Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was the head of the Réseau Alliance - the largest French Resistance Intelligence Network in France during WWII - providing essential information to the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6). She was unique and her story in my view is unmatched. In this episode we hear of her train journey through the Pyrenees to meet MI6 in Madrid, her questioning by the Vichy government, the escape of General Giraud from France to join General Eisenhower, her first arrest and escape and of the expansion of her Alliance Network up until January 1943.

Actual voices of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade and her MI6 attaché Kenneth Cohen, MI6 Wireless Operator Ferdinand Rodriguez and Alliance Agent Jean Boutron.

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Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was the head of the Réseau Alliance - the largest French Resistance Intelligence Network in France during WWII - providing essential information to the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6). She was unique and her story in my view is unmatched. In this episode we hear of her colourful early life in Shanghai, Morocco and Paris and the beginnings of the Alliance Network up until December 1941.

Actual voices of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade and her MI6 attaché Kenneth Cohen.

Podcast written, narrated and produced by Gary Weight.

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Penicillin was available and issued to the Allies in time for D-Day. It undoubtedly saved thousands of lives and post-war became the most important drug of the 20th Century. But how was Penicillin discovered and what part did it play in World War II? Professor Sarah Gurr explains.

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Special Guest: Professor Sarah Gurr.

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Trooper Cecil Newton served as a gunner and loader with the British 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, an armoured regiment of the 8th Armoured Brigade attached to the British 50th Infantry Division and later the Guards Armoured Division. He landed in Normandy on D-Day in an amphibious Sherman Duplex-Drive (DD) Tank five minutes prior to the infantry in order to give fire-support to the assault wave. He then battled through Normandy and Belgium until he was wounded in Holland. This episode is Part III of Cecil’s story and covers Belgium and Holland in 1944 plus he revisits Cristot in Normandy. Told in Cecil's own words.

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Special Guest: Cecil Newton.

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Trooper Cecil Newton served as a gunner and loader with the British 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, an armoured regiment of the 8th Armoured Brigade attached to the British 50th Infantry Division. He landed in Normandy on D-Day in an amphibious Sherman Duplex-Drive (DD) Tank five minutes prior to the infantry in order to give fire-support to the assault wave. He then battled through Normandy and Belgium until he was wounded in Holland. This episode is Part II of Cecil’s story and covers from D-Day through to the end of his Battle of Normandy. Listen to Cecil tell his Trooper's Tale in his own inimitable way.

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Special Guest: Cecil Newton.

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World War II D-Day veteran Trooper Cecil Newton served as a gunner and loader with the British 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, an armoured regiment of the 8th Armoured Brigade attached to the British 50th Infantry Division. He landed in Normandy on D-Day in an amphibious Sherman DD Tank five minutes prior to the infantry in order to give fire-support to the assault wave. He then battled through Normandy and Belgium until he was wounded in Holland. This episode is Part I of Cecil’s story and covers up to and including D-Day.

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Special Guest: Cecil Newton.

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Tech 5 Sam J. Amico served as an Airborne Medic with the American 326th Airborne Medical Company of the 101st Airborne Division. He landed in Normandy on D-Day, in Holland on the first day of Operation Market Garden and was in The Battle of the Bulge. This is Sam's story from his unpublished autobiography.

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Voice narration of Sam Amico by Matt Schauf.

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Introduction Episode for Your Papers Please Podcast. The home for lesser known and individual stories of World War Two. Brought to you by internationally recognised battlefield guide and historian Gary Weight of Pegasus Battlefield Tours.

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