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In today's episode, I'm talking to Matt Poole.

Matt's mother is from Liverpool.

Her first husband was in the Ari F

serving in Burma when he was shot down over Rangoon.

In trying to find out what happened that night, Matt was introduced to Bill

Kirkness, who served in the same squadron. Bill had written a memoir of his wartime experience.

Though Bill has now sadly passed away,

Matt has edited and expanded upon the manuscript

turning it into the book

REF Liberators Overbur. the episode we're going to be discussing Bill Kirkness's War, the RAF in Burma, and Matt's journey

of piecing the story together. But before we get started, I thought I'd just like to make you aware

of the great extra podcasts I've been able to make available this year.

It started with me asking Bob Fawcick the counterfactual question of if France could have carried on the fight from

North Africa in 1940. It's a great extra 30 minutes of discussion and you can find it at Patreon.com slash W2

podcast and it's available for patrons of the podcast. After speaking to Bob I talked to Patrick about a loafwaifer in Europe.

Many of the topics overlap so I thought I'd ask him about Bob's ideas on what might have

happened if the British had sent more planes to

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