World War 2 Podcasts for BOB Fans

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Hello! I'm a big podcast fan, as I like to have a podcast or audiobook on while cleaning and driving. Here's some relevant podcast eps for the Band of Brothers fic writer.

WW2 Podcast - Left for Dead at Nijmegen  (link to listen or download as mp3, also available on most smartphone podcast apps)

On the 17th September 1944 Gene Metcalfe, of the 82 Airbourne, parachuted in to Holland as part of Operation Market Garden. Approaching the bridge they were to capture Gene is injured in a firefight and left for dead. He would spend the rest of the war as a POW. I talk to Gene about his wartime experiences in the Airbourne, as a POW and what happened once he was liberated.

 

WW2 Podcast - Operation Market Garden 

September 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, the allied attempt to create a sixty mile corridor, and secure a crossing over the Rhine. The plan was to use the newly formed First Allied Airborne Army to seize and hold nine key bridges until relieved by the British Army’s XXX Corp. The Airborne component was known as Market, and the ground attack was Garden. Joining me to talk about the background to airborne operations and Market Garden is Dr William Buckingham. William is the author or Arnhem: The Complete Story of Operation Market Garden 17-25 September 1944.

 

 

History of World War Two Podcast - War Animals

Writer Robin Hutton talks about her latest book which tells of the animals who contributed to the Allied effort of WWII. There’s Chips, who served as a sentry dog for the Roosevelt-Churchill conference; Ding, a paradog* whose plane was hit by enemy fire on D-Day, ended up in a tree, and once on the ground still saved lives. 

*Wow there's really not enough paradog content in this fandom.