Fighting Through WWII Stories & History

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60 Omaha PART 5 - D-Day WW2

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07/19/20 • 197 min

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The FIFTH and FINAL instalment in the memoir Overseas and Over the Top by Morris Prince.

Omaha Beach to the Battle of the Bulge and beyond - in multiple episodes. One man's complete and personal memoir of the entire period from leaving America for England and onto Germany in the Second World War.

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England:

Bude Titchfield Folkestone (Beachburrow-House) Braunton Camp Swanage Dorchester

France: Vierville-sur-Mer Columbieres Isigny Valognes Beaumont-Hague St. Jean De Daye Mortain Mayenne Cherbourg Kerlogué Le Conquet Trebabu St Lo Le Folgoet Ploumouger, Lochrist Battery Argol Crozon Peninsula (Le Fret) Brest Landernau Lesneven

Belgium: Arlon, Belgium

Luxembourg: Esch, Luxembourg

Belgium: Raeran, Belgium

Germany:

The Seigfried Line Germeter (Hells Corner—Hurtgen Forest) Bergstein (Hill 400) Simmerath Roetgen Sohmidthof Crossing of the Roer Wollseifen Kalterherberg Dedenborn Maychoss

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57 Omaha PART 2 - D-Day

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06/10/20 • 77 min

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The second instalment in the memoir Overseas and Over the Top

Omaha Beach to the Battle of the Bulge and beyond - in multiple episodes. One man's complete and personal memoir of the entire period from leaving America for England and onto Germany.

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55 Les Rutherford interview - Lancaster bomb aimer, WW2 history

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05/12/20 • 100 min

Les Rutherford was part of the rear-guard defence of Dunkirk in 1940. He escaped to England in a most novel fashion and later volunteered for the Royal Air Force, becoming a bomb aimer on WWII Lancasters. He completed 23 operations with 50 Squadron from RAF Skellingthorpe but was shot down by a fighter on his 24th operation. He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III, the location of the famed Great Escape.

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54 Okinawa - Saul David - Crucible of Hell WW2

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04/16/20 • 51 min

The Last Great Battle of the Second World War

Featuring passages from Saul David's new book, Crucible of Hell.

When the battle of Okinawa was over, almost a quarter of a million people had lost their lives, making it by far the bloodiest US battle of the Pacific. The horror of the battle ultimately determined President Truman’s choice to use atomic bombs in August 1945.

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51 Episode Fifty Special! Pt Two - Dunkirk 80 & more

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03/03/20 • 129 min

Part Two, Episode Fifty anniversary special

Celebrate Dunkirk 80 with this special episode. Take a trip down the Second World War memory lane of Dunkirk, D-Day, Lancasters, tanks, the Blitz, POW’s, the WW1 battle of Gallipoli and much more. Old stories, new stories and bloopers.

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50 Episode Fifty Special! Pt One - Dunkirk 80 & more

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02/26/20 • 109 min

Celebrating Episode 50!

Take a trip down the Second World War memory lane of Dunkirk, D-Day, Lancasters, tanks, the Blitz, POW’s, the WW1 battle of Gallipoli and much more. Old stories, new stories and bloopers.

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48 Captain H E Hovell - First World War History

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11/10/19 • 122 min

"We went up the line in the trenches at Vimy Ridge. We prepared our emplacement for a raid by the Canadians, to capture prisoners to gain information for the big attack that was to come. We were to fire gas shells during the early hours, followed by smoke, to give the Canadians cover.

"I was first in line but I had to stop for a few moments to feel for my boot in the mud, empty the mud out, and put it on again. I lost my place so then I was ninth in line. Then Jerry dropped a shell right in front of the line ...

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46 D-Day Through German Eyes Part ONE in the Second World War

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10/13/19 • 78 min

Stories about the German side of the Second World War.

"There was a vast number of ships, absolutely vast. I can tell you that my throat went dry painfully dry, and my hands began to shake. I wasn't the only man to be affected that way, one of the very young lads began to retch as if he was going to be sick. It was the effect of pure fear."

"For a couple of days the two sides just existed on opposite sides of a meadow with a tense safety. The Germans could hear the Americans sing songs in the evening, and likely vice versa. Then, one morning the engines of the Sherman tanks came to life ..."

Normandy Memorial Trust Appeal - 75 veteran D-Day stories

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German Soldier on the Eastern front in the Second World War. Courtesy The Other Side Archive

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42 D-Day 75 - Landing Craft Tank in WWII - Eric Clarke

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05/06/19 • 90 min

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 WWII 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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61 Churchill's Hellraisers preview - Damien Lewis, WWII History

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09/04/20 • 115 min

PART ONE

Damien Lewis is the author of new book CHURCHILL’S HELLRAISERS: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress. It’s the TRUE story of a hodge-podge team tasked with sneaking through enemy territory and breaching an otherwise impregnable fortification in Northern Italy, liberating Italy from Nazi control during the second world war.

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