D-day memories
D-Day played a major part in securing victory for the allied forces at the end of WWII. This podcast has interviews with people who were there at the time, and gives eye witness accounts from two different perspectives.
The podcast also has other interviews and excerpts talking about the differences between pay, holiday, and
food now and during WWII. Ever thought about how your parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents coped with rationing during WWII? Or how much pay and leave they got? This podcast provides some fascinating insights.
This podcast uses audio clips recorded during a previous HWTMA project called Dive Onto Victory. The Dive Onto Victory project was initiated to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar. Between 2005 and 2007 diving investigation gathered information from a number of sites within Portsmouth Harbour. One site in particular, on the Gosport side of the Harbour, proved to be significant and, after survey, around 250 artefacts were recovered from the surface of the seabed. In addition to the archaeological investigations the project also sought to collect oral histories related to working on or with the sea. For more information, go to http://www.hwtma.org.uk/victory
Another HWTMA project you may be interested in is the Landing Craft project, funded by English Heritage. This project is enabling collaborative work between the HWTMA and Southsea Sub-Aqua Club to survey and record the remains of LCT(A) 2428, a World War Two landing craft that sank in the Eastern Solent in June 1944. For more information, go to: http://www.hwtma.org.uk/landingcraft.
Listening to the mp3 files
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DOWNLOAD:Â Podcast; D-day memories.