John Frost

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3,379 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2d ago

John Frost’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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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

Uh and as they trundle up in their trucks the sky is is sort of sullen and bruised, but it but it's not actually raining. matched

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And Palieta itself is a little village on a on a ridge overlooking the Sangrove Valley. matched

Um, so it's south of the sangro. matched

And this has been captured 10 days earlier, and they and they move off through Shirney, which is about 10 miles to the south, and the road is dense with military traffic. matched

Their truck skids slowly past lines of track carriers, 25 pounders with their quads and limbers, and swerving to avoid lines of pack mule companies. matched

And of course, you know, the irony is that you've got this highly motorized and technically advanced. matched

Allied armies going up through Italy, completely dependent on stoic hardy animals, you know, which is sort of goes back to kind of Middle Ages and beyond. matched

And there's a there's a column of Gurkhas that he sees clutching Bren and Tommy guns as, as well as entrenching tools and matched

they head past in single file, walking faster than the cipher team's truck is moving. matched

And there's a smell of mules and fuel and mud and dampness hangs heavy on the air. matched

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And they trundle on the town behind them, past woods and then ditches and embankments, occasional stone stone farmhouses. matched

And at 10:30 p.m. matched

they pass the gun positions who are already firing. matched

You can just see I I mean it's such a vivid picture, isn't it? matched

I mean, you can absolutely imagine it. matched

It's dark, it's raining. matched

You know, there are the guns, great orange flashes light the sky. matched

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