🎧 Eisenhower's Train Driver with Keith Joyce
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit • 21m
Keith Joyce's grandfather claimed that he had been General Eisenhower's train driver during the Second World War, and Keith has spent years trying to find the records that tell the story of the remarkable train and the remarkable man who drove it. Thumbnail image credit: Alan Wilson / Commons.
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