This is Jockel Podcast number two sixteen with Echo Charles and me, a Jockel willing.

Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

In attack, most daring in defense, most cunning in endurance, most steadfast,

they performed a feat of arms, which will be remembered and recounted as long as the virtues

of courage and resolution have the power to move the hearts of men.

And that right there is Winston Churchill speaking in honor of the British first airborne

division at Arnhem. And he was actually making that statement on September 22nd, 1944,

in which the battle was not actually even over yet. And we did cover that fateful battle

on Podcast 94 from the book called Met at Arnhem by Jeffrey Powell.

And it's just it's an incredible book and an account of the British airborne division

in that battle where they lost almost 75% of its strength. And from that point on was

for all practical purposes, purposes out of the war.

So who were these men that made this stand? We saw one when we covered Jeffrey Powell's book,

but obviously there were thousands more each one of hero and also each one a a human being.

And I recently got a book in the mail that someone sent me. The book was written by one such man,

one such human being. The book is called the Memory Inders. And it was written by a man named

Reg Curtis. So let's go to this book and meet and learn and honor a hero of a human being.

Here we go. Chapter 1 is called Prelude to War. As a youth, I carried out milk.

I carried out a milk ground in the early morning and a newspaper round in the evening,

earning four shillings a week, which helped towards the cost of the special clothing I needed as

a choir boy at St. Augustine's Church near Grove Park Railway Station. When I left school in 1934 at

the age of 14, I got a job at Elliott Brothers, an electrical and mechanical engineers firm in

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