Islands at War
A Podcast about the occupation of the Channel Islands by German forces 1940 to 1945. Focusing on personal experiences of those that lived through it using diaries and our own research. Social, practical and military aspects of the occupation of the Channel Islands.
Join Keith Pengelley and Nick Le Huray as they talk you through the occupation month by month. Oh and we drop our own family stories in as well.
We will talk you through the occupation as it happened.
Questions welcome at occupied@gnetradio.com
Islands at War
June 1940 - Uncertainty, Refugees, Panic, Evacuation, Bombing Raids and Occupation!
In the June 1940 episode Keith and I talked about a couple of corrections and additional information from the pilot episode. Links to books and things we talked about are here.
Then we get on with the events of June 1940 about the run up to the German occupation of the Islands. This episode covers the refugees escaping through the islands, the part that Jersey played in Operation Ariel, bombing raids and much more.
You can find some links to events we talked about here.
The RAF raid we talked about.
Hurricane Girls & the Frenchman
Germans bomb the Channel Islands
Take a look and if you like it subscribe for free. Email us with questions or observations at occupied@gnetradio.com. Also on Twitter here and Facebook here. Nick's blog about the occupation is here.
The books we referred to are:
The Ord Diaries.
Guernsey Under German Rule Ralph Durand
The German Occupation of the Channel Islands - Cuickshank
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If you want to email in a question send it to occupied@gnetradio.com. Alternatively you can send us a text with the link at the bottom of these notes (only works with iPhones).
You can find out more about the occupation on Nick’s website Island Fortress here.
Thanks to Gnet Radio for recording the podcast and thanks to Jim Delbridge for the use of his song ‘5 to 7’ as our theme.
