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🔥 What ELSE happened in WW2?!
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🗞️ Headlines in hand, @AndyAitcheson & @rentaquill #NOTW

[NewsOfTheWar @newsofthewar]

RT @AndyAitcheson: Some young Tim Hiddleston action here, from the brilliant 2006 Victoria Cross Heroes series.

Hard to recreate the inte…

[Merryn @rentaquill]

On @NewsoftheWar pod, we've revelled in stories that aren't well known, 1939-45. We were keen to do a VC-special. But when @AndyAitcheson realised he'd got unseen film of Ian Liddell VC - that was something else.

[NewsOfTheWar @newsofthewar]

@olly2518 😆

[NewsOfTheWar @newsofthewar]

🚨 This week: Victoria Cross Special - Part II🚨
More stories from 1939 - 1945, VCs in the newspapers then (and a little bit now). Plus the part of one man's VC story that's ✨NEVER✨ been told before.

(Oh - and the forgotten Arnhem VC too)
@AndyAitcheson @rentaquill

[NewsOfTheWar @newsofthewar]

Found footage of a VC winner. Taken days after the action, before the award and before he was killed.

Find out more on today’s episode

https://t.co/uV47brsg50

[Andy @AndyAitcheson]

Here it is. The found footage of Ian Liddell VC.

As far as I know this footage has NEVER been seen publicly before.

Filmed on the 7th April 45, 4 days after the action on the bridge, and 2 weeks before he was killed.

He was called the officer that never lost his temper, I think you can see that here.

@ColdstreamGds @rentaquill

[NewsOfTheWar @newsofthewar]

✨And in this week's #NewsoftheWar, an exclusive - a VC story behind the headlines that's never told before!✨
Tune in to hear what's been discovered about Captain Ian Liddell VC, who was ordered to capture a bridge intact over the River Ems.
@AndyAitcheson @rentaquill

[NewsOfTheWar @newsofthewar]

There's one VC you've never heard of. Awarded to a man named Mitty. Walter Mitty. But you'll have to tune in to this week's episode of #NewsoftheWar to hear what he did to get that medal
https://t.co/uV47brsg50

[Merryn @rentaquill]

*adjusts colours, dangling from the mast*
Listeners to @newofthewar already know, I'm not wild about forgotten anything - but HOLYMOLEY. @AndyAitcheson and I shook loose our opinions in this two-parter on VCs.
More of that to come.
More specials, and more News of the War, too.🔥

[NewsOfTheWar @newsofthewar]

Part 2 of our VC special is out this Friday….you’ve heard of the Arnhem VCs? Cain, Baskeyfield, Lord, Greyburn and Queripel.

Well, in the words of Yoda “there is another”

Tune in on Friday to News of the War

https://t.co/uV47brsg50

@AndyAitcheson @rentaquill

[Andy @AndyAitcheson]

Lt Col Phil Roden on Bruce’s charge:

“You could see his Bren gun held out and his big bottom swaying as he went with the momentum he was getting up, followed by Alan Avery. They were cheerful. They were going out on a picnic almost.”

https://t.co/xSkH3bgNWV

[NewsOfTheWar @newsofthewar]

For our Australian friends, we also talked about Bruce (of course he’s called Bruce) Kingsbury VC…. The epitome of charging the enemy foreign the Bren from the hip at Isurava, PNG.

[NewsOfTheWar @newsofthewar]

🚨 The Victoria Cross. Not a new medal, but a new war.

HOW these events were reported in the news has had an impact on the perception of valour during WW2.

🔥This might be controversial🔥
@AndyAitcheson @rentaquill

[NewsOfTheWar @newsofthewar]

That was part one of our Victoria Cross special, folks.

Join us again next week for more News of the War!

[Andy @AndyAitcheson]

Ladies and gentlemen: Charles Hazlitt Upham VC and Bar.

This Is Your Life, 1985. Holy smokes.

Listen to how he got his VC here https://t.co/xSkH3bgNWV