105 Sniper, POW, Blitz, more WW2 stories - Tenth Anniversary PART TWO

Fighting Through WWII Stories & History

Veteran Wilf Shaw, Australian Les Cook, POW's, Gallipoli and more, PART TWO of an anniversary special celebrating ten years in podcasting.

Episode artwork:Jesse Rance, London Metropolitan Police between 1936 - 1966. Endured the WW2 blitz bombing. What a tough beat to patrol! Curious story revealed in the show.

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https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/105-Tenth-Anniversary-Part-Two-with-more-second-world-war-stories

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Links to features in the show:

BOOKS

D-Day Through German Eyes, by Jonathan Trigg https://amzn.to/3ZYUP9a

Mines, Bombs, Bullets and Bridges: A Sapper's Second World War Diary by Michael Moss https://amzn.to/3NnKITW

Save the Last Bullet https://amzn.to/3NEUyB0

No Time for Dreams – Robert W Metcalf

https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Time-Dreams-Soldiers-Six-Year/dp/1896182798

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781896182797/Time-Dreams-Soldiers-Six-Year-Journey-1896182798/plp

Cassino '44: The Bloodiest Battle of the Italian Campaign – James Holland

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cassino-44-Bloodiest-Italian-Campaign

EPISODES

5 Claude Reynolds 1 - Coffee with Claude - Lancaster rear gunner interview

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/5-claude-reynolds-ww2-lancaster-veteran-interview-1/

12 Claude Reynolds 2 - WW2 Lancaster veteran interview

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/12-claude-reynolds-2-ww2-lancaster-veteran-interview/

9 Dunkirk Diaries of Major Leslie Petch OBE WWII

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/9-dunkirk-diaries-of-major-leslie-petch-obe-wwii/

26 The Zilken Letters. A veteran exposes the army's best kept WWII secrets!

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/26-the-zilken-letters-a-veteran-exposes-the-armys-best-kept-wwii-secrets/

33 Women at War 2 - Wartime Recipes and WRENS

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/33-wartime-recipes-and-wrens-in-ww2/

46 Through German Eyes in the Second World War

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/46-through-german-eyes-in-the-second-world-war/

47 D-Day Through German Eyes Part Two

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/47-through-german-eyes-part-two/

69 German Boy Soldier Willi Langbein WW2

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/69-german-boy-soldier-willi-langbein-ww2/

Save the Last Bullet book and audio book

https://amzn.to/4h0OAHW

73 Jack Stansfield POW in WW2

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/73-Jack-Stansfield-POW-in-WW2/

National Archives at Kew, UK https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17150376

78 German Submariner Part 1: Atlantic, POW in Canada.

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/78-german-submariner-and-pow/

Helmut Keune story in Canadian magazine McLeans, from 1949. https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1949/7/15/what-happened-in-the-bismarck

91 Kisses on a Postcard - child evacuees - interview with Dominic Frisby

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/91-Kisses-on-a-Postcard-Evacuees-in-

WW2 Stories of Chaos and Courage - HMS BULLDOG and Enigma codes

https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1682478342159064/?rdid=C4mzt6h6eLyTSER3&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fp%2F9j382bZ4cVizdp1Z

Coded letters

https://www.reddit.com/r/ww2/s/3EoV8PUqzy

Sound effects:

Hurricane and Spitfire dog fighting - Sound courtesy of JimSim on Freesound

https://freesound.org/people/jimsim/sounds/434671/#comments

Sonar

https://freesound.org/people/Peter_Gross/sounds/12677/

Morse

https://freesound.org/people/christislord/sounds/553739/#comments

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