International Friendships

Ice Cream in War Time

We lived next to the Cambridge Hotel, which was very big and had two large car parks.This was where we...

Fetching the Pram

During the war I lived close to the Thurleigh Airfield... Occasionaly the men drank so much they had to...

Dancing to Glenn Miller

There were 25 of us land girls at Moat House hostel in St Margaret South Elmham and there was an American...

Some Memories of a 7 Year Old Boy

The Americans were based in Cornwall and many of them worked at “Nickle's Garage” at the...

Podington Air Base

My Grandad, Ernie, owned a farm in Bedfordshire, and the Americans chose his farm land for an air base....

The American Club in Northampton's Market Square

The Yanks used to bring us sweets and cakes and things for Mum to make, because in those days you could...

The Free French in Scotland

All the big houses were used as billets for army officers: a group of Free French Army officers were...

The Clock On Brownlow Hill, Part 2

We jived and we waltzed and had quite a ball On the pavement outside what once once the Chinese Dance Hall....

War Bride

My mother was a war bride from Belgium with the First World War... The police used to call to the house at...

Working with the enemy

Nearby we had a prisoner of war camp which had both German and Italian soldiers in it. I never had any...

Meeniyan Stores, Gippsland, Australia

Towards the end of WW2 and the War in the Far East was dying down my late Mother's Cousins in Australia...

The Full Circle

In the morning the German was asking where my dad was and when he was told he wept... God Bless you Dad...

How I found out that the War had ended

They told us that Winston churchill would be making a speech later on. As I got off the tram and walked...

Hedgehogs and Bread

There were a lot of Italian POW's based at the village of Somerton. Eventually there were 50 or so...

War Time Experiences in Great Yarmouth by Joan Andrews

When Mason's Laundry got hit my mother did all the washing for the boys....

The Special Constable

Donald remembers that the three main groups of men stationed in and around Kirriemuir during the war were...

Present From America

The dispatch to Angel Road School came from The Mayor, Citizens and Children of Boston, Massachusetts and...

And He Told Me He Messed About With Chemicals

I mess around with chemical like this," he replied in his soft Canadian brogue... Some years later I...

American Forces

American Forces...

The First Time I Met the American Airforce

After that I was sent to Burmah with 132 RSU where we used to repair damaged aircraft, or had been lost in...

A Christmas Kindness

I picked up one of her coppies of Woman's Weekly and the star letter was from a lady who said her...

Memories of the GIs in the Cotswolds

Dancing was our main pastime and the dancers were held mainly in camp so of course trucks were sent round...

Growing Up

My mother was in the WVS, located opposite Westleton Green supporting the troops the Westleton Common; they...

Leicester Memories

Having been born in 1934 I was very young at the start of ww2 My memories would start around 1941 My father...

My American Friend

I met Michael at Convent Garden Opera House when they had dancing there... The three of us would go every...

Our Interview with Betty Skinner

She was walking home from the cinema and when she got to the gate a soldier shouted out “ Friend or...