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The Vehicle Depot

Ammunition dumps at Broadmoor, Abinger Common being used as an open air Ammunition Dump. Roads around...

Buzz Bomb Baby

My second baby, Heather, was born in 1944 with 'buzz bombs' dropping all around... I eventually...

Is There a Bomb in our Village Pond.

We lived in a village some fifteen miles south of London called Burgh Heath and were, therefor, in a direct...

Young Henry's War

It covers the period 1940, when I was 10 years old, until 1947 when I joined the RAF as a Boy Entrant....

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The Bombing of Croydon Airport

The bombs hit Croydon Airport which was at that time a fighter drome....

Survival Underground

Long corridors of underground air-raid shelters had benn constructed under the shool playground... Although...

Memories of ny life in WW2

Memories of my life - born 1918, to when I was a soldier in the Second World ......

Spiders

We lived in Kingston and were in the shelter one night when my mother saw a great big spider!.. My mother...

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Shrapnel found in Caterham, Surrey...

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