Episode 10 Researching Your Bomber Command Ancestor
Send us a message or question! We answer the question we get asked most frequently - "How do I go about researching someone who served with RAF Bomber Command?" In this episode, we discuss how to re...
30 Jul 202459min
Episode 9 Behind the Scenes at the RAF Museum
Send us a message or question! Jane and James discuss their upcoming talks at the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Second World War History Festival in July, and introduce their guests, Dr. Megan Kel...
16 Jul 202448min
Episode 8 - Arthur Harris and Area Bombing, with Professor Alan Allport
Send us a message or question! In this conversation, Jane and James chat to historian and author Professor Alan Allport about the decision of the British cabinet to allow the RAF to start bombing Ge...
2 Jul 202447min
Episode 7 - The Avro Lancaster, with Dr Sarah-Louise Miller
Send us a message or question! Jane and James interview Dr. Sarah Louise Miller about her new book on the Avro Lancaster, The Lancaster Story. They discuss the significance of the Lancaster in RAF Bo...
18 Jun 202433min
Episode 6 Bomber Command and D-Day (extended episode)
Send us a message or question! In this episode, Jane and James discuss RAF Bomber Command's role in Operations Neptune and Overlord, initially focusing on the preparations for the invasion, particu...
4 Jun 20241h 5min
Episode 5 The Wuppertal Raid Pt 2 - Firestorm
Send us a message or question! WARNING: This episode contains graphic descriptions of war, death and injury which some listeners may find distressing. In this episode, Jane and James continue thei...
21 Mai 202436min
Episode 4 Planning a Bombing Operation: Wuppertal 1943 (Pt.1)
Send us a message or question! In this episode, Jane and James discuss the planning of the raid on Wuppertal on 29/30 May 1943. They explore the reasons why Bomber Command targeted the Ruhr Valley a...
7 Mai 202441min
Episode 3 Handley Page Halifax - A Flight Engineer's Story
Send us a message or question! 100 year old RAF veteran Tom Davidson shares his experiences of flying on a Halifax in 1944-1945. In this episode of Never Mind the Dam Busters, Jane and James disc...
27 Apr 202438min
