WW2 Unforgotten Stories

It wasn't until India Sturgis interviewed her grandfather that her family knew the full extent of his contribution to the war effort. After India’s recount of how the story of her grandfather’s efforts lives on with her we meet Major John Sturgis himself.

An organisation of Nepalese soldiers, the Gurkhas have fought in the British Army for the last 200 years. Alex Pope from the Gurkha Welfare Trust reveals Bhaktasing Pun’s story.

John Jellicoe Blair was one of almost 500 Black Caribbean air crew in the RAF during the Second World War. Mark Johnson talks about his great-uncle.

The wooden de Havilland Mosquito was the fastest plane in the world at the time of the Second World War and just so happens to be comedian Tony Law's favourite aircraft.

Edward Dixon was part of the heroic squad that liberated Dachau concentration camp. We hear from Edward and how his story lives on with his son, Johnston Dixon.

This was a Dad's Army of silent killers and saboteurs. Alongside an accountant, a bank manager, and a salesman, bricklayer Stanley Hayes was a member of a secret auxiliary unit trained in covert guerrilla warfare to resist a Nazi invasion and occupation. Quentin Hayes reveals his grandfather’s story.