Fighting Through WWII Stories & History Paul Cheall WW2

A special episode to commemorate the events of D-Day 6 June 44. The 80th anniversary. Four veteran accounts of the landings.
D-Day Episodes mentioned:
Bill Cheall: Episode 3
William Hershel Nelson: Episode 99 
Eric Clarke: Episode 42 D-Day 75 - Landing Craft Tank in WWII - Eric Clark D-Day veteran memoir
Brian Moss: Episodes 2, 3 and 13
Through German Eyes in the Second World War: Episodes 46/47
All D-Day/Normandy episodes:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/category/d-day/
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Books mentioned:
Fighting Through from Dunkirk to Hamburg – Bill Cheall:
https://amzn.to/3KpppQq
The Trials and Tribulations of a D-Day landing on Omaha Beach – BBC People’s War – 
Published Memoir: The Untold Story by William Hershel Nelson:
https://amzn.eu/d/364xd3G
Brian Moss in Mines, Bombs, Bullets and Bridges: A Sapper's Second World War Diary – by Mike Moss:
https://amzn.to/4ehXIqu
Full show notes, photos and transcript at:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/99-Omaha-Heroes-and-their-WW2-stories
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More Omaha WWII history action with family stories and a memoir feature you do not want to miss. And if you want to end with a smile do not miss the PS!
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Episode Artwork:
Sergant Giovanni Pezzella - See the PS for his story.
 
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Eyewitness D-Day by Jon E Lewis
https://amzn.to/4bCQxay
Memoir: The Untold Story by William Hershel Nelson 
https://amzn.eu/d/364xd3G
 

Another great line-up of WW2 sniper stories featuring female snipers, British veteran Harry Furness, the psychology of sniping and stories from Crete and Sicily along with one or two more surprises. And the usual PS's!
Great Unpublished History!
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Links to features in the show:
Gary Yee's book: World War II Snipers (1939-45) The Men, Their Guns, Their Story 
Here's a link to Amazon in the US:
https://www.amazon.com/World-War-II-Snipers-Illustrated/dp/1636240984
Google extracts from Gary Yee’s book
https://www.google.com/books/edition/World_War_II_Snipers/MtBkEAAAQBAJ?q=el+alamein+sniping+spots&gbpv=0#f=false
The High Road Sniper Story forum:
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/a-collection-of-bedtime-stories-or-sharpshooter-sniper-tales.36853/page-19
Military History Company
https://www.worldwarsupply.com/
The Secret Drop - James Papalia's new book, covered in the Christmas episode. 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSWGJRTT?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_GZHD1DWSD9AFSJ9M3YW3&language=en-US&fbclid=IwAR1E2IBqfEsTX0_On3vxT6twWN9SLID7fVRpbeZ2_2ftR6r0Lr2dxMc-svU_aem_AXaujzVFtVPlekILmZr_1-21D6F34E2-lSslmNoaYr5-V0lDjwetkGK2z7GFVNzoFac
Reddit war stories forum
Sgt Carbonero said:
https://reddit.com/r/ww2/s/7zhCVvj7sr
 

Another tranche of Sniper stories based around the book, World War II Snipers - The Men, Their Guns, Their Story, by Gary Yee. Features selection of personnel, training, tactics and the weapons themselves. Lots of  WW2 stories and eye witness accounts from around the world.
Great Unpublished History!
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Links to features in the show:
Gary’s book: World War II Snipers (1939-45) The Men, Their Guns, Their Story 
Here's a link to Amazon in the US:
https://www.amazon.com/World-War-II-Snipers-Illustrated/dp/1636240984
 
Google extracts from Gary Yee’s book
https://www.google.com/books/edition/World_War_II_Snipers/MtBkEAAAQBAJ?q=el+alamein+sniping+spots&gbpv=0#f=false

The High Road Sniper Story forum:
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/a-collection-of-bedtime-stories-or-sharpshooter-sniper-tales.36853/page-19
Military History Company
https://www.worldwarsupply.com/
The Secret Drop - James new book, covered in the Christmas episode. 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSWGJRTT?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_GZHD1DWSD9AFSJ9M3YW3&language=en-US&fbclid=IwAR1E2IBqfEsTX0_On3vxT6twWN9SLID7fVRpbeZ2_2ftR6r0Lr2dxMc-svU_aem_AXaujzVFtVPlekILmZr_1-21D6F34E2-lSslmNoaYr5-V0lDjwetkGK2z7GFVNzoFac
Reddit war stories forum
Sgt Carbonero said:
https://reddit.com/r/ww2/s/7zhCVvj7sr

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
Sounds
Lancaster crashing - Plane Crash.flac Copyright 2013 Iwan Gabovitch, CC-BY3 license.
http://freesound.org/people/Snipperbes/sounds/145365/
 

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:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/95-Dunkirk-Special-PART-TWO-Bob-Metcalf-World-War-Two-history/
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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
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
Recollections of Lieutenant JWR Cocke - Wilbur
https://www.facebook.com/861551180637519/posts/pfbid023vpZUKbAJvcmkh2Y4HXQh25buYPeT4doKhBSzfnPus328rVKso3GuuQJvxuqZSpol/
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