PART TWO Featuring No time for dreams: a soldier’s six-year journey through World War II.
By Robert W. Metcalfe, 4th Green Howards.
PLUS:
What someone's father found in the jungle AFTER the war.
Who wrote to Bob Metcalfe upon publication of his book.
Full show notes, photos and transcript at:
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Links to features in the show:
Thomas W Gray story - The Eighth Air Force Historical Society (official) Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/8THAFHS/permalink/6392716644111145/
WW2 Stories of Chaos and Courage Robert Gough
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1401905480216353/?mibextid=zDhOQc
Spitfire downed on Dunkirk beach
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1298240560582846/?mibextid=zDhOQc
Ramsgate life-boat - The France and Flanders Campaign 1940 Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/861551180637519/posts/pfbid0MUyULj43uQvZ7CJjWhUJRUEd6P4xmbBKapXfv1d2hTvUzmcEAQYV1ZCeEa4Q7Xvql/
Thomas W Gray - The Eighth Air Force Historical Society (official) Facebook
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WW2 Stories of Chaos and Courage Robert Gough
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1401905480216353/?mibextid=zDhOQc
Recollections of Lieutenant JWR Cocke - Wilbur
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More Dunkirk stories:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/search/?q=dunkirk
Seth Vader's grandfather's memoir:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ww2/s/5OHnpaX7S9
John Moran of Scottish parentage but a Canadian wrote a book under the name Ian Moran called the Lone Piper.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Lone-Piper-Story-Millin-Lovats/dp/1706961251
19 Best of the First 5 years Part 2
17 Gallipoli Part 2. WW1 Memoirs of Sgt Fred Reynard
16 Gallipoli Part 1. WW1 Memoirs of Sgt Fred Reynard
15 The WWII Poems of Sapper John Frederick Smith 2022
14 The Last Flight of Lancaster Lily Mars, WW2
13 Blitz bomb disposal memoirs of Sgt Brian Moss, Royal Engineers, WWII
12 Claude Reynolds 2 - WW2 Lancaster veteran interview
11 Dunkirk little ship, The Bee memoir WW2
10 Dunkirk ship diaries of Capt Tom Woods OBE, WW2
9 Dunkirk Diaries of Major Leslie Petch OBE WWII
8 D-Day WWII poems of D E Gray
7 D-Day Diary of D Gray Part 2
6 D-Day Diary of D Gray Part 1
5 Claude Reynolds - WW2 Lancaster veteran interview 1
4 Wilf Shaw - Veteran interview 1, Second World War
3 D-Day - Sgt Brian Moss Royal Engineers, Second World War
2 North Africa WW2 - Veterans' accounts of Second World War
1 Dunkirk WW2 - Veteran Bill Cheall's story of the beaches, Second World War
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