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Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was the head of the Réseau Alliance - the largest French Resistance Intelligence Network in France during WWII - providing essential information to the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6). She was unique and her story in my view is unmatched. In this episode we hear of her train journey through the Pyrenees to meet MI6 in Madrid, her questioning by the Vichy gove...

Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was the head of the Réseau Alliance - the largest French Resistance Intelligence Network in France during WWII - providing essential information to the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6). She was unique and her story in my view is unmatched. In this episode we hear of her colourful early life in Shanghai, Morocco and Paris and the beginnings of the Alliance Netw...

Tech 5 Sam J. Amico served as an Airborne Medic with the American 326th Airborne Medical Company of the 101st Airborne Division. He landed in Normandy on D-Day, in Holland on the first day of Operation Market Garden and was in The Battle of the Bulge. This is Sam's story from his unpublished autobiography. Podcast written, narrated and produced by Gary Weight. Voice narration of Sam Amico by M...

World War II D-Day veteran Trooper Cecil Newton served as a gunner and loader with the British 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, an armoured regiment of the 8th Armoured Brigade attached to the British 50th Infantry Division. He landed in Normandy on D-Day in an amphibious Sherman DD Tank five minutes prior to the infantry in order to give fire-support to the assault wave. He then battled through Normandy...

Trooper Cecil Newton served as a gunner and loader with the British 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, an armoured regiment of the 8th Armoured Brigade attached to the British 50th Infantry Division. He landed in Normandy on D-Day in an amphibious Sherman Duplex-Drive (DD) Tank five minutes prior to the infantry in order to give fire-support to the assault wave. He then battled through Normandy and Belgium...

Trooper Cecil Newton served as a gunner and loader with the British 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, an armoured regiment of the 8th Armoured Brigade attached to the British 50th Infantry Division and later the Guards Armoured Division. He landed in Normandy on D-Day in an amphibious Sherman Duplex-Drive (DD) Tank five minutes prior to the infantry in order to give fire-support to the assault wave. He th...

Penicillin was available and issued to the Allies in time for D-Day. It undoubtedly saved thousands of lives and post-war became the most important drug of the 20th Century. But how was Penicillin discovered and what part did it play in World War II? Professor Sarah Gurr explains. Podcast written, narrated and produced by Gary Weight. Special Guest: Professor Sarah Gurr. © Gary Weight 2023 These p...

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