Tim Gray
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A Unique Podcast Focused on Interviews with World War II Veterans, Authors, Actors, Filmmakers and Those Who Are Telling and Sharing the Stories of World War II in Print, Television and in the Movies, both Past and in the Present.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
First-person testimony, wartime documents and operational detail give its World War II stories both human weight and tactical clarity.
From The Front To The Films: A World War II Podcast moves between produced documentary storytelling and focused interviews, keeping the war close to the people who experienced it.
A tin bread box full of forged IDs pulls you into wartime history through one family's unanswered questions.
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A preserved village turns survivor memory into a stark, absorbing WWII listen.
The episode treats Oradour-sur-Glane as a living wound, not a museum stop. Robert Hebra's return to the village gives the story its weight, and the presence of his granddaughter keeps that memory from staying fixed in the past.
A bread box opens into resistance, deception, and wartime memory.
Dad's Secret War opens with a child finding a hidden cache in an off-limits tin bread box: passports in different names, codes, silk maps, forged papers, and a 45 with clips.
A stark, humane Iwo Jima portrait shaped by memory, letters, and one survivor's long afterlife.
A Final Landing on Iwo Jima follows Ed Cavallini back to the Black Sands, where memory, letters, and Jane's presence make the battle feel immediate and personal.
A sailor's memories carry LST 540 from France toward the Pacific, where duty becomes a personal record of endurance.
Miles Isbell's war is told through movement: aboard LST 540, he lands troops in France, returns with prisoners and wounded, then crosses the North Atlantic and moves through the Panama Canal zone toward the Pacific.
A Navy veteran's memories connect childhood loss, Pacific service, Okinawa, and the human cost of war.
Frank Wall Jr.'s story brings the Pacific war into close, personal focus, moving from the early loss of his mother to Navy service across Okinawa, Buckner Bay, Tinian, and the shadow of the Indianapolis.
A focused look at how mountain training and improvised logistics shaped the 10th Mountain Division at Riva Ridge.
The 10th Mountain Division comes through as a force defined less by legend than by the practical work of moving, climbing, and fighting in Italy. Dr. Lance R. Blythe, command historian of NORAD and U.S.
Outnumbered units, remembered under fire.
Battle maps, war films, and patient context.
War news, tested against military reality.
Antique European history, read aloud.
From The Front To The Films: A World War II Podcast follows Ed Cavallini and Charlie Dickey back to Iwo Jima, where the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions landed on February 19, 1945.
Dad's Secret War: France 1944 follows Jean-Claude Guillet, whose five-year-old son opened an ornate tin bread box packed with passports, code sheets, silk maps, and a .45 pistol with four clips.
From The Front To The Films: A World War II Podcast centers on Oradour-sur-Glane, the French village where 643 residents were killed on June 10, 1944, and Charles de Gaulle later ordered the ruins preserved.
From The Front To The Films, a World War II Foundation podcast hosted by John Fenzel, follows Miles Isbell from Pontiac, Michigan, to LST 540 and the end of his Navy service.
Frank Wal Jr. says he enlisted at 17 because he “didn’t want to miss being part of history.”
Riva Ridge was taken with five counterattacks beaten back and 10.5 tons of ammunition hauled uphill.