104 Tenth Anniversary Part One - German stories and Bismarck

Fighting Through WWII Stories & History

An anniversary special celebrating ten years in podcasting. Featuring old favourites and new alike. This episode has a particular focus on Germany in the war, with much more.

Episode artwork:A wounded German sailor from Bismarck is carried up a gangway by a British sailor.

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Links to features in the show:

BOOKS

D-Day Through German Eyes, by Jonathan Trigg https://amzn.to/3ZYUP9a

Mines, Bombs, Bullets and Bridges: A Sapper's Second World War Diary by Michael Moss https://amzn.to/3NnKITW

Save the Last Bullet - Willi Langbein / Heidi Langbein Allen https://amzn.to/3NEUyB0

EPISODES

5 Claude Reynolds 1 - Coffee with Claude - Lancaster rear gunner interview https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/5-claude-reynolds-ww2-lancaster-veteran-interview-1/

12 Claude Reynolds 2 - WW2 Lancaster veteran interview https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/12-claude-reynolds-2-ww2-lancaster-veteran-interview/

9 Dunkirk Diaries of Major Leslie Petch OBE WWII https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/9-dunkirk-diaries-of-major-leslie-petch-obe-wwii/

26 The Zilken Letters. A veteran exposes the army's best kept WWII secrets! https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/26-the-zilken-letters-a-veteran-exposes-the-armys-best-kept-wwii-secrets/

33 Women at War 2 - Wartime Recipes and WRENS https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/33-wartime-recipes-and-wrens-in-ww2/

46 Through German Eyes in the Second World War https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/46-through-german-eyes-in-the-second-world-war/

47 D-Day Through German Eyes Part Two https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/47-through-german-eyes-part-two/

69 German Boy Soldier Willi Langbein WW2

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/69-german-boy-soldier-willi-langbein-ww2/

Save the Last Bullet book and audio book

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73 Jack Stansfield POW in WW2 https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/73-Jack-Stansfield-POW-in-WW2/

National Archives at Kew, UK https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17150376

78 German Submariner Part 1: Atlantic, POW in Canada. https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/78-german-submariner-and-pow/

Helmut Keune story in Canadian magazine McLeans, from 1949. https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1949/7/15/what-happened-in-the-bismarck

91 Kisses on a Postcard - child evacuees - interview with Dominic Frisby

https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/91-Kisses-on-a-Postcard-Evacuees-in-

WW2 Stories of Chaos and Courage - HMS BULLDOG and Enigma codes https://www.facebook.com/groups/754427714964136/permalink/1682478342159064/?rdid=C4mzt6h6eLyTSER3&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fp%2F9j382bZ4cVizdp1Z

Heinrich Severloh was 20 years old on d-day. ww2 stories of chaos and courage https://www.facebook.com/share/p/tBEVyKbwWUYQy1uB/?mibextid=K35XfP

Coded letters https://www.reddit.com/r/ww2/s/3EoV8PUqzy

Sound effects:

Hurricane and Spitfire dog fighting - Sound courtesy of JimSim on Freesound

https://freesound.org/people/jimsim/sounds/434671/#comments

Sonar

https://freesound.org/people/Peter_Gross/sounds/12677/

Morse

https://freesound.org/people/christislord/sounds/553739/#comments

Base wave - Sound Effect from https://pixabay.com/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=6356">Pixabay

Lieutenant General Alan Brooke, GOC II Corps Commander on his evacuation from Dunkirk. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid09qoBWpNWAiuHuwYGrseHw4x18kaTpP1nWVoNyEeVeVp8UHXN9hQbmyYKFFw7LjSPl&id=100072081056641