An incident at North Weald airfield 1940-41. Maybe at Duxford....
109362347319358753723_1.jpglanded_plane.jpgWaiting for take-off, 1940-41....
Doodle Bugs Ihad many close encounters with Doodle-Bugs,Hitler VI Flying Bombs. What woke me up, I...
I was born in the then rural Essex village of South Woodham Ferrers in 1944 and therefore have no personal...
The Village in Wartime Bert Collis — Anti-tank Gun In Great Baddow there was an anti-tank gun...
John Jackson — ATC and after Dad had the garage in Church Street, Great Baddow, and my brother Ted...
Bangs, Bombs and Blackout Reg Spalding. Reg Spalding wrote of the damage at Meadgate Farm in his journal:...
I was aged 13 in 1941/42, and I moved to Epping because we were too close to the Weald Aerodrome... Whilst...
I worked in an office in a dairy in Baddow Road but when we were 18 all youngsters were called up and...
We used to plot aircraft coming over. We mapped on a big round table on which was a map of the British...
Memories of Time in Land Army, West Mersea....
Everyone fled for shelter beneath the stairs, except me who was left alone in my cot to face the spite and...
The bomber pilot, Douglas Badar and all of his crew, were just down the road from where I was living in...
WW2 Memories from Hornchurch. We lived in Hornchurch, Essex....
My brother and I were larking about in a locked car at Brentwood Station when a Dorner dropped bombs which...
In about 1941 I worked in the PX canteen at Earls Colne Airfield....
Tilbury was flooded with the army, tanks, everything....
Does any one rember the hit .and run raid that shot up the gas works in romford then went on to shoot...
This picture of the boys with teacher was taken by a newspaper reporter on the occasion when our teacher,...
These are the girls evacuated from Chalkwell School, Southend-on-Sea to Smalley, Derbyshire. Shirley and...