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37 WW2 Tank Captain Stanley Perry PART TWO Oct 07, 2018

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PART TWO.

Continuing with Part two of Capt Stanley Perry's WW2 interview. Recommended you listen to Part one, episode 36, first.

Stan was in the British tank regiment the Sherwood Rangers and saw a lot of action in Normandy and Germany. He survived WWII battles, bombs and booby traps to tell of his amazing exploits some 75 years later!

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35 Freddie Linacre POW WW2 veteran interview Sep 21, 2018

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Interview with Freddie Linacre, a British veteran of the North Africa campaign and POW in World War 2.

Soldiers survived or were killed or captured. Learn how one man nearly did all three.

Hear the painful tricks POW's pulled to get out of work duties.

Learn how being a Catholic POW, even in Italy, guaranteed you an even harder existence!

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34 Wartime Holidays WW2 Sep 10, 2018

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Hear the WWII diary Anne Cheall wrote on holiday in Wales in July 1943. A brief sojourn before returning to the bomb making factory.

Paul tries out his foreign language skills.

The secret sayings and proverbs which guided Anne throughout her life.

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33 Wartime Recipes and WRENS in WW2 Aug 29, 2018

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A Wren's Story, by Audrey Johnson - the memoirs of a WREN in a signals team during WW2, based in N Ireland.

How Anne Cheall made the best of limited rations with her wartime recipes.

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32 Women at War, WW2 history Jul 20, 2018

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Anne Cheall describes her life as a civilian in WW2, as a 17 year old. How she staved off the threat of hunger, the dangers of working in a bomb factory, the humour from working for a German boss, and how she stood in as a surrogate agony aunt for one of her friends who thought she was pregnant!

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31 Child of War - An interview with German Volker Wehrum, WW2 Jun 25, 2018

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Volker, born 1944, tells some fascinating tales about the dangers his Dad faced in returning to his home country ahead of the advancing Russians, as WW2 ended. Many family stories include a daring escape from Stalingrad and escape from a train bound for Siberia.

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30 Queen Mary in WW2 Jun 04, 2018

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Two WW2 servicemen. Two accounts of the same very special voyage upon the iconic Queen Mary in 1943, taking allied troops from Scotland to Egypt.

"I relieved Tommy as lookout on the quarter deck, he reported Queen Mary sighted with HMS Curacao in the fare of her. What happened in the next few moments was too quick to be true, unfortunately it was true.
"For three days, I didn't care whether I lived or died; that's how bad it was. I would never forget Christmas 1942
"The escort for the American trip was organised like a relay race, with six destroyers positioned in pairs across the Atlantic.

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29 Prisoner of War, Brian Asquith WWII May 08, 2018

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The cracking story of Brian Asquith, who was a Rifleman in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps and was captured at Dunkirk in 1940, WWII. A dangerous but heart-warming adventure in war-time Poland. Learn how the Polish people and the human race come out on top despite deadly dealings by the Nazis.

"Suddenly through the haze we saw a flight of 20 large planes in arrow formation at about 10,000 feet. As they came nearer we realised they were American Fortresses".

"We found a courtyard with steps leading to a cellar and decided this would be our hiding place, but we'd only been there for about half an hour when we heard footsteps in the yard and heard a loud voice say 'Englander, Aus'."

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Brian Asquith, author of POW memoir Long Time No WC.

This 13 yr old German boy was one of 60 members of the Hitler Youth captured by the 14th Armoured Division, 3rd US Army, in the vicinity of Martinszell-Waltenhofen, Germany on April 29, 1945. The group of youngsters ranged in age from 13-17 yrs old. US Army Signal Corps photo - PFC Joseph W. Lapine Colourised by: Colour by RJM

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28 Wilf Shaw RIP Tribute Mar 31, 2018

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28 Wilf Shaw RIP Tribute

It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of WWII veteran Wilf Shaw in hospital on 21 March 2018. His family advise that he passed away very peacefully in the early hours in hospital. He had enjoyed exceptional health for his age until a few weeks ago, when the breathing difficulties he had had trouble with during the past eighteen months worsened quite dramatically.

Special episode about WW2 veteran Wilf Shaw RIP. Listener tributes plus the best and funniest parts of his interviews. "You were always a rebel Wilf and it was those types of blokes who won this bloody War for us" Fred Zilken.

RIP Private Shaw W, 4753850

Called up on 13 June 1940, 6th Battalion, Green Howards

Born 6 Feb 1920, Died 21 March 2018, Aged 98

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27 D-Day Veterans remember - Bennett and Cheall, WWII Mar 01, 2018

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92 year-old Royal Marine Roy Bennett remembers his WWII Juno beach landing and more: "There was a horrendous noise as we landed, people were dying leaving the landing craft ..."

Bill Cheall re-visits France and Gold beach on the 50th anniversary of D-Day in 1994. "We arrived 50 years later at 12.15 hrs and it was still drizzling with rain, and windy, just like it was on D-Day, WW2".

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Below: WWII 48 Royal Marine Commando Roy Bennett.

Below: WWII veteran Bill Cheall and son at Bayeux at the end of a wonderful holiday

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