85 Bill Turner POW Cockleshell Heroes WW2
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How the Cockleshell Heroes upset Nazi supply lines with canoes! How a British Royal Fusilier survived  for 3 years as a German POW. More great unpublished history!   Support the Cockleshell 2022 team for December 22 and donate to the Royal British Legion:  https://bit.ly/CockleshellFightingThrough Paul Britton, Senior reporter at Manchester Evening News.  Twitter: @PaulBrittonMEN Facebook: www.facebook.com/PaulBrittonjournalist Cockleshell article in Manchester Evening News: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/following-in-the-footsteps-of-24453884 Cockleshell article BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12914628 On This Day Australian military history - Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OTDAustralianMilitaryHistory/ Donate To Salvation Army Ukraine Crisis Appeal https://bit.ly/FightingThroughSalvationArmy Red Cross/ Disasters Emergency Committee https://bit.ly/FightingThroughRedCross Full show notes, photos and transcript at: www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/85-Bill-Turner-POW-and-Cockleshell-Heroes-WW2 Reviews on main website: https://www.fightingthroughpodcast.co.uk/reviews/new/ Apple reviews: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ww2-fighting-through-from-dunkirk-to-hamburg-war-diary/id624581457?mt=2 Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulCheall Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FightingThroughPodcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnlqRO9MdFBUrKM6ExEOzVQ?view_as=subscriber
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