German aeroplanes were expected at any time, bringing gas and explosive bombs... The local council...
On the field, the duty officer would decide the runway direction and instruct the electrician accordingly....
Friday morning 1st Sept. arrived — we loaded the buses to take us to Hockley Heath station —...
It didn't take Professor Jones to discover that number 51 was Wolverhampton, 52 was Birmingham and...
There were only six of us in the W.A.A.F. who were home for demobilisation, the rest being A.T.S. girls, so...
So I ended up at Manders Paint Works in Well Lane, Wednesfield working for ICI which had taken over this...
With the ferocity of the London Blitz, my grandmother and her children were evacuated to the West Midlands,...
Our final destination was Bell Hall in the village of Belbroughton. Bell Hall was like being in an...
I enjoyed driving, and I felt that I was doing something useful, and what's more I was stationed in a...
One of my funniest memories of being in the army was when I was injured. I really enjoyed my days in the...
Mavis, " I thought that my father had been killed at one point as bombs had been dropped very near his...
I think I was dressing up in my mother's long dress and, like I say, I shot into the pantry as if...
Then, Dad - he only used to work across the road at the ECC - and he used to go firewatching in...
As we dashed through the back door of the house, my father rushing ahead to open the door of the air raid...
During a dark December night in 1942 and whilst on duty for the home guard manning an ack-ack ant-aircraft...
Somebody started to walk into Wolverhampton town and we all followed them... We were all together from the...
My father would keep a book in which he wrote who had had the last special food eg tinned food so all...
I joined the ARP as a messenger boy and I remember when Coventry was being bombed I was sent to the Rock...
One evening I was instructed to meet a police car, and I was then driven with 3 other officers towards Penn...
As a small boy of eight years walking to school, I saw a German bomber... It turned out to be a stray...