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Parachute Pyjamas

I would go into the backyard with a friend and we'd take turns to stand on a chair and do each...

A Wren at King's Cross

I am writing this on behalf of Mrs Joyce Frayne, nee Charlton. Yours sincerely, Mrs Joyce Frayne, nee...

Aeroplanes attack and Churchill nearly shot.

Aeroplanes attack and Churchill nearly shot. The day before she was born a German aeroplane came down just...

Selling Bombs as Souvenirs

One day I was working on the south side and whilst being ferried across the river, my friend and I saw an...

An Almoner's Tale

The patients were interviewed and if they needed in-patient treatment they were then sent down by bus to...

HALIFAX BOMBERS

Stoke Newington High Street had a line of shops behind which were flats - mostly jewish people - another...

A Lady Shoots at Doodlebugs

I served in the ATS in Northern Ireland in a heavy anti-aircraft unit — 141 HAA Regiment, 493...

Churchill almost shot!

The day before she was born a German aeroplane came down just at the back of where we lived; we had bits...

The blitz gives way to the doodlebugs

Many years after the war a neighbour in Kenton where we now live told me that a local man who had fascist...

The Train Experience

When the Doodle Bugs were landing too close for comfort the parents said, if the children were fit and...

a chance encounter

Dad, Leon Andresier served in the RAF and around 1942, was stationed in Ceylon. Archibold McIndoe, a...

GEORGE LEFTWICH'S TELEGRAPH STORY DURING THE COLD WAR

During the 1950s at the London Office of C & W we received long messages from a secret source which...

RADAR DUTY

I was trained at Yatesbury and sent to the radar-station at Dunnet Head... One time, whilst on duty, we...

The Bomb and the Egg

The object, a sort of flying bomb, made a "Brrrhing-Popping" noise and got louder and louder....

My War Memories

Looking out of the window on my right, I saw a flying bomb travelling beside us at a slightly faster speed...

UNDER THE ARCHES.

Old Ma Gosling Rings the bell We cross the tramlines Sireens yell And searchlights weave Their sky high...

Thames River Buses

During the war I lived in North West Kent, I worked in Whitehall in the building which is now the Foreign...

Daughter of a Surgical Instrument Maker, WWII

The family were in the Anderson shelter at the time, but mum's friend had nipped back for her hair...

blood on the stairs

I was a nurse during the war at Swansea general one night it had a direct hit and we had to empty...

Keeping Mosquitos In The Air

Before joining the RAF at 17`1/2 yrs old, I was evacuated with my brother and sister from Finsbury Park to...

Memories of the first V1's In London

Babysitting

The following year I joined the ATS, for the next five and a half years I was at Bulford in Wiltshire the...

V1 story

Wartime tyres were not very good owing to the shortage of rubber. I remember a Dunlop cycle tyre, unless my...

Snippets

My uncle George was married to a German woman, Clara. He told me his story for this website and, as a...

Wartime Interlude

I joined the WAAF in Huddersfield and trained as a clerk in the Master Provisions Office on Morecombe...

Our House Was Flattened In the Night

It was very close to Northolt Airport I was eight and it was 1939... Because of the vicinity of the Airport...