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6 D-Day Diary of D Gray Part 1 - 7th Green Howards Oct 07, 2016

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Doug Gray was there on D-Day and beyond. He wrote his diary and even wrote a diary entry on the day he won his military medal - before he knew he'd won it!

The diary's been supplied by Doug's family. The entries start just before D-Day and finish several weeks after, so it's quite a rare historical record because soldiers were forbidden to keep diaries in case they got captured. Doug's WWII diary tells a really excellent story with drama, tragedy and humour.

17 June 1944:

"Poor old Topper runs into a Spandau and gets five bullets in him. Marvelous piece of work by an officer getting him out. Doc thinks he might pull through. Hope so, as he's the best Sergeant in the Battalion and hates Jerries more than anyone, on account of him seeing his brother killed next to him at Akarit."

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5 Claude Reynolds - WW2 Lancaster veteran interview 1 Jul 20, 2016

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Lancaster Flight Sergeant Claude Reynolds' WW2 memories.

Claude was rear gunner in a Lancaster during the 2nd world war and flew many sorties all over Europe. He experienced no end of scary moments during his time as a member of 49 Squadron in the much-regaled No 5 Group Bomber Command. So he's got plenty of WWII stories to tell.

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A WWII military history podcast on Claude Reynolds' reminiscences

Recorded 2010 in Norfolk, UK - never before published.

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4 Wilf Shaw - Veteran interview 1, Second World War Jul 09, 2016

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The memories of a Legion D'Honneur veteran

A chat with Wilf Shaw of 6th Battalion the Green Howards, 50th infantry division, in the British Army of WW2.

Wilf fought in many campaigns including fighting for Monty's 8th army in Alamein, Wadi Akarit in Tunisia, Sicily and of course Normandy. He was wounded twice and still returned to battle!

This is the fourth episode in the WWII podcast series Fighting Through from Dunkirk to Hamburg, based around the book of the same name which features Bill Cheall's World War 2 memoirs.

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A WWII military history podcast on Wilf Shaw's diary and memoirs.

Recorded April 2016 in Manchester, UK

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3 D-Day - Sgt Brian Moss Royal Engineers, Second World War May 16, 2013

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Graphic accounts of the D-Day landings taken from two veteran memoirs.

Startling accounts from two different perspectives - one from an infantryman, the other from a Royal Engineer, both landing on Gold Beach under heavy fire.

Graphic accounts of the D-Day landings taken from two veteran memoirs.

Startling accounts from two different perspectives - one from an infantryman, the other from a Royal Engineer, both landing on Gold Beach under heavy fire.

"Every second was vital; let's get out of this coffin! Our landing craft was getting so near now and we felt so helpless, enemy shells were now landing on the shoreline and machine gun bullets were raking the sand. Then, at the top of his voice, the helmsman shouted: 'Hundred to go, seventy-five to go, all ready, fifty to go!"

Bill Cheall, Lance Corporal, 6th Battalion, Green Howards

"A burst of automatic fire crackled in, just over our heads. No one was hit. With a yell, 2nd Loot White sprung to his feet and jumped out into the knee-deep water. To our surprise, he disappeared from sight! He had fallen into a shell hole, obscured by the water."

Brian Moss, Sergeant,

233 Field Company, Royal Engineers / 5EY

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2 North Africa WW2 - Veterans' accounts of Second World War Apr 11, 2013

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Veteran accounts of the key battle which led to victory in North Africa, Second World War

Wadi Akarit - World War Two's own Charge of the Light Brigade!

"A patrol went out that night. Lance Corporal Joe Ryder of Spennymoor went with them. He was a long-term member of 2 Platoon and told us afterwards how they had penetrated the enemy positions and, encountering an enemy patrol, had lain doggo. A member of the enemy patrol had put a foot on Joe's hand as he lay there ..." Brian Moss, Sergeant, 233 Field Company, Royal Engineers

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1 Dunkirk WW2 - Veteran Bill Cheall's story of the beaches, Second World War Apr 11, 2013

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Gripping veteran account of the Beaches at Dunkirk, 1940, WWII.

Bill Cheall's dramatic experience on the beaches at Bray-Dunes, France, 1940, trying to get back to England in WWII.