Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings with memoirs about the tough training for D-Day and stories about Landing Craft Tanks delivering their cargo of hardware and humans to the battle-strewn beaches.
"We had delivered to Juno and Gold and were returning our Landing Craft Tank to England. We were close to our shores when we pancaked down so hard in the sea that we broke our craft’s back.
"A German armoured machine gun truck with infantry squad stopped next to the American soldiers. The officer barked “Raus! Raus mit den Händen hoch!”
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40 Four Brits & a Frenchman at Dunkirk plus Gallipoli
39 Stan Perry Listener Feedback and WW2 Quiz
38 Sergeant Eion McEwan - Paras WWII
36 WW2 Tank Captain Stanley Perry PART ONE
37 WW2 Tank Captain Stanley Perry PART TWO
35 Freddie Linacre POW WW2 veteran interview
34 Wartime Holidays WW2
33 Wartime Recipes and WRENS in WW2
32 Women at War, WW2 history
31 Child of War - An interview with German Volker Wehrum, WW2
30 Queen Mary in WW2
29 Prisoner of War, Brian Asquith WWII
28 Wilf Shaw RIP Tribute
27 D-Day Veterans remember - Bennett and Cheall, WWII
26 The Zilken Letters. A veteran exposes the army's best kept WWII secrets!
25 Sgt Rufty Hill meets Winston Churchill in WWII
24 Christmas at War Bill Cheall WW2 History
23 Wilf Shaw - WWII army veteran interview 3
22 Wilf Shaw - WWII army veteran interview 2
21 Angus Wallace of the WW2 Podcast interviews Paul Cheall
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