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When the bombing began on London in the August of 1940, we were organised by Captain into groups to scrub...
R A F both on leave had done the same thing, we were asked to dance by them, and met up afterwards...
I lived in London at Canning Town, London E.16 and Plaistow E.13 during WW2, going to Beckton Road Junior...
Topping it all was the wide leather belt with the large shiny buckle with the Blackshirt emblem. Joan had a...
Rose and Lily were tucked into the warm double bed and Granny wished them goodnight... That afternoon my...
When I walked out of the station at Putney, I was amazed to see not the usual gloom of the London blackout...
My brother and I had to go to bed at our usual time and it was horrible down the garden with the...
The planks were laid down and a bed made up for my two brothers. My parents decided to send me to Bedford...
My grandfather, Frederick "Blood" Reed, "Blood" being a nickname he picked up while in the...
He was taking his Wellington to RAF Wing near Leighton Buzzard, from there you could catch a train and be...
Regular training and practice in the art of extinguishing incendiary bombs with the piddling jet from a...
It was the summer of 1940 in London, I was eighteen and doing a bit of dusting in our front parlour when...
I was wretched in my homeland and my heart was heavy, picturing the equally wretched children scattered...
Cousins got married to soldiers and airmen and, together with a cousin who was the same age as me, I was a...
The Bureau acted as day and night link by phone and teleprinter between the Department in Evesham and the...
173Some sources put the figure at 178, but 173 is the figure given on a plaque at the station and is also...
Taking a packet from her bag she reached up, he opened the carriage door and greatfully took the...
De-fascism programme, Italy After treatment for shell-shock my father was judged not fit for active service...
From August 1939 on, he was at the Miscellaneous Weapons and Development Department of the Admiralty...
Amongst the unsung heroes, there will always remain in my memory a comrade by the name of Edward Bennett of...
I was 11 when the war broke out attending Wembley Hill School and often when the registar was call there...
In the early summer of 1944, I was one of some ten A.T.S. girls working in the War Office and living in...
In the far corner of the kitchen an incendiary bomb was crackling away showering whitish blue pieces over...
The V1, buzz bomb or doodlebug was another horror. Sometimes during the bombing, you'd lose your water...
After a while, we were removed to a large ‘bombproofed’ building in the centre of London when...
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