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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Hugh Verity

Hugh Verity was an RAF fighter pilot and later a "special duties" squadron pilot working with SOE landing in occupied France to insert and extract...
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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Marcel Jaurant-Singer

Marcel Jaurent Singer was a Wireless operator and resistance organiser from Lyon in France. He helped to establish many resistance connections. A wireless operator and...
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Civilian - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Betty Norton

As part of their training, Betty used to have to try to lose a tail! The insightful memories of a female coder working in North...
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Army - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Arthur Brown

Sergeant Arthur Brown originally joined the Royal Artillery in 1943. He soon found that it wasn't really exciting enough... Arthur Brown talks about his WWII...
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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Yvonne Baseden

Yvonne started her military career with the WAAF and then joined the FANY. She trained as wireless operator and parachuted into France in March 1944....
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RAF - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

Andrzej Jeziorski

Although aware of the seriousness of the situation unfolding around him. Andrzej remembers his escape from Poland as an adventure. Having escaped the invasion of...
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Army - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Arthur Staggs

Arthur Staggs was an SOE wireless operator in northern France whose fluency in patois saved him from the Gestapo. A determined and resilient wireless operator...
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Paul Farnes

Paul Farnes is one of the surviving pilots from the Battle of Britain. He was awarded 8 kills and a DFM. A story of valour,...
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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Fred Gardiner

Fred Gardiner’s Lancaster bomber was shot down over occupied Belgium and surviving the drop he evades capture with the help of a local resistance network....
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Civilian - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Daphne Park

Daphne Park was a British Spy. She gives a great account of her life in the FANY where she was quickly promoted and helped to...
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Civilian - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Ann Bonsor

Ann Bonsor was a Wireless operator at SOE's 'Massingham' base in Algeria. Her job was to communicate with agents working behind the lines Ann Bonsor...
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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Bob Frost

Bob Frost flew Wellington Bombers with 150 Squadron. On the 16th September 1942, he was shot down over occupied Belgium and became an RAF evader....
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Navy - Naval Convoys (1939–1945)

Irene Bellamy

Irene Bellamy provides an entertaining and detailed account of her service in the WRENS. Before D-Day had even taken place, she was typing up... An...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

Dennis Bowen

Dennis Bowen provides a very detailed account of his Normandy Campaign in the East Yorkshire Regiment. A young soldier joins with idolised views on war...
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Civilian - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Elvira Burbeck

Elvira Burbeck gives an enlightening interview about her service as a FANY. She operated out of Massingham and Italy. Elvira Burbeck’s WW2 Journey From...
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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

George Duffee

Capt George Duffee was a Captain pilot in the RAF. Returning from a bombing raid, his plane is shot up over Holland and he bails...
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Bob Montgomery

Captain Bob Montgomery was awarded the Military Cross for his part in Operation Chariot. Better known as the Assault on the St Nazaire docks ...
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Army - D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (1944)

Bill Price

World War 2 Veteran who volunteered for the Territorial Army before serving for the 76th Anti-Aircraft Brigade at one of the Mulberry Harbours during...
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RAF - Our Secret War (1939–1945)

Tommy Thomas

Flight Officer 'Tommy' Thomas completed 33 operations from Tangmere and Tempsford on Hudsons and Lysanders. From target towing, to covert missions with 161 Special Duties...
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Freddie Hunn

Major Freddie Hunn gives a brilliant account of his military service up top to the end of the North African campaign. He served with the 12...
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Women of the Army (1949-92)

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