Betty Webb spent the war working as a code breaker at Bletchley Park, working on captured German and Japanese radio messages.
After the war she moved to Washington DC to assist the Americans with their ongoing fight in the Pacific.
Betty joins Al and James to describe her extraordinary experiences.
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In the second part of our story of the Battle of Crete James and Al discuss the fighting retreat, the brilliant Cretan resistance and the accounts of the writer Evelyn Waugh, a veteran of the battle.
Brigadier George Chatterton’s memoirs, read by Al Murray, tell the extraordinary story of his time as a soldier for the British Army who then went on to become the Commander of the Glider Pilot Regiment during the Second World War.
James Holland speaks to US historian Paul Dickson, writer of ‘The Rise of the G.I. Army’, about how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped
In this bonus episode there’s a chance to hear Franklin D Roosevelt’s speech after Pearl Harbour as performed by American actor Chaz Mena. Legendary broadcaster Ed Murrow and World at War narrator Laurence Olivier also get a run out.