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The Daredevils of D-Day - Part 2
Amazing War Stories - June 19, 2024 23:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsIn the late hours of hours of June 5th, 1944 six Horsa gliders, towed by Halifax bombers made their way across the channel. Inside the lead glider, codenamed Chalk 91, sat 30 men readying themselves for one of the most daring missions of D-Day. Little did the men realise that the next 24 hours w...
The Daredevils of D-Day - Part 1
Amazing War Stories - June 06, 2024 07:08 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsIn the late hours of hours of June 5th, 1944 six Horsa gliders, towed by Halifax bombers made their way across the channel. Inside the lead glider, codenamed Chalk 91, sat 30 men readying themselves for one of the most daring missions of D-Day. Little did the men realise that the next 24 hours w...
Lightning Strikes & The Ragged Irregulars of Bassingbourne
Amazing War Stories - February 08, 2024 00:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn the 9th of October, 1943, one of the bloodiest air battles of the war was unfolding over German skies. Over 300 hundred fighters were attacking the Flying Fortresses of the American 1st air division, who were on a daylight bombing raid to Anklam, East Germany. The dog fighting was savage, the...
Extra Ammo - The Pilot Episode
Amazing War Stories - January 11, 2024 00:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsAmazing War Stories: Extra Ammo is the supporting VODCAST of the Amazing War Stories Podcast - click the link in the show notes to watch the video version. In each of these new episodes, hosts Ed Sayer and Bruce Crompton talk about military heroes and examine rare military artefacts. In this pi...
WarDaddy - The Real Fury
Amazing War Stories - December 07, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn a moonlit night of 28th August 1944 an American Sherman M4A1-76 tank sat on a hillside watching the approaching train in the valley below. Sitting on top was a sergeant, Lafayette G Pool. There was nothing normal about this soldier however, he was the US Army’s most feared tank commander and b...
The Punishers of Pebble Island
Amazing War Stories - November 09, 2023 00:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsIn the early hours of the 15th May 1982 three SeaKing helicopters lifted off the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes in complete darkness. On board were 42 soldiers of the Special Air Service - their destination, an enemy airfield whose position threatened the entire British landing force. The st...
The Kings of Kokoda
Amazing War Stories - July 19, 2023 23:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn the 29th August 1942 a soldier of the Australian Maroubra Force placed his hand on the bipod of his Bren gun, the barrel was still too hot to hold and loaded a fresh magazine. The enemy, only yards away, were crashing through the jungle towards them. The Australian Force were massively outnumb...
The Hitmen of Heraklion
Amazing War Stories - July 05, 2023 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn the morning of June 10th, 1942 six armed men in three rubber dinghies filled with explosives, paddled ashore to a small beach near Malia, Crete. Their mission - to destroy as many planes as possible at the Luftwaffe Airbase at Heraklion. But already, the operation wasn’t going to plan. They ha...
The Demolition Men of D-Day
Amazing War Stories - June 21, 2023 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn the night of 6th June 1944 at 4:50 am, an army medic jeep pulling a small two wheeled trailer, careened through the little French town of Troarn. It was under blistering attack from a garrison of Panzergrenadiers that had set up their headquarters there. But on board the jeep there were no med...
Season 2 Trailer
Amazing War Stories - March 24, 2023 22:58 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsProduced in glorious 3D audio, Bruce Crompton tells amazing true war stories taken from museum collections in order to help safeguard the nation's historical treasures before they are lost from the public forever. For the ultimate, immersive experience please wear headphones. Sign up to our news...
The Commandos that Grinched Christmas
Amazing War Stories - December 26, 2020 00:05 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsFormer Special Forces Operative (and star of Channel 4's SAS Who Dares Wins) Jason Fox joins Bruce along with Royal Marines Colonel Nik Cavill to tell the story of this remarkable Commando Raid that started on Boxing Day 1941... Summary On the 27th December, 1941, in a small island town in the no...
The Cliff Rangers of Calvados
Amazing War Stories - November 20, 2020 00:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn June 6th 1944 a band of US Army Rangers undertook one of the second world war’s most daring missions. Ahead of the main D Day landings, under ferocious fire, they had to land on an exposed beach, scale a 100ft cliff before attacking a well armed and heavily defended German force. Against overw...
The Assassins of Alexandria
Amazing War Stories - November 13, 2020 00:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn the night of the 10th November 1941 two submarines stealthily left the harbour at Alexandria and headed for Northern Libya. On board were 53 Commandos and 6 Special Boat Service operatives. Underway was one of the most audacious missions of the entire Second World War - a secret attempt to ass...
The Striker of The Somme - A Remembrance Day Special
Amazing War Stories - November 06, 2020 00:05 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsWhen legendary footballer Walter Tull joins the army in the First World War he becomes the first black British officer to lead white men into battle and is mentioned in dispatches for a dangerous raid in Italy. He suffers shell shock, trench fever, is gassed, faces flame throwers and finally Germ...
The Heroes of HQ Company
Amazing War Stories - October 30, 2020 00:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn the freezing night of December 20th 1944 men of the US 82nd Airborne, 504 Parachute Infantry Regiment fought head-on with a deadly SS Panzer Group that vastly outgunned them. This little known battle, which raged for nearly 2 days, would prove to be a pivotal turning point in the Second World ...
The Night Raiders of Normandy
Amazing War Stories - October 22, 2020 23:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsIn almost complete darkness, on the 27th February 1942, 120 men from the newly formed Parachute Regiment, went on a bold mission - to steal technology from a new German Radar installation that was causing heavy losses on Allied aircraft. This is the true story of 7 of the men who took part in tha...
The Legend of Lancaster A for Apple
Amazing War Stories - October 15, 2020 23:05 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsOn the cold evening of the 20th of December 1943 over 650 Allied planes took off from their bases in England and headed for Frankfurt on what they hoped would be a decisive blow against Nazi Germany. But for one crew in particular this sortie would become a desperate fight for survival from which...
Amazing War Stories with Bruce Crompton Trailer
Amazing War Stories - September 18, 2020 08:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsProduced in glorious 3D audio, Bruce Crompton tells amazing true war stories taken from museum collections in order to help safeguard the nation's historical treasures before they are lost from the public forever. For the ultimate, immersive experience please wear headphones. Series launching 16t...
Amazing War Stories with Bruce Crompton Season 1 Trailer
Amazing War Stories - September 18, 2020 08:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 330 ratingsProduced in glorious 3D audio, Bruce Crompton tells amazing true war stories taken from museum collections in order to help safeguard the nation's historical treasures before they are lost from the public forever. For the ultimate, immersive experience please wear headphones. Sign up to our newsl...
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