For You The War Is Over

For You The War Is Over follows Flight Lieutenant James Leslie Robert 'Cookie' Long of 9 Squadron Royal Air Force and uses Chris Pearson's family link to Stalag Luft III, including a signed 1942 menu with Alec Wright, as its anchor.

["Dave and Tony speak with Rafe Bethel, son of Flight Lieutenant Richard Anthony Tony Bethell of 268 Squadron Royal Air Force, about a life that runs from Dar es Salaam to Stalag Luft 3.", "Rafe describes a childhood built around Gibraltar, boarding school in Canterbury and Dorset, and long Union Castle crossings between Africa and England.", "The war section covers RAFVR training in Americas, Georgia, Mustang sorties over the Dutch coast from Snailwell, the two-kill attack that took two minutes, and the capture near Alkmaar.", "The episode closes with Stalag Luft 3, the Great Escape tunnels, the Long March, and the postwar path through rugby, finance, Montreal, and Caledon Hospice House in Ontario."]

For You The War Is Over traces Flight Lieutenant Michael Casey from Allahabad to Stalag Luft III and the Great Escape.

Tony's updated biography tracks Alastair 'Sandy' Gunn from Deansland in Octorada to a Spitfire sortie over Norway and the Great Escape.

For You The War Is Over follows Alfred Burke Thompson, a Royal Air Force officer whose POW story runs from a 1939 bailout to Stalag Luft III and the Long March.

For You The War Is Over examines Flight Lieutenant William James Cameron’s wartime service, capture, and participation in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft 3.

For You The War Is Over examines Cyril Douglas Swain, an RAF Flight Lieutenant whose family business produced 2,000 to 3,000 Cheshire cheeses weekly in Shropshire.

For You The War Is Over reconstructs Robert Campbell Stewart’s life from his 1911 birth in Finsbury Park to his service as a navigator with RAF 77 Squadron.

For You The War Is Over examines Squadron Leader Thomas Robert Nelson’s wartime escape story through an interview with his son Patrick.

For You The War Is Over: The Great Escape - Dick Churchill presents David and Roger Churchill’s account of their father, Flight Lieutenant Richard Sidney Albion Churchill of 144 Squadron.

For You The War Is Over examines Flight Lieutenant Jack Grissman's RAF career, German radio-navigation work, and escape attempts with historian Jackson Van Uden.

For You The War Is Over follows Flight Lieutenant Patrick Wilson Langford from his 1919 birth in Edmonton, Alberta, through Royal Canadian Air Force training and the Great Escape.

For You The War Is Over examines Flight Lieutenant Roy Brouard Longley's RAF career, his 5 August 1941 Wellington landing near Antwerp, and his escape through Belgian resistance networks.

For You The War Is Over examines the life of Flight Lieutenant George Edward McGill, a Toronto-born chemical engineering student and athlete who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940.

For You The War Is Over follows Clement Aldwyn Neville McGarr, a South African pilot whose Tomahawk was shot down near Sidi Omar on 6 October 1941.

For You The War Is Over examines Flight Lieutenant Paul Gordon Royal’s capture in France on May 17, 1940, and his long captivity in Stalag Luft 1 and Stalag Luft 3.

For You The War Is Over examines Flight Lieutenant Edgar Humphreys, a 107 Squadron Blenheim pilot captured after a December 1940 raid and later selected for the 1944 Stalag Luft 3 escape.

For You The War Is Over examines Flying Officer Dennis Street’s RAF career, capture after a 29 March 1943 Berlin raid, and participation in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft 3.

For You The War Is Over examines Leslie Brodrick’s RAF career, from Territorial Army searchlights and Texas flight training to 106 Squadron Lancaster operations under Wing Commander Guy Gibson.

For You The War Is Over examines Edward Gordon Brettel's path from Surrey motor racing to RAF Spitfire operations with 133 Eagle Squadron.

For You The War Is Over examines Belgian RAF pilot Henri Picard’s path from 1916 childhood near Brussels to Stalag Luft 3.

For You The War Is Over examines Polish Flying Officer Adam Kolanowski's service, capture, and participation in the 1944 escape from Stalag Luft III.

John Müller recounts his father Jens Müller’s path from a 1917 birth in Shanghai to Norwegian pilot service and capture after a 1942 mission over the Belgian coast.

This episode explores the life and escape of Warrant Officer Sotiris Skantzikas, a Greek airman involved in the Great Escape during World War II.

An interview with Lawrence Green about his grandfather Flight Lieutenant Bernard Green's WWII escape from a prisoner of war camp.

This episode of For You The War Is Over explores the life and escape of Flight Lieutenant Sidney Hastings-Dowles, with guests Sir Brian May and Denis Pellerin discussing stereoscopy.

The episode discusses Gordon Kidder's experiences as a Pathfinder and navigator during World War II, including his involvement in the Great Escape.