WW2 Tank Captain Stanley Perry PART ONE
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Oct 07, 2018 |
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37 WW2 Tank Captain Stanley Perry PART TWO
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Oct 07, 2018 |
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35 Freddie Linacre POW WW2 veteran interview
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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34 Wartime Holidays WW2
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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33 Wartime Recipes and WRENS in WW2
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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32 Women at War, WW2 history
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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31 Child of War - An interview with German Volker Wehrum, WW2
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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30 Queen Mary in WW2
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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29 Prisoner of War, Brian Asquith WWII
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May 08, 2018 |
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28 Wilf Shaw RIP Tribute
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Mar 31, 2018 |
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27 D-Day Veterans remember - Bennett and Cheall, WWII
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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26 The Zilken Letters. A veteran exposes the army's best kept WWII secrets!
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Feb 10, 2018 |
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25 Sgt Rufty Hill meets Winston Churchill in WWII
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Jan 26, 2018 |
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24 Christmas at War Bill Cheall WW2 History
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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23 Wilf Shaw - WWII army veteran interview 3
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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22 Wilf Shaw - WWII army veteran interview 2
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Nov 26, 2017 |
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21 Angus Wallace of the WW2 Podcast interviews Paul Cheall
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Nov 11, 2017 |
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20 Dunkirk Little Ship Bee memoir - UNABRIDGED EDITION WWII
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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18 Best of the First 5 years Part 1
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Sep 29, 2017 |
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19 Best of the First 5 years Part 2
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Sep 29, 2017 |
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17 Gallipoli Part 2. WW1 Memoirs of Sgt Fred Reynard
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Sep 16, 2017 |
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16 Gallipoli Part 1. WW1 Memoirs of Sgt Fred Reynard
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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15 The WWII Poems of Sapper John Frederick Smith 2022
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Jul 24, 2017 |
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14 The Last Flight of Lancaster Lily Mars, WW2
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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13 Blitz bomb disposal memoirs of Sgt Brian Moss, Royal Engineers, WWII
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May 08, 2017 |
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12 Claude Reynolds 2 - WW2 Lancaster veteran interview
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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11 Dunkirk little ship, The Bee memoir WW2
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Mar 03, 2017 |
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10 Dunkirk ship diaries of Capt Tom Woods OBE, WW2
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Jan 20, 2017 |
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9 Dunkirk Diaries of Major Leslie Petch OBE WWII
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Dec 04, 2016 |
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8 D-Day WWII poems of D E Gray
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Oct 15, 2016 |
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7 D-Day Diary of D Gray Part 2
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Oct 09, 2016 |
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6 D-Day Diary of D Gray Part 1 - 7th Green Howards
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Oct 07, 2016 |
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5 Claude Reynolds - WW2 Lancaster veteran interview 1
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Jul 20, 2016 |
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4 Wilf Shaw - Veteran interview 1, Second World War
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Jul 09, 2016 |
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3 D-Day - Sgt Brian Moss Royal Engineers, Second World War
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May 16, 2013 |
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2 North Africa WW2 - Veterans' accounts of Second World War
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Apr 11, 2013 |
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1 Dunkirk WW2 - Veteran Bill Cheall's story of the beaches, Second World War
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Apr 11, 2013 |