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Publisher |: Paul Cheall WWII

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: History,; Military,; Society & Culture,; Warfare,; World War II

Categories Via RSS |: History

WWII memoirs & interviews. Dunkirk, D-Day, London Blitz, North Africa, Women at War, Lancasters, POW stories ... Over 150 5-star ratings. "Thank you for what you are doing. It's incredible and I'm absolutely hooked" AB

People |: Paul Cheall (@paulcheall)
Country Of Origin |: United Kingdom
Produced In |: Norwich, England
Premiere Date |: 2013-04-11
Related Hashtags |: #DDay75,; #Dunkirk,; #WW2,; #WWII
Frequency |: Periodic
Explicit |: No

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92 Available Episodes (92 Total) / Average duration: 01:15:47

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92 Available Episodes (92 Total)Average duration: 01:15:47

Mar 12, 2023

01:44:16

An interview with Dominic Frisby. The Kisses on a Postcard musical charts the true story of two young British evacuees during WW2. Features mystery postcard messages, the bombing of Plymouth, American GI's and crashing German bombers. Dominic’s work is full to bursting with Dunkirk spirit, steam trains and all the best of WW2 Britishness.

And never ever was an episode better timed to coincide with world events.

Buy the book, the CD's, hear the musical as a podcast. All links and pod players at: www.kissesonapostcard.com

Reviews on main website:https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/reviews/new/

Apple reviews: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ww2-fighting-through-from-dunkirk-to-hamburg-war-diary/id624581457?mt=2

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YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnlqRO9MdFBUrKM6ExEOzVQ?view_as=subscriber

Feb 10, 2023

01:02:59

Part 2

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. Durham Light Infantry DLI and Green Howards feature.

More great unpublished history!

Buy Alf Blackburn's War Memoirs at: https://amzn.to/3I8cFxd

Full show notes, photos and transcript at:https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/90-Alfred-Blackburn-War-Memoirs-Part-2

Rennie Shaw https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56500895/rennie-shaw/flower

Augie Herchenratter https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/war-hero-augie-herchenratter-hoped-to-make-it-to-the-nhl/article37536495/

Men of Worth project https://www.menofworth.org.uk/

Reviews on main website:https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/reviews/new/

Apple reviews: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ww2-fighting-through-from-dunkirk-to-hamburg-war-diary/id624581457?mt=2

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Feb 06, 2023

01:06:39

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.

More great unpublished history!

Buy Alf Blackburn's War Memoirs at: https://amzn.to/3I8cFxd

Full show notes, photos and transcript at:https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/89-Alf-Blackburns-war-memoirs-WW2-British-Infantry

Rennie Shaw https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56500895/rennie-shaw/flower

Augie Herchenratter https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/war-hero-augie-herchenratter-hoped-to-make-it-to-the-nhl/article37536495/

Men of Worth project https://www.menofworth.org.uk/

Reviews on main website:https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/reviews/new/

Apple reviews: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ww2-fighting-through-from-dunkirk-to-hamburg-war-diary/id624581457?mt=2

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulCheall

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YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnlqRO9MdFBUrKM6ExEOzVQ?view_as=subscriber

Dec 05, 2022

01:41:48

Celebrating another Christmas at war and indeed Hogmanay, with a Christmas stocking absolutely heaving with seasonal tales of goodwill.

More great unpublished Christmassy!

Full show notes, photos and transcript at: https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/88-Christmas-at-War-2022-WW2

Support Ukraine:

Yorkshire Aid Convoywww.yorkshireaidconvoy.co.uk.

Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal https://bit.ly/FightingThroughSalvationArmy

Red Cross/ Disasters Emergency Committee https://bit.ly/FightingThroughRedCross

Edinburgh pubs:

https://guildfordarms.com/

https://www.caferoyaledinburgh.com/

In search of the pub at Hogmanay - Facebook - Edinburgh Past and Present

https://www.facebook.com/groups/243031579057598/permalink/6000651499962215/

Anderson shelters

https://andersonshelters.org.uk/design-construction/building/

Spotify playlist – German war songs

https://open.spotify.com/episode/35eUciFLotazYwLQYPohde?si=BuTXcAcpROWUWcMJjVOmuw

POW letters home

https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Christmas%20letters%20transcribed.pdf

Douglas Bader report

https://www.facebook.com/861551180637519/posts/pfbid02Dh4zf6aHzVYkV4HxgymXPGTRqGLcJMPXobxzrfS1yPCmiYbFXTx7NoUBfvA3D7Ltl/?d=n

A Short History Of The Aden Emergency

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/a-short-history-of-the-aden-emergency

Sound Effects from Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects

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Nov 08, 2022

01:03:38

Previewing the newly published book and surely a best seller, Save the Last Bullet, about a German boy soldier in the Nazi army.

"This is the story of my father's traumatic ordeal as a boy soldier in Hitler's Army. It is an account in his own words of the horrors of the Third Reich, witnessed and experienced from his perspective as a child." Heidi Langbein.

Hear the chapter on Military Training.

Plus more family stories and WW2 ghost story from James Papalia, aged 7!

More great unpublished history!

British Normandy Memorial

Shop - https://www.britishnormandymemorial.org/shop/

Story of my visit Episode 45

Bill Vickers

Episode 25

Episode 78

Buy the Book, Save the Last Bullet:

and-sword.co.uk/Heidi-Langbein-Allen/a/4586">Pen and Sword direct

Amazon UK

Amazon USA

More Willi Langbein episodes:

Save the Last Bullet intro - Episode 69

Christmas 2021 Episode 76

Coming soon: Christmas 2022 Episode 87

Heidi Langbein web site:

https://www.heidilangbeinauthor.com/

Heidi Langbein Facebook:

Support Ukraine:

Yorkshire Aid Convoywww.yorkshireaidconvoy.co.uk.

Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal https://bit.ly/FightingThroughSalvationArmy

Red Cross/ Disasters Emergency Committee https://bit.ly/FightingThroughRedCross

Full show notes, photos and transcript at: https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/88-Christmas-at-War-2022-WW2

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Nov 05, 2022

00:59:26

A preview of a brand new podcast all about the United States Air Force in the guise of the Mighty Eighth - and their role in Britain during the war. And as a prelude I’m going to chat with Johann, one of the hosts.

More great unpublished history!

Mighty Eighth websitehttps://mighty8thpodcast.com/

Book mention in the show:Bomb Group: The Eighth Air Force's 381st and the Allied Air Offensive over Europe Paul Bingley and Mike Peters

Support:Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal https://bit.ly/FightingThroughSalvationArmy

Red Cross/ Disasters Emergency Committee https://bit.ly/FightingThroughRedCross

Full show notes, photos and transcript at:https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/86-mighty-eighth-podcast-USAF-WW2

Reviews on main website:https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/reviews/new/

Apple reviews: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ww2-fighting-through-from-dunkirk-to-hamburg-war-diary/id624581457?mt=2

Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulCheall

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YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnlqRO9MdFBUrKM6ExEOzVQ?view_as=subscriber

Aug 01, 2022

01:43:35

How the Cockleshell Heroes upset Nazi supply lines with canoes!

How a British Royal Fusilier survived for 3 years as a German POW.

More great unpublished history!

Support the Cockleshell 2022 team for December 22 and donate to the Royal British Legion: https://bit.ly/CockleshellFightingThrough Paul Britton, Senior reporter at Manchester Evening News. Twitter: @PaulBrittonMEN Facebook: www.facebook.com/PaulBrittonjournalist

Cockleshell article in Manchester Evening News:https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/following-in-the-footsteps-of-24453884

Cockleshell article BBC:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12914628

On This Day Australian military history - Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OTDAustralianMilitaryHistory/

Donate To Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal https://bit.ly/FightingThroughSalvationArmy

Red Cross/ Disasters Emergency Committee https://bit.ly/FightingThroughRedCross

Full show notes, photos and transcript at:

www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/85-Bill-Turner-POW-and-Cockleshell-Heroes-WW2

Reviews on main website:https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/reviews/new/

Apple reviews: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ww2-fighting-through-from-dunkirk-to-hamburg-war-diary/id624581457?mt=2

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YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnlqRO9MdFBUrKM6ExEOzVQ?view_as=subscriber

May 18, 2022

00:56:31

A great tale of one man's survival when so many around him lost their lives in Italy and beyond. Features 5th Canadian Division.

Plus a fascinating U-Boat tale about weather station Kurt sneakily set up by the enemy in Newfoundland.

More great unpublished history!

Donate To Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal https://bit.ly/FightingThroughSalvationArmy

Red Cross/ Disasters Emergency Committee https://bit.ly/FightingThroughRedCross

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Station_Kurt

If you want your painting done with aplomb, get on the phone and ring Desperate Don! https://pridepainting.ca/ That’s my plug, not Don’s!

I’ve been using her Liz for typing work several years now and that clearly says a lot for the quality of her service. www.nicholssecretarialservices.co.uk

Full show notes, photos and transcript at:

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/83-corporal-leslie-cook-and-the-japanese-doll-ww2

Reviews on main website

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/reviews/new/

Apple reviews - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ww2-fighting-through-from-dunkirk-to-hamburg-war-diary/id624581457?mt=2

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May 13, 2022

01:06:45

The tale of an Australian soldier who has to bury dead Japanese soldiers - a very distasteful duty but one which years later paid him back in positive ways he could not have imagined at the time.

More great unpublished history!

Donate To Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal https://bit.ly/FightingThroughSalvationArmy

Red Cross/ Disasters Emergency Committee https://bit.ly/FightingThroughRedCross

Link to Anzac Day parade led by Les Cook https://youtu.be/c4sGEiex73I

Research links www.ww2talk.com https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/p/research/

Pwll Du Bay in Wales. Where U-Boats sneaked up! https://www.enjoygower.com/pwll-du-bay

Rob Edmunds historical writer https://twitter.com/RobEdmunds11

Goliath mini tank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_tracked_mine?wprov=sfti1

Island Destiny, stories from a German medic on Guernsey https://guernseypress.com/news/2008/05/20/love-across-war-lines/ Island Destiny: A True Story of Love and War in the Channel Island of Sark https://www.amazon.com/dp/1903341361/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_YQC974WAG5S89E17478Y

Full show notes, photos and transcript at:

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/83-corporal-leslie-cook-and-the-japanese-doll-ww2

Reviews on main website