History - Ralph's Dad and World War Two - An Amazing Story!

Get ready for this amazing story! In today’s episode I speak again to Ralph James. We follow up on our previous podcast with an in-depth discussion of his father’s remarkable experiences during the Second World War, across many theatres of war and including torpedo and Kamikaze attacks!

We chat about
-              Life as a Captain’s Steward.
-              Air Raid Precautions (ARP) service before the Royal Navy.
-              Blitz experiences.
-              Being on an Aircraft Carrier in the Battle of the Atlantic.
-              Being torpedoed.
-              Sailing with Winston Churchill.
-              Liverpool and the War.
-              Experiences in North America.
-              Rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars.
-              Sailing to Ceylon.
-              South Africa and the ‘Bootle Villa’!
-              Racial Discrimination. 
-              Prickly Heat and Bat Eclipses in Sri Lanka.
-              Kamikaze attack!
-              The lessons of war.
-              Wider discussions of war, ethics, humanity and resistance.
-              ‘Winning the Peace’.
-              Contemporary authoritarianism. 
-              And so much more…

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