Christmas at war, with more seasonal tales, including a special feature on what Christmas was like in various countries around the globe during WW2. Specials in this episode:German Boy Soldier's Christmas Shoes V1 Doodlebug bombs over Manchester The Last Flight of Lancaster DV189 The Journal of Flight Sergeant Jim Browning Christmas at war around the world
And just to remind you, if you want to fill your December with a catch up on all the previous Christmas episodes for this podcast, you can access them easily by clicking on the episodes item on the website menu and selecting - Christmas!
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Links to features in the show:
Manchester V1 attack WW2 and comments https://aircrashsites.co.uk/air-raids-bomb-sites/luftwaffe-v1-attack-on-manchester-christmas-eve-1944/
Bomber enemies in WWII became friends https://nation.time.com/2012/12/20/a-christmas-story-but-not-by-charles-dickens/
Eugene Fluckey’s book Thunder Below about USS Barb submarine. https://amzn.to/4a9dS3k
SoundsLancaster crashing - Plane Crash.flac Copyright 2013 Iwan Gabovitch, CC-BY3 license.
http://freesound.org/people/Snipperbes/sounds/145365/
78 German Submariner Part 1: Atlantic U-Boat, POW in Canada.
77 CBI Hump Pilot lost in China - The Seabees
76 Christmas at War 2021 WW2 History
75 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 2
74 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 1
73 Jack Stansfield British POW in WW2
72 More Seabees and family stories WWII
71 The Battalion Artist, US Seabees in the Pacific War
70 LCpl Jack Betley WWII comrade
69 German Boy Soldier Willi Langbein WW2
68 Leslie Cook 5 - Australian in Burma WWII
67 Leslie Cook 4 - Sand, Sangers and Home Sweet Home WW2
66 Leslie Cook 3 Aussie in New Guinea WW2
65 Leslie Cook Part 2 Greece PLUS The Great Escape!
64 Cpl Leslie Cook Part 1, Australian in Burma & New Guinea WW2
63 Jean Lindsay, Child of the Second World War
62 Churchill's Hellraisers by Damien Lewis PART 2 WW2 history
61 Churchill's Hellraisers preview - Damien Lewis, WWII History
60 Omaha PART 5 - D-Day WW2
59 Omaha PART 4 - D-Day WW2
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