Don’t take our word for it, take it from Lt John Grimball, 14th Tank Battalion.

All the news from the 12th of March 1945 on NOTW

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We have a smorgasbord of maps for you, all from the same front page of the Daily Dispatch…. Not a lot of space to show Norway, The Bulge and The Philippines…. Poor old @merrynwalters.uk is having a fit

Our photo of the week is all about the diversity of the sprawling conflict, Sikh sappers, sailor girls, German generals and prefab housing… it’s got it all!

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There’s lots more news: Bedford bus fiascos, Himmler Volssturm nerves, and news from the battle for Budapest. @AndyAitcheson and @rentaquill will update you on the lot linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

Here’s our archive in action! Great to see it and we’d love to see more of it. Please go to our Patreon to get access and support what we do (another thousand archive wallets ordered yesterday and sixty more storage boxes - over £500 spent on ‘logistics’ of managing this just this week).

The more No. 75 the “Hawkins” grenade, the less I like it. So many accidents in the war. This case is different, the Sgt instructor was fucking about with a live mine in a lecture… the cardinal rule in the RE was TREAT DUMMY AS LIVE

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Thanks to @vickersmg.bsky.social 🫡

We also talked with John @badsocialism.bsky.social about African American troops in Britain. The insane mental gymnastics the US army has to go through to continue segregation and Jim Crow laws in a country where officially there’s no segregation laws.

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Thank you James. Really appreciate this 🫡

This was an absolute pleasure to record: thanks to @andyaitch.bsky.social and @merrynwalters.uk for having me on!

Absolutely brilliant guest editor special this week!!

We were so lucky to have John Concah @badsocialism.bsky.social come on and take us through how the newspapers talked about the Atlantic charter, Caribbean and West Indian experience in wartime Britain and much much more.
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I love this illustration by Bryan De Grineau, from the ILN. It reminds me a little of the photo of 155 Inf Bde with 8th Amd Bde before Blackcock (shared by SRY association).

I think it says something about the relaxed professionalism of 21st Army Group in 1945.

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One of the headlines stood out this week: the effects of war on the people fighting it. The transition from frontline during to the relative safety of London was too much for some.

New ep, 23rd of December 1944.

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Out tomorrow - new episode.
All the headlines from the 23rd of December 1944…. Will the war be over by the end of the year?

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All human life is here, including murdering Frenchies. @andyaitch.bsky.social is on a tear about the KOSBs. As an aside when I was 14/15 I met a former ‘tail end Charlie’, no B/S or boastful claims. He told me he thinks, couldn’t be sure, that he saw Gibson’s Mossie go down. Flew into terrain.

Come on… what other podcast provides you with instructions on how to down a jet engined aeroplane??

This weeks ep - 4th November 1944.

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News of the War - 20th June 1944 "News of The War" – EPSOM. No getting round it, he's off. She's catching up. And then there's D-Day, and pipers, and sad stories, and mad stories - THE RABBIT CLUB - and news of V1s and V2s ... it's…

pca.st/episode/5a9f... Pulled up short by the story of Padre Perry. My Uncle landed with 6th Airborne and was wounded on d-day. Aid station he was taken to came under attack. Survived, RTU only to die April 10 1945. @merrynwalters.uk @andyaitch.bsky.social @newsofthewar.bsky.social

New ep this Friday… all the headlines from the 4th of November 1944.

Join us, won’t you?
@andyaitch.bsky.social @merrynwalters.uk

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Thanks, James

A prince with…ahem…. A secret past that only comes out years later?

Finger on the pulse as ever at @newsofthewar.bsky.social

All the news headlines from the 6th September 1944

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Great British booze scandal…. Coming this Friday in our latest episode - all the main headlines from the 6th September 1944.

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By late June a lot of the stories from D-Day were coming out. The intrepid reporter Leonard Mosley dropped with 6th Airborne on the 6th of June and reported on the death of 7 Para Padre, George Parry. Here’s a clip of Mosley hanging around Windy Gales HQ on the 11th of June.
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Aw James, you’re too kind. I’m really glad you enjoyed it

🚨 Listen lads, I can’t stress enough how VERY IMPORTANT it is that two absolute idiots do an EMERGENCY PODCAST episode about the situation in Iran (Persia) between 1939 and 1945. 🚨

Very serious and very important, okay?

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Incredibly serious and important EMERGENCY PERSIA (or Iran) POD

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Thanks James! They definitely are real

If you want a laugh, you could spend a few minutes listening to me try and explain Frank Aiken and the Republic of Irelands neutrality during the Second World War.
I think you can audibly hear @rentaquill wince at one point.

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German ice was rather good for curling, that’s all I’m saying.

The Second World War. You cannot escape it.

Wimpole. Saturday morning, 2026

Good to see friend of the show, VD make an appearance again.

Even if you don’t listen to the whole episode, skip to 13m 20s
Bonkers.

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