The WW2 Podcast

184 - My Road to Mandalay

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Don Townsend joined the British army as a private in 1940 and saw service in Egypt, then India and Burma. After five years of active service he left the army as a Major.

I'm joined by Don's son, David has compiled his father's wartime letters home to his family and future wife into the book My Road to Mandalay.

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