Axis Forces

Working with the German Navy (Part 3 of 3)

However it was a rule that the German officers had to salute the British officers. I was horrified one day...

Remembering the German Victims of World War Two

These are the visit to the Caen Memorial Museum on Sunday 6th June 2004 by the German Chancellor Gerhard...

I was in the German Army and captured by the English!

A GERMAN'S POINT OF VIEW My name is Otto Damm, I was born in Steinweiler, near Karlsruhe on the Rhine....

Story of a Reluctant SS-Pioneer Part 5

Perhaps to some people it may seem odd , but I speak the truth and if my story tends to balance out...

An Italian Prisoner of War Remembers Somerset

Eventually he arrived at a PoW camp just outside the village of Goathurst, near Bridgwater, in Somerset; at...

A German POW in France - and a resulting Friendship

One grandfather, having lost an eye in the North African campaign and later surviving eight years in a...

A Spy in the House

Our neighnours at no.100 were a middle aged couple,the husband a retired police detective.All households in...

War Service 'An Unusual Experience' Conclusion

Whilst the Siamese had joined the Japanese in declaring war on Britain they had not declared war on the...

Three Ex-Servicemen Reminisce

He was to take it to Brize Norton into RAF service and was being towed by a Sterling bomber... It grew dark...

Friendship

Travelling around at that time was very restricted, so we did not get to see much of East Germany other...

Lost in the Mist or Fog !!

It was ‘found’ by two RAF Hurricanes who fired warning shots and headed the plane towards the...

Air Raid Recollections of WW2

The other crew members from the plane were Feldwebel Franz Olssen - Navigator, Gefreiter Hans Schiealinski...

The War of Two Sailors part three

One which landed close to LST 63 caused minor damage but Harold and other members of the crew were able to...

The War of Two Sailors part four

One week after D-Day, Emil was sent to the Channel Islands where they lived on board their boat and carried...

Bill's Story

The Russians were in the Ukraine for about 2 years when war broke out between Germany and Russia, and then...

An Experience of the Hamburg Blitz

When my mother was a young woamn - she trained as an opera singer - she won a scholarship to the Hamburg...

Choosing the Right Side (at Bergen Camp): Hungarian Soldiers in Germany

"Unfortunately, very few people know that in the spring of 1945 the I/lI nd Tank Regiment of Jaszbereny...

The Camera Never Lies: Finds of an RAF Photographer

As the phoney war disappeared and more and more German aircraft were involved in combat with the Armee...

German in the Garden

I got into the garden and came face to face with a German....

D Day Operation - Gerry McMahon

Gerry McMahon, was serving as a flying officer rear-gunner when his four engine Short Stirling bomber was...

How an Enemy Pilot Unwittingly Helped My Babies in WW2

The War of Two Sailors part two

January 1943 Harold was then sent from Portsmouth to join a transport liner “Empress of Japan”...

The War of Two Sailors part five

August 28th 1948 Twenty three year old Harold Ernest Williams married Marjorie Edna King on the day before...

The Crash of a Messerschmitt ME210 at Sunnyside Farm, Fylingdales on Sunday 6th September 1942 at 11.45 am.

I was 15 years old in 1942 and had been residing at 'Holme Denel, New Thorpe, Robin Hood's Bay...

Mareth from the Wrong End

I have been in the Mareth and Wadi Akarit battles as an artillery Lt. in an Italian Battery of old 75/27...

My Parents's House Was Near a Barn in 1940

Later, the farmer and my uncle returned to the meadow and its cowshed to have a look to the cows... Guy...