Weaponry and Equipment

Looking Back On Life

The crew of the Duncan left Tobermoray with feelings of relief, for after surviving all the antics of...

Life in the Services 1939-46, Chapter 4

We then pressed on to La Goulette, where I found myself with a Petty Officer and two other ratings in the...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 1

This combined initial intake to the two RE OCTU's of 86 young men represented the Royal Engineers...

Wartime Memoirs of a Lark

There, military or civilian police would ensure the disposal of Germans to a POW holding wing, or in the...

To Sleep Perchance To Dream

This time as a proper Scout Platoon in our Bren Gun Carriers, the Motor Platoons in their 15 hundred weight...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 6

7 THE SUMMARY OF MARLENE'S STORY — In London, she details her early memories of being shuttled...

I was Guy Gibson's Friend and Worked on the First Radar Navigation and Early H25 TV and the Pathfinders Squadron

I was Guy Gibson's Friend and Worked on the First Radar Navigation and Early H25 TV and the Pathfinders...

Naval Service World War2

After a month here doing drill, field-training and learning the requirements to be a Naval Airman we moved...

X-Craft Diver 1943 - Part 5

For me the A/S nets held no fears; I had clambered about on them in Loch Corrie, and on a chariot gone...

War Memoirs of Reginald Kenneth Probst (part 3)

Maggie's sister was getting married in London and it was a rush early one morning, leaving Elswick...

The Whirligig of Time

I have seen a Rear-Admiral leave a tank landing craft via a ladder, from her fo'c'sle to the beach,...

So you want to be a flier - An air gunner's story - Part 3: Chapters 11 to 12a

The Wing Commander Flying convened a meeting and each Section Leader reported their availability, from...

X-Craft Diver 1943 - Part 9

Jack had ordered periscope depth, and was studying, through one of them, the effects of the towing manilla...

X-Craft Diver 1943 - Part 7

Geordie Nelson, X5's diver, then came to talk with, me. At once I imagined the diver there in the half...

Lawrence's War Memoirs Part 2

Before the war, Burma was a British colony and had forestry companies to harvest the teak trees, and...

X-Craft Diver 1943 - Part 12

I think Jack muttered 'Christ!' under his breath and turned away. We were welcomed inboard by Jack...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 11

Three months later, General Bill Slim's 14th Army invasion of Burma was pre-empted by the Japanese 15th...

X-Craft Diver 1943 - Part 8

As I took my seat, I studied them closely: could they be in the pay of the enemy, not real army officers,...

France 1940

Soon Edwin and another man were sent by the Sergeant to fetch an ammo box containing the magazines for the...

My World War Two memories of life in Coventry.

The contract for my apprenticeship seemed to count for nought, and I was offered a place in the drawing...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 3

The Divisional Camouflage officer insisted that as work on one bunker would stand out on German aerial...

X-Craft Diver 1943 - Part 11

Jack Smart had complained about the porpoising, now we knew, with a vengeance, what he meant, for we were...

Radio Installations in Fishing Boats to Ferry Agents to Occupied Europe

Meanwhile our French fishing boat was repainted in naval grey off Tresco and would return to the Helford...

Memories of WWII in Industry

This information was gleaned from my wife's brother who was employed as the Chief Engineer for...

Ben Waters: Six years in the RNVR.

Ben, as a Flotilla Officer, travelled on board the ‘A'6, which was captained by Lieutenant John...

Lawrence's War Memoirs Part 1

It must have been winter because it was terribly cold, so when one day a notice appeared on the...