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:German ship Bismarck. Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fightingthrough Full show notes, photos and transcript at: https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/104-tenth-anniversary-of-ww2-veterans-and-family-stories Reviews on main website:https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/reviews/new/ Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/FightingThrough Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulCheall Follow me on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/FightingThroughPodcast YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnlqRO9MdFBUrKM6ExEOzVQ?view_as=subscriber 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 https://amzn.to/4h0OAHW 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