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Bombs and V1's-you were no safer in the army.

Bombs and V1's-you were no safer in the army. While doing my army training later on in the war in...

No Pilots

My father, George, was invalided home from Algiers in 1944 and posted to The Isle of Wight. He had seen the...

All night on the bus

We got on the Greenline and we got on the bus at Algate to come home... We had to stay all night...

Body Consious

I was a clippie on the southdown busses through the war. one sunny day the bus was just getting into...

My memory of V.E. Day is

I was among the thousands of people singing and dancing in the Mall. I can still bring to mind the two...

EVACUATION

Which was I sat for my Scholarship in the loft of a pub The Lamb in Warminster, which is not there any...

My early years

I was born on the 13/12/1938 in London... The Hospital was about 3 miles from Northolt airadrome we could...

My view of WW2

This introductory phase has taken longer than I expected....

Exams in the shelter

In 1944 I had to take my school certificate and we took the entire exams down in the shelters so we...

Blackout Blues.

I was waiting on the platform at the train station to return home as I'd been visiting my girlfriend....

Christmas card home 1944

VE Day Research

I am currently researching people's experiences of VE Day in the East Midlands and would love to hear...

the story of winston churchill

the story of winston churchill...

Any luck jet?

Nurses at work in the casualty receiving station, 1939

Temporary wartime accommodation in the basement of King George V Surgical Block....

The end of the war

I was walking back from shopping in Erith my mum when someone told us that the Germans had surrendered and...

Heavy Rescue London WW II

My father, Herbert Broom, was a member of the Heavy Rescue in London during WW II. I Am enclosing a picture...

i was 8

i was 8...

london evacuee

Our family lived in Mansion St., close by Camberwell Green,S.E.London, at the start of WW2....

The Edge of the Blitz

One Bomb Two Many

I left school at the age of 14 and war was declared about two weeks later.At that time my father had just...

GCSE History

GCSE History

GCSE History

General memories

Holding- to be written....

Eastend wartime kids

Come on Elsie, come on Johnny, the raid has started again, get down the shelter, shouted Mum....