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On @newsofthewar.bsky.social, we've revelled in stories that aren't well known, 1939-45. We were keen to do a VC-special. But when @andyaitch.bsky.social realised he'd got unseen film of Ian Liddell VC - that was something else.
Here it is. The found footage of Ian Liddell VC.
As far as I know this footage has NEVER been seen publicly before.
Filmed on the 7/4/45, 4 days after the action on the bridge, and 2 weeks before he was killed.
He was called the officer that never lost his temper, I think you can see that here.
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Here it is. The found footage of Ian Liddell VC.
As far as I know this footage has NEVER been seen publicly before.
Filmed on the 7/4/45, 4 days after the action on the bridge, and 2 weeks before he was killed.
He was called the officer that never lost his temper, I think you can see that here.
✨And in this week's #NewsoftheWar, an exclusive - a VC story behind the headlines that's never told before!✨
Tune in to hear what's been discovered about Captain Ian Liddell VC, who was ordered to capture a bridge intact over the River Ems.
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What even is a Generalissimo anyway?
Daily Mirror 7th June 1944
Take that, fascists
Take that, Fritz!
Monty leading the way.
Manchester Evening News 7th June 1944.
Some young Tim Hiddleston action here, from the brilliant 2006 Victoria Cross Heroes series.
Hard to recreate the intensity of the fighting around Kohima, and they miss out the part where John Randle covers the embrasure with his own body to contain the grenade blast
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I can explain
Lt Col Phil Roden on Bruce’s charge:
“You could see his Bren gun held out and his big bottom swaying as he went with the momentum he was getting up, followed by Alan Avery. They were cheerful. They were going out on a picnic almost.”
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Ladies and gentlemen: Charles Hazlitt Upham VC and Bar.
This Is Your Life, 1985. Holy smokes.
Listen to how he got his VC here linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar
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✨And in this week's #NewsoftheWar, an exclusive - a VC story behind the headlines that's never told before!✨
Tune in to hear what's been discovered about Captain Ian Liddell VC, who was ordered to capture a bridge intact over the River Ems.
@andyaitch.bsky.social @merrynwalters.uk
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For our Australian friends, we also talked about Bruce (of course he’s called Bruce) Kingsbury VC…. The epitome of charging the enemy foreign the Bren from the hip at Isurava, PNG.
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🚨 VICTORIA CROSS SPECIAL 🚨
Join us tomorrow for part 1 of our long awaited VC special….
We’ve got ramming boats, explosive diarrhoea, clanking bombs and mine clearance in Ethiopia.
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COMING THIS FRIDAY
Our new series: THE GENERALISSIMOS
Who will our random generalissimo generator generate this week?
Tune into News Of The War Pod this Friday.
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Charles Hazlitt Upham VC & Bar, who served in Greece, Crete and the Western Desert. Incredible bravery,
Every recipient of the Victoria Cross has their likeness captured in portrait - a true likeness.
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Part 2 of our VC special is out this Friday….you’ve heard of the Arnhem VCs? Cain, Baskeyfield, Lord, Greyburn and Queripel.
Well, in the words of Yoda “there is another”
Tune in on Friday to News of the War
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