John Frost
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3,379 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6d ago
John Frost’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah,
Yes, it is a break.
Um, um, talking of which.
they are our most valuable weapon.
It's absolutely insane.
And when you think about his truculence when he's when he's put on a charge for losing his his pistol, you can see why whatever age he was, but when you realise he was only probably twenty-one at that point.
Fair enough, don't you think?
I mean Yeah, absolutely.
So so so the reconnaissance troops have a really important role in in Italy where where the terrain's a lot closer.
Uh and of course, by May 1944, Sam's a key member of this Rik recky unit because he's extremely experienced.
Yeah.
Um
Both as a trooper and a and a radio man.
Um he finds when he gets to Italy that they're immediately sent up to the the Dardem front.
So he's at the you know, he passes through Casino in the wreckage of Casino, he he goes up at the Via Casolino on the way to Rome, and really he's first starts sort of seeing action in the in the war north of Rome following the the catch of Rome on the fourth of June.
And he finds he feels absolutely no ill will to the Italians at all.
N none at all.
I mean, they have this this one thing, the other thing that they they're not prepared for as well, because when they've been in North Africa they haven't had lots of
people sort of all around them all the time.
You know, it's been Africa's been kind of quite sort of, you know, starved of s particularly in the western desert in Libya and Egypt's been starved of
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