December 1940. Search Islands At War in your favourite podcast app or listen here.
In this episode we deal with the fate of Symes & Nicolle the two commandos and the civilians that helped them. Find out how they were treated and conditions in the prison.
You can find out about the prison here.
We also talk about the repercussions of the raid and how the local population feels about the raid.
Also in the show we look at RAF activity around the islands, a German aircraft crash, fortifications and address listeners questions. If you want to email in a question send it to occupied@gnetradio.com.
We talked about a guided walk in Sark by Tim’s Guided Walks on 25th May. Details here on how to book.
The Festung Guernsey books are available from online book shops.
The German aircraft that we talked about is here.
The books we referred to are:
Guernsey Occupation Diaries, 1940-45 – Author: Douglas Ord (ed. John Nettles)
The Commando Who Came Home To Spy – William Bell
We also mentioned the Channel Islands Occupation Society. You can find their website here.
Thanks to Gnet Radio for recording the podcast and thanks to Jim Delbridge for the use of his song ‘5 to 7’ as our theme.