Fighting Through WW2 History Paul Cheall WWII

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/94-Dunkirk-Special-Bob-Metcalf-Brit-Canadian-Green-Howard-WW2-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
 

Featuring No time for dreams: a soldier’s six-year journey through World War II. 
By Robert W. Metcalfe, 4th Green Howards
Bob Metcalf enlisted in the fourth battalion, the Green Howards in December 1935. He saw action in France in 1940, where he was wounded. Subsequently, he served with the sixth battalion, the Green Howards, and the western desert, in Sicily, and was part of a British increment that fought with the fifth United States Army in Italy. After the war, Bob lived in Canada and became a Canadian citizen. He wrote his memoir in the early 1970’s.
Plus loads of family stories!
More great unpublished history of world war two!
Full show notes, photos and transcript at:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/94-Dunkirk-Special-Bob-Metcalf-Brit-Canadian-Green-Howard-WW2-history
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Links to features in the show:
France and Flanders – The Scotsmen story 
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0rqsd4pF1fs37YC76TPuVgh4tpudaa3Lu7nHhMMX71WGSMQo2rnJ7Vu8eJ6hADWuFl&id=100072081056641
D-Day Operation Overlord facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1528243384106448/permalink/3551589835105116/
Assn of Dunkirk ships
https://www.facebook.com/DunkirkShips/
https://www.adls.org.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/culturevannin/photos/a.421476987984802/2655215381277607/?type=3
Isle of Man Culture Vannin Facebook page
for the Manx Heritage foundation: taking Manx culture forward
https://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/videos/world-war-two--the-isle-of-man-411483/?fbclid=IwAR1DGg6OnFOGCNd1evVKIBIUuliCuwI7vT-v5xDUcN44-bE5hSJ-kG1myjI
Reddit Stories about WW2 heroes. Sgt Carbonero:
https://reddit.com/r/ww2/s/7zhCVvj7sr
Friends of Normanby Village Facebook page – 4th Green Howard story. Albert Edward Mead.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/614763812894288/posts/1047674802936518/?comment_id=1047749999595665&reply_comment_id=1047877976249534&notif_id=1699710094723212&notif_t=group_comment_mention
 

More from Dave Thomas about his father’s exploits in the 82nd airborne in Italy.
Preview of The Secret Beach: A Kids World War 2 Adventure. By James Papalia
Green Howards feature - online Sicily exhibition
Telephone chat with veteran Ken Cooke who has some more titbits to share with us about his time in Normandy, with an absolutely superb explanation about what it was like fighting in the French bocage.
Loads of family stories!
More great unpublished history of world war two!
Full show notes, photos and transcript at:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/93-the-82nd-airborne-Part-2-letters-from-Sicily-and-Italy-WWII-WW2/
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Links to features in the show:
The Secret Beach - Great WW2 history for kids!  Buy here on Amazon:
https://a.co/d/6klDSeb
Green Howards
https://greenhowards.org.uk/
Online Sicily Exhibition 
See: https://greenhowards.org.uk/exhibition/first-foot-on-fortress-europe/
Kilroy
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wwiiphotographs/permalink/663597541886219/
Edward ‘Teddy’ Sheean VC WW2 STORIES OF CHAOS AND COURAGE 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1365913053815596/
Champagne Sylvie. La Vie en France
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkRdwn9Ktd1z79n08YYVwhw
Facebook story: WW2 STORIES OF CHAOS AND COURAGE The surly petty officer
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1456548118085422/
Battles and Beers. Every soldier has a story, and every story deserves to be told. Nicholas Laidlaw - What War did to us
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1156444198095817/
And here is the background to the Italian mission from 
http://www.facesbeyondthegraves.com/pagina43.html
My mum kept her dads World War I record secret until I found them online.
https://facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1456548118085422/
 
 

A great family story from Dave Thomas about his father’s exploits in the 82nd airborne in Sicily and Italy.
Telephone chat with veteran Ken Cooke who has some more titbits to share with us about his time in Normandy, with an absolutely superb explanation about what it was like fighting in the French bocage.
Interview with Claire and Steve from the Soldier’s Charity about a very special Normandy tour you will wish to join later this year.
Loads of family stories!
Full show notes, photos and transcript at:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/92-the-82nd-airborne-letters-from-sicily-and-italy-in-WWII

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Links to features in the show:
Links for episode 82
ABF The Soldiers’ Charity on their event ‘The Frontline Walk’ 
Visit www.soldierscharity.org/frontlinewalk for more information.
Normandy specific website: The Frontline Walk: The Normandy Beaches 2023 (soldierscharity.org)
Normandy route
Day 1: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/39060395
Day 2: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/39060402
Day 3: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/39060403
Video:
Frontline Walk 2022 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9wAFB6h7MFoohx7WiH7LTA
Song for the Bad Guys - Nick Feint
Nick’s music is hosted on the bandcamp website and there’s a link to in the shownotes
https://nickfeint.bandcamp.com/track/song-for-the-bad-guys
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YEOGDmc5v3Foe8IDfujTt?si=vcK-KBDTT4i4UITLbLoOFQ
Nick Feint - Coming Up Roses 
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YEOGDmc5v3Foe8IDfujTt?si=vcK-KBDTT4i4UITLbLoOFQ
505 Parachute Infantry Regiment website
http://www.505rct.org/SICILY.asp
D-Day and TimeGhost History's 24 hour coverage of D-Day, as it really happened. Clips, playlists, and all the chapters of that day as it unfolded.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9wAFB6h7MFoohx7WiH7LTA
Great British Life online Magazine – link …
https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/22630675.story-behind-luftwaffes-attack-new-mills/
Fred Thomas 504 PIR WW2

 

An interview with Dominic Frisby. The Kisses on a Postcard musical charts the true story of two young British evacuees during WW2. Features mystery postcard messages, the bombing of Plymouth, American GI's and crashing German bombers.
Dominic’s work is full to bursting with Dunkirk spirit, steam trains and all the best of WW2 Britishness. 
And never ever was an episode better timed to coincide with world events.
More great unpublished history of the second world war!
Buy the book, the CD's, hear the musical as a podcast. All links and pod players at:
www.kissesonapostcard.com
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Part 2
A classic tale of British infantry adventure in WW2. How the Fighting Through WW2 memoirs podcast put the families of two war comrades in touch with each other.
Sicily and D-Day campaigns featured. Durham Light Infantry DLI and Green Howards feature.
More great unpublished history!
Buy Alf Blackburn's War Memoirs at:
https://amzn.to/3I8cFxd

Full show notes, photos and transcript at:
https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/90-Alfred-Blackburn-War-Memoirs-Part-2
Rennie Shaw
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56500895/rennie-shaw/flower
Augie Herchenratter
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/war-hero-augie-herchenratter-hoped-to-make-it-to-the-nhl/article37536495/
Men of Worth project
https://www.menofworth.org.uk/
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