James Holland

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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk · Stalingrad Of The Adriatic: The Sangro (Part 1) · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

the other without all the other stuff that I'm sure you'd rather have. voice-verified

very, very soon on chussi chuss. voice-verified

Cheerio. voice-verified

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk · Beneath The Coventry Blitz · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

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Hello and welcome to our series of Family Stories, the podcast written by you, the listener.

Today we're bringing you a whole range of stories and accounts, from a sailor sunk off Lisbon, the reality behind Anzac Digger Life, and a forgotten letter from the Commentary Blitz.

First up we have this story from Will, who writes, I want to tell you about two men whose stories I've spent the last few months piecing together.

One is my grandfather, one is my wife's.

They never met, served in completely different parts of the war, and neither family knew the full story of what either man had actually been through, until my father in law found a stack of log books in the loft.

My wife's grandfather was Stanley Paul Smith, Stan, a spitfire and Mustang pilot who flew with forty three squadron across North Africa, Tunisia, Malta, Sicily, and Italy between nineteen forty two and nineteen forty four.

And then with 611 Squadron, from Arnhem through to the end of the war.

Towards the end of his life, with his memory going, he said something out of nowhere that nobody in the family understood at the time.

There was these poor buggers in the water.

I never forgot that.

That was it.

He never explained it.

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